Tag: Boca Beacon

GIBA reports on traffic decrease, toll card extensions

SUBMITTED BY THE GASPARILLA ISLAND BRIDGE AUTHORITY – GIBA Board of Supervisors held their quarterly board meeting on Wednesday, April 22. Island residents Ronald Drake and Kenneth Richardson...

Spark Boca Grande to livestream comedy in May

BY OLIVIA CAMERON AND ERICA MARTIN – The island’s famed performers of Spark Boca Grande will entertain from the internet with a distant play. With social distancing recommendations, the group...

‘Friends at Home’ will keep you captivated during quarantine

April 24, 2020
Marcy Shortuse
News

BY OLIVIA CAMERON – Friends of Boca Grande has curated previous discussions and events with their website’s new subsection, #FriendsAtHome. Friends at Home features a variety of links to past...

Time to clean out the jewelry box to help a local girl: Loveland Center resident will come and collect your castoff jewelry

BY OLIVIA CAMERON – With stay-at-home recommendations regarding the safety of the public from the pandemic, what better time than to clean out old junk drawers and closets you don’t use? Any...

Update on Mercabo Cove … from the GICIA

SUBMITTED BY THE GICIA – The GICIA’s Mercabo Cove Project continues to move along with the construction team of TSI Disaster Recovery practicing appropriate CDC guidelines. The current global...

Island survey shows strong support for the Gasparilla Act Part I: Clearing up some misunderstanding

This will be the first part in a series regarding questions and misunderstandings about topics of discussion featured by the Boca Grande Community Planning Association. STAFF REPORT – The...

The time of the turtle is almost nigh, as false crawl found Wednesday

STAFF REPORT – While no nests have been reported on Gasparilla Island as of press time, the season is sure to start soon as a first false crawl was found by Boca Grande Sea Turtle Association...

All it takes is one person to make a difference: The 2020 Giving Challenge and BIPS

STAFF REPORT – On Tuesday, April 28 a 24-hour opportunity to support one of the largest and most important nonprofit organizations on the island begins. The Barrier Island Parks Society needs...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Moving into Phase 2

To the Editor, The burden is shifting to us, as it should. For two months we’ve been inundated with news, opinions and decisions, and watched the stock market bounce like a yoyo. All of this...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Uncharted territory made less scary by the BGWC

To the Editor, The last few months have been a scary venture into uncharted territory for all of us here in the Island community. Just as we were getting ready for the onset of the busy Spring...