Tag: Boca Grande

If you’re wishin’ to go fishin’ …

September 1, 2017
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ STAFF REPORT Grab your fishing pole and tackle box and come join the family fun at our youth fishing tournament on Saturday, Sept. 9 from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Boca Grande Fishing Pier North. The...

Weather brings flooding to island … but also brings out best in locals donating to Harvey effort in Texas

September 1, 2017
Marcy Shortuse
Featured News, News

The Gasparilla Island Act: Part III Measuring buildings and making amendments

September 1, 2017
Marcy Shortuse
Featured News, News

■ BY SUSAN HANAFEE Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of articles about the forces that have shaped development in Boca Grande and on Gasparilla Island. It’s a scene from the early 1980s...

Chase Taylor doing well after foul ball accident, meets Tebow

September 1, 2017
Marcy Shortuse
Featured News, News

■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE Chase Taylor is a very lucky little boy. After being hit with a foul ball at a Stone Crabs game on August 8, he is not only well on his way to recovery but also got to meet Tim...

Profile Mitch Smith

September 1, 2017
Marcy Shortuse
News, Profiles

■ BY SUE ERWIN Mitch Smith recalls spending the summer months of his youth at day camp at the Boca Grande Community Center. His father, Myron, worked for a cleaning business on the island for many...

Never forget that Texas could have been us

■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE This week many of us watched in horror as Hurricane Harvey turned into a nasty houseguest who wouldn’t leave and left thousands of people in Texas and Louisiana homeless,...

Make Boca Grande quiet again … redux

To the Editor: Thanks for all the verbal support received concerning leafblower noise and health hazards. Remember … if daily and weekly leafblowing were done every other day and week, noise...

A smooth surface: GICIA bike path resurfacing has begun

August 25, 2017
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ SUBMITTED BY THE GICIA – It has been more than 30 years since the Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association (GICIA) bike path was constructed and opened to the public. In...

The Gasparilla Island Act: Part II Building in Boca, and a war of words over the island’s future

August 25, 2017
Marcy Shortuse
Featured News, News

■ BY SUSAN HANAFEE Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of articles about the forces that have shaped development in Boca Grande and on Gasparilla Island. As the tarpon season is getting...

Bridge scale lane set to reopen Monday

August 25, 2017
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ STAFF REPORT – The installation of the Boca Grande swing bridge’s new scale lane is almost complete, and it is scheduled to reopen on Monday, Aug. 28 at 5:45 a.m. The Gasparilla Island...