Tag: Fourth of July

Bunting for Fourth at Causeway

July 9, 2026
Staff Report
Community, News

Staff from the Gasparilla Island Bridge Authority prepared last Friday for a busy Fourth of July weekend. On Saturday, they gave out American flags to all customers who came through the staffed...

Rolling in Red, White and Blue

Decorated golf carts and waving flags highlighted a festive community celebration of American Spirit on Saturday, July 4. The traditional golf cart parade wound through downtown as it brought the...

Revolutionary ancestors on parade

The Fourth of July holiday on Gasparilla Island attracted a large number of visitors, including the extended Thomas and Westerberg families, down from Sarasota. The family came to stay at The...

4th Golf Cart Parade

The Boca Grande Fourth of July Golf Cart Parade is set for Saturday morning. The event is an annual July 4th tradition on the island. There are no entry fees, and you just need to line up around...

Audubon asks for safe bird beaches for Fourth

Independence Day is a cause for remembrance and celebration. Unfortunately, celebratory fireworks can literally frighten baby birds to death. Although beachside fireworks shows are entertaining...

Fourth of July Golf Cart Parade begins at 9 a.m

Get planning for the Boca Grande Fourth of July Golf Cart Parade. The event is an annual July 4th tradition on the island; there are no entry fees and you just need to line up around 8:30 a.m. at...

IN THE SPOTLIGHT: A brief history of the Boca Grande Fourth of July

June 25, 2026
Garland Pollard
Profiles

In 1958, gray skies and rain marred the Fourth of July in Boca Grande. But it was still perhaps the biggest Fourth of July ever for the island, as that Fourth marked the opening of the Gasparilla...

IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Forristall fleet arrival!

July 2, 2025
Garland Pollard
Profiles

A Boca Grande family celebrates This week, the large extended Forristall family gathered at their cottage on Gasparilla Road. They are one of the many regulars in the Fourth of July...

A countdown for our nation’s 250th begins Friday

July 2, 2025
Garland Pollard
Editorial

This Fourth of July we are in a countdown to July 4, 2026 – our nation’s 250th. Is it a semiquincentennial or a sestercentennial? Bicentennial, in 1976, was a lot easier to say. In 1976, there...

EcoWatch: Is the spirit of July 4th celebration still alive?

“Hold on, my friends,to the Constitutionand the republic for which it stands. Miracles do nut cluster,and what happened once in 6,000 years,may not happen again.Hold on to the Constition,for if...