Tag: Gasparilla Island

May/June Edition Gasparilla Magazine Out Now

April 15, 2026
Alici Ouellette
News

To start off the summer season Boca Beacon’s Gasparilla Magazine May/June Edition is out with new feature stories, recipes, shopping and social pages. Features include “Crossing For...

Lee County Commission Meeting on Beach Funding, Boca Grande Parking

September 16, 2025
Garland Pollard
News

There are three items relating to Boca Grande, including two items to be pulled for discussion from the consent agenda, at this morning’s Lee Commission meeting. The two items concern the...

New 2025 Boca Grande Street Map is out now

January 31, 2025
Staff Report
News

From restaurants to local retailers to prized recreational spots throughout our community, this year’s edition of the Boca Grande Street Map provides residents and visitors with an expert...

The search for the ever-elusive alligator

January 10, 2025
Evan Dunbar
Sports & Outdoors

One of Florida’s most famous animals, the American Alligator, has been avoiding me for some time. I intend to find out why. It was finals week at the University of Missouri when I...

Gasparilla economics experiment with the family

August 8, 2024
Guest Columnist
Columns, Society

BY MATTHEW HACKL There are few times in life you find the opportunity to upgrade from uncle to “the cool uncle.” My venture arrived in the form of a Gasparilla Island shopping spree....

Common sea sponge cleans up

The old Boca Grande railroad runs along the north end of Gasparilla Island over a shallow sandbar that is a popular hangout for boaters and paddlers. It is also where I take my guests on...

Coastal Living ‘discovers’ a secret island called Gasparilla. Who knew?

August 24, 2023
Garland Pollard
Community, News

The magazine Coastal Living has “discovered” a new secret island, Gasparilla. The new fall edition of the magazine put Gasparilla on its front cover with the caption “Florida’s Secret Island....

ECOWATCH: It’s never too late to be charitable

November 29, 2021
Delores Savas
Columns

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OBITUARY: Ann Berry Fitzgerald

November 26, 2021
Staff Report
Obituaries

Ann Berry Fitzgerald, 82, of Boca Grande, formerly of Northfield, Ill., died Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021, at the Glenridge on Palmer Ranch in Sarasota, where she had resided for the last year. ...

PROFILE: Michelle Hubbs

November 26, 2021
T Michele Walker
Profiles

After years of high intensity interval training and military workouts, Michelle Hubbs knew that she was due for a change. While she was still fit and in her prime, it started to feel like those...