Tag: Gasparilla Island

BIPS looks for final funding of Range Light project

■ STAFF REPORT The Barrier Islands Park Society has outlined the work yet to be accomplished in its restoration of the Gasparilla Island Light (formerly known as the Rear Range Light). The...

Expert neurosurgeon talks stroke treatments with island residents

January 27, 2017
Marcy Shortuse
Featured News, News

■ BY SUE ERWIN Boca Grande residents were invited to attend a medical lecture and learn more about new treatments that help patients who experience acute strokes, brain aneurysms and vascular...

PROFILE: Sierra Cunningham

January 27, 2017
Marcy Shortuse
Profiles

■ BY SUE ERWIN Sierra Cunningham has been helping people on the island look their best for the past nine years. She’s a full-time hair stylist at James Griffith Salon at the Gasparilla Inn...

Obituary: Barbara Anne Benisek

Barbara Anne Benisek, 85, passed away on January 19, 2017. Formerly of Grand Rapids and Ada, Michigan, Barbara resided in Frankfort, Michigan and spent winters in Boca Grande. She passed away...

Obituary: Creighton L. Sherman

Creighton L. Sherman, 90, of Marshall, Mich. (formerly of Boca Grande) passed away on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. He was born on January 31, 1926. Mr.Sherman was the first executive director of the...

What is inverted smoke? And why do I care?

■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE On Wednesday I woke up to my son telling me the neighborhood was on fire. I looked out the window and couldn’t see a thing, I just thought it was foggy. It wasn’t until...

Love Lines are back; pitch your woo here!

January 20, 2017
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ STAFF REPORT You have just a short time left to decide what to get your sweetie for Valentine’s Day. Will it be a card? Flowers? Perhaps a baby alligator in lederhosen? While all of those...

Drop a line this Saturday at the youth fishing tourney

January 20, 2017
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ STAFF REPORT On Saturday, Jan. 21 Lee County Parks & Recreation and the Boca Beacon will sponsor the latest installment in their youth fishing tournament series from 9 to 11 a.m. on the...

Hail! The Taste is back

January 20, 2017
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE Roulade. Keftedes. Corn emulsion? For the culinary faint of heart these words may seem a bit daunting. Take courage, dear culinarily-confused comrades, this is what the...

Rep. Rodrigues speaks to Boca Grande residents

January 20, 2017
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ BY SUE ERWIN Florida House Representative Ray Rodrigues spoke to Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association board members as well as a group of residents on Tuesday, January...