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AROUND THE TOWN
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First $50,000 donation given to emergency comms project
After a disaster, when first responders aren’t able to communicate with each other and the public cannot communicate with them, there’s a feeling of hopelessness and anxiety that in this...
OBITUARY: Robert Johnson
This generational pilot boat captain has crossed the bar
Capt. Robert W. Johnson passed away on Saturday, August 12, 2023 at his family home, the historic Quarantine House.
Robert was born...
Can you take the fountain?
Fountain created decades ago by Alzamora sister needs a home right away
Sometimes you don’t realize how much has changed in a place until you find out that the things that were once so...
AROUND THE ISLAND (AND BEYOND) …
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TURTLE NEWS
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OBITUARY: Nelson Thomas
The sun was a little less bright the day when Nelson Thomas was taken from us just recently. He was an island son who was known to all and loved by many, and he spent the last years of his life...
EDITORIAL: We are all ‘somebody’ in the history of Gasparilla Island … for better, or for worse
There’s so much that has changed in our community in the last year or two. It’s difficult sometimes to wrap our minds around what has happened just since last September, much less the other...
THIS DATE IN THE BOCA BEACON
TEN YEARS AGO
A mystery survey was sent to random island residents, regarding Gilchrist Avenue parking? Who sent it? And why?
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
A group that included Robert Johnson,...