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This Date in the Boca Beacon

FIVE YEARS AGO A Port Charlotte youth visiting with a church group drowned at the south end of the island. In another scenario, two lives were saved from drowning when beachgoers formed a human...

Business owners, residents – make sure you are hurricane ready!

With August 1 coming up quickly, that means that the peak of hurricane season is as well. While we are lucky so far in 2022, that doesn’t mean we are out of the woods. In fact, most hurricanes...

OBITUARY: Todd Vaughan

July 21, 2022
Staff Report
Obituaries

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Todd Kirkpatrick Vaughan on July 11, 2022 at home on Boca Grande.Todd finally succumbed to battling cancer at the age of 80. Todd is...

OBITUARY: Dr. Dick Morrison

July 21, 2022
Staff Report
Obituaries

Dr. Richard (Dick) Morrison, 86, died July 5, 2022, at Tidewell Hospice House. He was born Nov. 10, 1935 to Russell and Sylvia Morrison in Detroit, Michigan and moved to Venice, Fla. in 1970. In...

Summer camp memories are being made!

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Ham-it-Up with the Boca Beacon

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When you look through old newspapers, you find all kinds of interesting things

While the Fourth of July is a somewhat distant memory in the minds of many (of course Monday is a distant memory for many people), we thought you might be interested in something we found while...

EDITORIAL: Joint statement from the Florida Secretary of State and Florida Supervisor of Elections in response to cybersecurity and infrastructure concerns

Submitted by the Florida Department of Elections Recently, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an advisory confirming that Florida is well ahead of the nation on...

Those are some really expensive tennis courts:

July 8, 2022
Marcy Shortuse
News

County talks about upcoming project on Wheeler, drops the numbers and … WOW! Pickles are usually small things. Pickleball is more or less a diminutive version of tennis, too. But when Lee...

VOTE! 2022 Primary election information you should know

July 1, 2022
Staff Report
Community, News

The Lee County Supervisor of Elections office will mail new voter information cards to all active Lee County voters this month. The voter information cards will include the voter’s personal...