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Fun with numbers for this new year, A.D. 2025

December 27, 2024
Garland Pollard
Editorial

It’s all in the numbers. Who doesn’t enjoy a date with a good number? Was your date a good number? That’s what we get next week with New Year’s Day, always a 1-1. Christmas Day was a good...

Boca Grande history: White House florist visits and a lizard hunt fail, plus MerCabo

December 27, 2024
Staff Report
Community History

Brief news from this date in the archives of the Boca Beacon: FIVE YEARS AGO A bicyclist took a fall on the Boca Grande Causeway. Lee Flight flew the transport to Lee Memorial. Mercabo...

Push a pole, watch the birds, grasp opportunity in 2025

December 27, 2024
VAN HUBBARD
Columns

We celebrate the birth of Christ, Christmas and welcome a New Year. 2024 was tough on most of us and I’m looking forward to 2025. While times have been challenging, we live in a very special...

Lights of Boca Grande, 2024, by Matt Gutman

December 27, 2024
Staff Report
News

Here, views of the Christmas lights of Boca Grande. Photos by Boca Beacon and Gasparilla Island Magazine photographer Matthew Gutman. Sites include on Gasparilla Road; Baily Street; Gilchrist...

Farmer’s Market returns Jan. 3, on the Bayou

The Farmer’s Market will have a temporary location in town, on the Boca Grande Bayou near The Pink Elephant. The Bayou Avenue spot will open for the season next Friday,Jan. 3. “We are just...

A chronology of the year 2024 in the Boca Beacon

Editor’s Note: This is a chronology of many of the news events during 2024 by the Boca Beacon. January: New sheriff in town The year kicked off with the Auxiliary Emergency Radio...

Gasparilla Island Tennis Classic opens Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025

December 26, 2024
Garland Pollard
Events

The Gasparilla Island Tennis Classic opens on Saturday, Jan. 18. The all-island tournament, sponsored by the Boca Beacon’s publisher, Dusty Hopkins, will be held at the Boca Bay Pass Club, The...

Christmas Church Services

December 19, 2024
Staff Report
Events, News

Below are upcoming Christmas services on island. Lighthouse United Methodist Church December 24 • Family Service 5 p.m.• Traditional candlelight service 7 p.m. Our Lady of Mercy Catholic...

Business and Real Estate: Scarpa headlines Bloomberg Wall Street Week feature on Boca Grande

December 19, 2024
Staff Report
News, Real Estate

Glenn Scarpa of Scarpa’s Coastal was recently interviewed by Bloomberg Wall Street Week for a feature on insurance costs in Florida and across the United States. Reached last week, Scarpa said he...

Johann Fust Library Foundation teeming with January book events

December 19, 2024
Staff Report
Entertainment, Events, News

The Johann Fust Library Foundation team is working hard to restore the library so it can reopen soon. In the meantime, the foundation invites you back to its courtyard and loggia on Friday, Jan....