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Boca Grande’s Island Disaster Fund ends with over $3.5 million in donations

January 2, 2025
Garland Pollard
Community, News

The island Disaster Fund is now at $3,596,000 to aid island non-profits and businesses. “It keeps coming in,” said co-organizer Larry Hannah, who is one of a group of volunteers who are helping...

New Florida fiction

January 2, 2025
Anna Ridilla
Entertainment, News

Some new Florida books: “State of Paradise” by Laura van den Berg In a small Florida town, a ghostwriter navigates a surreal summer filled with missing people, a mysterious virtual...

American Glory passing Boca Grande Lighthouse

January 2, 2025
Staff Report
News

The coastal catamaran American Glory arrived in Boca Grande Pass on its Florida Gulf Coast and Keys Cruise on New Year’s Day. They run through March. She has capacity for 100 guests, and is part...

The GICIA celebrates 40th anniversary of island’s cherished Bike Path

BY MISTY NICHOLSEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association (GICIA) is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the cherished GICIA Bike Path. Originally opened...

A welcome for the director of Mount Vernon

January 2, 2025
Garland Pollard
Editorial, Events

Next Wednesday, Doug Bradburn, director of Mount Vernon, will visit the island as part of a Friends of Boca Grande lecture in their History and Heritage series. Most people over a certain...

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...