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IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Called to a life of faith, in Boca Grande

February 29, 2024
Sheila Evans
Profiles

There is something special about Garth Bailey. It only takes a few minutes talking to him to know what it is. He is unabashedly in love with the Lord. Garth is from Ocho Rios, Jamaica, but lives...

Redundant systems and Boca Grande’s Auxcomm

February 29, 2024
Garland Pollard
Editorial

In the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, communications for Cape Haze and Boca Grande went back to the pre-Flintstones era. That might sound extreme. It is not, as Barney and Fred had dial phones with...

Fust Library Foundation offers writing and research roundtable March 14

February 29, 2024
Staff Report
Entertainment, Events, News

On March 14, at 4 p.m., local writers Linda Fairstein, Susan Hanafee, Candice Shy Hooper and Bobbie Marquis will gather in the loggia of the Johann Fust Community Library to talk about how they approach...

Island emergency leads meet for Auxcomm introduction

The steering committee for Gasparilla Island’s new Auxiliary Emergency Communications system met Monday morning at the Boca Grande Fire Department to hear a presentation about the new system’s capabilities,...

Island pastors meet to plan Easter

The leaders of the Boca Grande churches met this week to begin planning for the 2024 Holy Week and Easter services available to the public. With two of the four churches having new leadership this...

Three missing boaters were fixtures at Boca Grande houses

February 29, 2024
Garland Pollard
Breaking News, News

Longtime employees, friends, rally to cause of lost fathers Three of the four men lost off the coast near Venice in an apparent fishing boat accident on Feb. 17 were employees of Safety Harbor Builders...

Cape Haze at nexus of American sawfish revival

February 23, 2024
Garland Pollard
Editorial

We reside in a sawfish aquarium, Charlotte Harbor. It’s Jurassic Park, and you don’t have to visit Universal Orlando. Last Thursday, sawfish expert Tonya Wiley delivered a talk in Cape Haze as part...

Getting to the heart of the story for women

February 15, 2024
Staff Report
Health & Wellness

BY MARY BETH SCHNEIDER I should have died this past summer. Not the illness kind of death, but the drop-dead kind that makes everyone ask “What happened? She was so fit!” Thankfully, it wasn’t my...

Manta Ray expert swims into Cape Haze Feb. 22

Jessica Pate, the lead scientist for the Florida Manta Project, will be in town on Thursday, Feb. 22 to speak on The Mysterious Manta Rays of Florida. Pate started the Florida Manta Project in 2016...

History Bytes: A ‘true Southern lady’ Mary Ellen Vickers Parkinson

February 15, 2024
Anna Ridilla
Community History

The second History Bytes program for 2024 featured Boca Grande native Carolyn Parkinson Nabers sharing about her mother’s life on the island. Mary Ellen Vickers Parkinson was “a true Southern lady,”...