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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 taking...
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 changes...
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, sisters...
An agnostic view of Boca Grande’s alien visits over the years
In the wake of the recent explosive hearings in the U.S. Congress on UFOs, now called Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, the sole report of a 1999 UFO hovering near the causeway to Boca Grande still remains...
OBITUARY: Sackett Snow Cook
Sackett Snow Cook died peacefully August 1 at Westview on Main in Fairhaven MA, with his wife of 41 years, Mary Elizabeth (White) Cook, by his side.
He was born in Providence RI to Martha Sackett...