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Someone’s going to get rowdy with Rowdy pretty soon

November 24, 2022
Marcy Shortuse
News

If you remember Rowdy Gaines, the ultimate Olympic swimmer from the 1970s and ’80s, it might excite you to know that he has a home on Little Gasparilla Island. Being the ever-charitable guy that...

OBITUARY: Catherine Munsell

November 24, 2022
Staff Report
Obituaries

Catherine Anne Halpin Munsell, 81, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Boca Grande passed away on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, in Englewood. Cathy was born in Fort Riley, Kansas, to Lawrence and Margaret...

OBITUARY: Merle “Jean” Moenning

November 23, 2022
Staff Report
Obituaries

Merle “Jean” Moenning, 88, of Punta Gorda, was born on May 26, 1934, in Vincennes, Indiana to Clark and Dorothy Johnson and passed away into the arms of her Heavenly Father on November 21, 2022,...

IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Dr. Sarah Babcock

November 23, 2022
Sheila Evans
Profiles

“You only need to look in the news to see concerns about influenza, food safety or red tide to realize how much our health and safety are tied to animals, plants and our shared environment.” Dr...

THIS WEEK IN THE BOCA BEACON

Boca Beacon backpages FIVE YEARS AGO Peter and Elsa Soderberg donated $1 million to the new Suncoast Humane Society building project, and the Barrier Island Parks Society announced a new...

ECOWATCH

November 23, 2022
Delores Savas
Columns, Opinion

Boca Beacon backpages “Procrastination is the action of unnecessarily and voluntarily delaying or postponing something despite knowing that there will be negative consequences for doing so.” –...

November 23, 2022
Marcy Shortuse
Featured News

Over the past week red tide was present in very low to high concentrations in and offshore of Sarasota County, background to high concentrations in and offshore of Charlotte County, very low to...

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Someone’s going to get rowdy with Rowdy pretty soon

OBITUARY: Catherine Munsell

OBITUARY: Merle “Jean” Moenning

IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Dr. Sarah Babcock

THIS WEEK IN THE BOCA BEACON

ECOWATCH

Bocascopes for the week of 11-25-2022

Pigskin Pick’em: Week 12

HORTOONS

Red tide status this week