Boca Grande News Archives

When you pick up the a oeWorkshops and Eventsa schedule from the Boca Grande Art Alliance, it feels more like a small book than a flyer.

The Boca Grande Health Clinic will present a lecture on swine flu on Tuesday, Nov.

On Friday, Oct. 30 the Boca Grande Area Chamber of Commerce Halloween Walk will be held downtown from 4 to 6 p.m. In a tradition that was established years ago, businesses will be open and doling out treats for all island children.

Everybody deserves an occasional indulgence. My excuse is that it's my birthday Tuesday.

Home >> Fall Festival >> Featured Content >> Currently Reading: From the Inn's kitchen: Fest showcased island's flair for food I have sincerely enjoyed my first several weeks here on our beautiful island I now call home.

The Boca Grande Sleuths present their 15th season of criminal activity. Sleuths Rosemary Bowler, Pat Lombard, and Jean Meanwell will set the stage and guide each session.

While the Boca Grande Fall Festival was created to bring in donations for the chamber of commerce scholarship fund and, to be honest, to promote a really great excuse to party, one perk that sometimes follows is an increase in local business.

Fall was in the air and in the attitudes of those who attended the Boca Grande Fall Festival over the weekend, and with approximately 2,000 off-island guests, was considered a success by those who coordinated the event.

The pre-dawn sky Thursday - the first day of stone crab season - burned orange and pink, complete with the bright planet Venus and a thin crescent moon.

The Diocese of Southwest Florida's 41st annual convention restored voting rights to deacons, decreased the annual apportionment for parishes by 1 percent, and heard of the bishop's hopes to move diocesan headquarters back to DaySpring Episcopal Conference Center .

The U.S. Coast Guard office out of St. Petersburg received a distress call at 8 p.m. Saturday night in reference a 40-foot boat taking on water near Gasparilla Pass.

The Gasparilla Inn and Club will be holding its annual open house on Wednesday, Oct.

The Boca Grande Fall Festival may be looked at as a weekend event to bolster scholarship funding and having a good time, but it's actually more than that.

Just before the sun had completely risen over Gasparilla Island, Norma Jean Zvosec peered down into an 18-inch hole she had dug on the beach near 35th Street.

Dahlias and Colorful Saluteswill fill the skies over Boca Grande Saturday night as part of the Boca Grande Fall Festival.

Tickets for one of the biggest island events of the season, Taste of Boca Grande - 2010, will go on sale November 1. According to Blanche Johnson, one of the coordinators of the event, they will be immediately available at the Boca Bay Pass Club, the Boca Grande Club, the Boca Beacon and through Thor Johnson and Brian Corcoran.

The owner of a Boca Grande hair salon was among three people arrested on drug-related charges on Wednesday, Oct.

Why: Hear the latest on the coming season from general manager Jack Damioli and his staff.

Inshore -Therea s still a few snook on the beach to the north side of Stump Pass, but that action is winding down.

BOCA GRANDE, Fl. a ' Domitalia, which has sold products to U.S. dealers on a container basis, will now make goods available from warehouses in High Point and Los Angeles.

Boca Grande Lighthouse was built in December of 1890, and is the oldest structure on Gasparilla Island.

Explore the wild and scenic Myakka River by kayak guided by John Sarkozy of the American Littoral Society 8:30-11:30 a.m. Oct.

The way is clear for the planned expansion at the Gasparilla Inn Marina as far as the Lee County planners are concerned.

All lectures begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Community Center Auditorium. Jan. 27: N.C. Wyeth presented by Boots Tolsdorf of Punta Gorda Feb.

A 22-year-old bus boy at the Boca Grande Club is facing felony charges after deputies say he sent two naked photos of himself to a 14-year-old girl's cell phone.

'Evening Under the Stars' needs telescopes October 2, 2009 News No Comments The Island School staff and students will be celebrating "An Evening Under the Stars" on Tuesday, Nov.

Sometimes a virus gets the best of them. Other times, the obstinate beasts simply refuse to cooperate.