Lee County will consider a new MSBU tax for Gasparilla Island if new parking restrictions impact beach renourishment funding. The recently passed parking ordinance will possibly involve the imposition ...

Staging for the renourishment at the south end of Gasparilla Island has begun. This week, cranes and pipes are being installed along the beachfront. Currently, the Gasparilla Island State Park at the ...

While the new parking ordinance for Boca Grande will be filed with the state of Florida this week, it could be months before it is enforced. That means that current rules for parking and beaches, ...

The Charlotte County Community Development Department has officially launched Forerunner, a new online platform that gives residents quick, easy access to d ...

Don Pedro Island boat ferry access will begin again once the island is repaired, said the boat concessionaire for Don Pedro Island State Park. “We need to allow the state to repair the island,” said ...

Boca Grande: Curve of the horizon, dignity of a heron BY MATTHEW HACKL I was born in May of 1999, but in some ways, I was born again each time I crossed the toll bridge returning to Boca Grande. This ...

The Porsche Club of America was in Boca Grande recently for one of its regular outings. Rob Vigorito, vice president of the Everglades Region of the PCA, organized the outing, which included lunch at ...

Charlotte County Public Works will host a community outreach meeting on Monday, August 18, to discuss county right-of-way (ROW) encroachments on Don Pedro and Knight Islands. The meeting will be held ...

This Sunday, Aug. 10, the Rev. Patty Frick, a United Methodist elder, will preach at Lighthouse United Methodist Church. She was ordained in 2005 at the Peninsula-Delaware Conference. She served ...

The Gasparilla Island parking ordinance passed unanimously at Tuesday’s Lee County Commissioners meeting with several amendments, including increasing a downtown two-hour parking limit to three hours.