Yesterday I was surfing the Internet, and I came across an article about haunted restaurants. This article mentioned the Whale (formerly the Beached Whale and before that the Mermaid Club) as being haunted by the ghosts of Jim and Mary Galloway (I covered their murder in an earlier posting). Suddenly, I remembered reading about another […]
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For most of my life, Sargassum has been an elusive natural occurrence known by anglers as a “Weed Line.” These patches of Sargassum float offshore in the Atlantic providing food and shelter for bait fish as well as fish that live in the pelagic zone of the ocean which is neither close to the bottom
COVID, Ian, Red Tide, and now a Giant Blob of Seaweed: How much more can we take? Read More »
Tomorrow at 6 PM at Skip One Seafood, there will be a meeting to discuss the future of the Beach School. This school has been an integral part of our community since 1937. I attended the Beach School in the late 50s. My children attended the Beach School in the 90s. My mother taught at
As we hunkered down to prepare for the near freezing temperatures this weekend, I decided to do a little research into other times in our state’s history when the mercury dipped down into the teens. Over the past 150 years, numerous severe cold outbreaks have affected Florida. According to the Climate Center at Florida State
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The FMB Fire Department has been the pride of our island since 1949 when the Beach Volunteer Fire Department was born at “Jenk’s Bar” on San Carlos Island.
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For the past eleven months, the ball fields at Bay Oaks have been taken over by dump trucks and land movers as the clean up after Ian continued. Recently, however, it was announced that the ball fields will be back in operation by the end of the month. This will come as welcome news to
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For the past eleven months, the ball fields at Bay Oaks have been taken over by dump trucks and land movers as the clean up after Ian continued. Recently, however, it was announced that the ball fields will be back in operation by the end of the month. This will come as welcomed news to
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