The team at the Grapevine Gourmet & Gift Shop has searched the entire country for the best selection of Easter confections and have found a great selection. From Harbor Sweets, in Salem Mass. to the Moonstruck Chocolate Co. in Portland, Ore., they’ve got it all!

Jack and Sandra Bylaska would like to announce the arrival of their first great grandchild, Marilyn Renee Gerber.

Sheryle Isaacs, 68, of St. Petersburg and Boca Grande, passed away on March 6, 2013 in St. Petersburg.

BY JACK SHORT - Gary Allen is enjoying a well-deserved rest with his family on Boca Grande after completing a fund-raising run from Maine to Washington, D.C.. The race director of the Mount Desert Island marathon and elementary school cross-country coach will be speaking about his journey at 10 a.m., March 27, at the Boca Grande Community Center.

Just to reiterate the policy that the Boca Beacon has had for many years ...

Dear Editor,

On the front page of the March 15th issue of the Beacon, you published a photo of one of our young men and ran a piece about how he was in police custody. Meanwhile on page five of this same issue, in the section that remembers our island’s past, the first entry is about the same young man’s father who passed away five years ago, photo included.