I am writing regarding the recent passage of Ordinance 405 by the town of Manalapan on May 12 and the growing trend of municipalities attempting to regulate shark fishing and other fishing activity, despite Florida’s longstanding state preemption ov
Read more…Turtle time is coming, so let’s talk elections.
March marks the start of the annual sea turtle season, when beach lighting dims and stakes marking buried turtle nests begin sprouting along the shoreline.
It’s also municipal election season, when loca
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In what logical way does it make any sense to allow one person to inconvenience thousands?
Why would a [Manalapan] homeowner be allowed to tunnel under a public road [State Road A1A] for personal use? Why should thousands of people be inconvenienc
Read more…Unintended conse-quences. Who would have guessed 20 years ago that big, white square houses would be all the rage? Who could have known FEMA, faced with the reality of rising water, would set new requirements for floor levels? And I suppose it shoul
Read more…I am writing in hopes that you will be interested in the other side of the story you recently printed about Manalapan police grievances.
The union was accepted in Manalapan as the result of poor management that was evident by the huge turnover pri
I would like to thank Manalapan police officer Chris Filippelli and Lt. Christopher Fahey, who brought my golden retriever, Missy, to me on Feb. 18.
I would also like to thank the residents who helped get Missy to safety. Everyone went out of th
Re “Sides agree to plan for crowded property line landscaping,” March 2012 edition:
The Feb. 8 Manalapan architectural committee meeting dealt with two specific, separate requests by Nives Montero; first, for approval to modify an existing residen
Your editorial on town bullying was quite insightful [February 2012]. It’s obvious that bullying goes way beyond interactions between kids.
Interesting that our coastal towns are, for the most part, smaller communities whose residents have a wide
I thought it important to thank you for your fine newspaper. I read a number of national papers daily, but nothing can compete with your publication for informative reporting on a local level.
Articles such as the new building taking place in Mana
By tasting samples of Delray Beach’s water gathered from Gulf Stream Town Hall [Whose water tastes best?, August 2011] we may have implied that all of Delray Beach’s water would taste the same regardless of where the sample was gathered. A more compr
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