June 2010 Blog Posts (44)

By Tim O’Meilia

Walter Gregory Howarth, Jr., a World War II hero and prison camp survivor who became the police chief in his New Jersey hometown, died June 19 in his adopted home

at Seagate Towers in Delray Beach. He was 88.

Mr.…

By Emily J. Minor

OCEAN RIDGE - Jacqueline Bander Weisblut, 65, died on Memorial Day after bravely suffering from multiple sclerosis since she was a young woman in her early 20s.

Her husband, Bob…

By Dianna Smith

Robert Zelle spent his life giving to others.

He volunteered for years at various places such as schools and medical centers while living part of the year in Gulf Stream and the other in Nashville and

while building…

By Emily J. Minor

MANALAPAN — Eugenia P.

Strauss, a Michigan girl who left home for the lights and opportunities of

Hollywood when she was just 16 years old, has died after a brief illness. She

was 75.…

By Greg Stepanich

Three Palm Beach County musicians got together nearly 20 years ago to found a chamber music series that would explore the broader reaches of the classical repertory,

and this month, the annual four-week series returns to provide an…

By C.B.Hanif

The blessings are likely to be mutual once again this month when Monsignor Tom Skindeleski, of St. Vincent Ferrer

Catholic Church in Delray Beach, leads his ninth annual Knights of Columbus

father-and-son contingent in service to…

By Arden Moore

Irwin Stovroff of Boca Raton is living proof that you’re never too old to make a…

T. Clark Appleby of Manalapan crossed the finish line at the Boston Marathon in April to benefit Hanley Center, and addiction treatment and prevention center in West Palm Beach. The 23-year old ran a race time of 3:05:03 and raised more than $1,500 to support Hanley's Lifesaver Patient Aid Fund. His grandmother, Yardley Manfuso, is a Hanley Center Foundation Board member and longstanding…

May heralds summer and the newspaper office starts to heat up during the long afternoons. My husband calls it the “sweat pit.” He’s dead set on replacing the

aging, noisy AC units above our doors. He’s only…

By Mary Thurwachter

On a sunny afternoon in May, Jestena Boughton and Hilary Roche converse in a long narrow office at the Colony Hotel. Lucy, the beagle-corgi mix Jestena recently

adopted, keeps an eye on things between snoozes.…

By Tim O’Meilia

Palm Beach County officials are pushing ahead with plans for a breakwater-and-groin project along a 1.3-mile stretch of largely South Palm Beach shoreline despite

critical reviews by federal agencies of a similar project along Singer Island

in Riviera Beach.…

By Kelly Wolfe

You need an arsenal of adjectives to describe the Dub City Roller Girls.

At first glance, they are a combination of the family tomboy playing dress-up in their cross-dressing uncle’s…

By Margie Plunkett

The Municipal Beach in Delray Beach would get a new name, pavilion and a sinuous sidewalk under a Beach Property Owners Association master plan that reflects

community input from a November workshop.…

Palm Beach County Emergency Operations Center

Palm Beach County has links to continually updated information on the spill, preparations in the event of its arrival in Palm Beach County, volunteer options and more on its website at: …

By Antigone Barton…

By Margie Plunkett

Ocean Ridge town commissioners were the arbiters of…

For two decades, Florida Stage has brightened the cultural landscape far beyond its little corner in Manalapan. Inevitably, the magnitude of the little company has

grown, so its orbit had to expand.

On June 20,…

By Margie Plunkett

The official word on estimated property values in Palm Beach County that came out in late May confirmed what many already anticipated as another down year for taxable

property values — and for municipal coffers.

Taxable values fell in a range from 6.8…