Lantana council members Malcolm Balfour and Lynn Moorehouse (center) cut a cake as Moorehouse’s wife, Celeste, watches at a council meeting. Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal Star
In Lantana, it only took 284 votes for Hypoluxo Island resident Malcolm Balfour to win the Group 2 council seat. That position was vacated last year by Cindy Austino, who moved to Florida’s Panhandle.
Balfour, 75, a retired TV and newspaper journalist who worked at the New York Post and the National Enquirer, is the former chairman of the Lantana Nature Preserve.
Balfour’s opponents were Joe Ferrell, an architectural design consultant for a flooring company and alternate on the Lantana Planning Commission, who received 174 votes; and Rosemary Mouring, a long-time community volunteer and a member of the Lantana Planning Commission, who received 80 votes in the March 12 election.
Councilwoman Lynn Moorhouse, a dentist who represents Group 1, was re-elected without opposition.
Balfour and Moorhouse were sworn in during the council’s March 25 meeting. The council chose Councilman Tom Deringer to be vice mayor and Moorhouse as mayor pro tem.
— Mary Thurwachter
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