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St. Mark Catholic School seventh-grader India Roehrich-Hill speaks about what Coach Barulic means to her during the ‘Loving Locks/Bald For Barulic’ event held in honor of CoachChristopher Barulic, who is being treated for cancer.

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Bathers relax on the beach at the old Boynton Beach Hotel, probably around 1920. Images courtesy of the Boynton Beach Library

By Ron Hayes

In the winter of 1899, it was “a quiet place with pleasant surroundings … away from the hurly-burly of large,

By Angie Francalancia
    
With continuing uncertainty over emergency services for the coastal towns, Ocean Ridge City Manager Ken Schenck reached out to private ambulance company American Medical Response to investigate options.
    It could cost as mu

By Angie Francalancia
    
Boynton Beach’s Community Redevelopment Agency is no closer than it was two months ago to razing the old building at Boynton Marina after county commissioners insisted on a 30-day delay to try to accommodate the building’s fo

The big bully. The mean kid. We always knew them when we saw them.
    Generations of parents helped their children face the school bully, and surviving their attacks came to seem a rite of passage to adulthood.  
    Somehow, though, the tough-it-out

Drop the “interim” in Boynton Beach Fire Chief Ray Carter’s title. He’s permanent now.
    In a release last month, Boynton interim City Manager Lori LaVerriere announced that Carter will take over the job, including overseeing how the department mig

BOYNTON BEACH — Their first restaurant back in 1936 was a tiny place in Briny Breezes. “I think it was only about four seats,” remembers Dorothy McNeice, somewhat of a local historian.
“You could come in and get sandwiches and of course they were famo

Members of the Literacy Center Committee gather at the site of the future home of the Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County at 3651 Quantum Blvd. in Boynton Beach.  The 12,204-square-foot Literacy Center for Education, Training and Outreach will se

The current Ocean Avenue Bridge was built in 2001 in Boynton Beach. The first span was built in 1911. Photo by Tim Stepien

By Tim O’Meilia
    
Perhaps it was the drowning of a 19-year-old girl in 1909 as she tried to ferry across what was called the

Ocean Ridge Police officials and Boynton Beach paramedics recently tried parking a fire truck and an EMS rescue vehicle in the garage behind town hall to confirm that the equipment would fit.  Since the garage was built when Ocean Ridge still provide

    Once Lantana’s Ocean Avenue Bridge closes in March, island dwellers will be looking to other businesses and restaurants for some of the same services and foods. Some favorite Lantana spots will be worth the drive (of course) and many favorite res

By Ron Hayes
    How many families does it take to sell a light bulb?
    In Boynton Beach, just one.
    But they have to sell it for 40 years.
    This year, Dale and Edris Hatch, their children, their grandchildren and their great-grandchildren will c

By Angie Francalancia

The best place for Boynton Beach Fire Rescue Station No. 1 might be in Ocean Ridge.
    Boynton Beach’s City Commission agreed during a workshop late last month to talk about the potential of moving Station No. 1 into Ocean Ridge

Stan Smith of Lake Worth puts finishing touches on the public art installation of ‘The Gulf Stream’ by local artist Frank Varga prior to the Oct. 26 opening of Walmart at Gulfstream Boulevard and Federal Highway in Boynton Beach.
Photos by Jerry Lowe

By Mary Jane Fine

Fourteen years ago, when Sherry Johnson joined the CCC of Boynton Beach, part-time, she began questioning the way tummies were being filled. “When you’re serving a community where people have a lot of high blood pressure, and you’re

By Thom Smith

Call it the tale of two bridges. But the climax, thrilling or depressing, won’t be written for months … or even years.
    Delray’s Atlantic Avenue Bridge will be closed until Nov. 23 for a face lift. Crews will work from 10 p.m. to 6

By Angie Francalancia

  Mayors find consolidation consultants price steep

Less than a month after Boynton Beach city commissioners had put to rest the idea of closing Fire Station No. 1, which serves island residents, the topic popped up again — th