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The Community Advisory Board of WXEL has a seat on the bus for anyone willing to help show the state Board of Education that there’s local opposition to the public radio station’s sale to Classical South Florida. The Board of Edu
Racquet back, eye on the ball …
Pop! And another shot strikes the clay inches inside the baseline. “That’s it, that’s it!,” the encouraging words follow as a young girl, barely in her teens, struggles with the fusillade that tests her forehand and ba
By Arden Moore
Have you ever wondered if your dog or cat prays? Believes in a higher power? Will your beloved departed pets be waiting for you with tail wags and purrs in Heaven?
L
By Ron Hayes
Look, up in the sky!
It’s a bird!It’s a plane!
It’s a … flying turtle?Well, not flying, exactly.
Suspended from the 81-foot boom of a 25-ton crane, the turtle is twisting slowly, slowly, 40 feet above Oceanfront Park on a glo
By Tim Norris
Frankie isn’t talking. He’s engaged, at the moment, with a jalapeño pepper, which he is bolting down in large bits.
Anthony isn’t talking, either. He’s knuckle-deep in a pizza dough, rolling and tossing it, layering it with tomato
By Angie Francalancia
For the first time since the sale of WXEL-FM 90.7 was announced six months ago, the
public broadcasting station’s Citizens Advisory Board had a chance to tell its board of trustees why the members and the community oppose the s
By Arden Moore
You’re never too young to make a difference. Just ask 12-year-old Monica Plumb of Powhatan, Va. After reading in her local newspaper about firefighters using a pet oxygen mask to save the life of a dog in a house fire two years ago,
By Antigone Barton
A casual passerby might have trouble imagining the battered old building indowntown Boynton Beach as the vibrant gathering place city commissioners hoped for at their August meeting.
But coastal residents who went to high scho
1928 — Building used as a shelter during 1928 hurricane. The second-floor auditorium collapses during the storm. No one was injured.
1929 — First hiBy John William Johnson
Boynton Beach city commissioners have opposed the sale of local public radio station WXEL to Classical South Florida, citing the potential loss of jobs — and perhaps local programming.
According to some commissioners,
“On this side of the bridge, people wave with all five fingers.”
I laughed out loud when Ocean Ridge Police Chief Chris Yannuzzi said this to helpexplain why his department was better suited to provide protection to Briny Breezes at its June 24 tow
By Thom Smith
Heads turned. Hands waved. Horns honked.
Motorists and pedestrians from Sebastian to Boca Raton had no trouble recognizing thefamiliar cyclist during the first week of June. Steve Weagle was at it again, biking north to south to rai
By Margie Plunkett
The Ocean Ridge Police Department will begin patrolling Briny Breezes in October after winning council’s unanimous support with last-minute contract concessions in its competition with current provider Boynton Beach Police Depar
Two competing nonprofits showed how they would revamp and re-energize WXEL publictelevision and radio at a public forum June 29.
The Delray Beach-based Strategic Broadcast Media Group and the Community BroadcastFoundation are both
By Mary Thurwachter
In the early 1940s, Michigander Ruth Jones was a single lady in her 20s who began traveling to Florida with hercousin. Her aunt owned the Old Dutch Mill restaurant on Federal Highway, the very spot she eventually met her sp
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 fe
By Thom Smith
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, the last lines of the
By Thomas R. Collins
Since Boynton Beach brought up the idea of annexing pieces of unincorporated barrierisland land, several residents have made it known that they’d prefer to be part of Gulf Stream instead.
As a result, Gulf Stream town offici
By Margie Plunkett
Mayor Roger Bennett is asking the two police agencies bidding to provide BrinyBreezes protection to forego annual 4 percent increases, a move that delayed a vote at the Town Council’s May meeting.
The town now plans to choose a