By Tim O’Meilia
Whaddaya do when the danged guvmint closes the bridge to the beach for 19 months and promises to build a nice, new, tall shiny replacement?
Why, ya throw a party of course.
The East Ocean Avenue bridge in Lantana officially
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By Tim O’Meilia
Three coastal communities signed a mutual aid agreement last month that will guarantee quick police response to calls on Hypoluxo Island during the 19 months the new East Ocean Avenue bridge is under construction in Lantana.
The agreeme
A1A in Manalapan will be closed to all but emergency vehicles and local traffic March 5-9 as a private tunnel is constructed. Expect delays.
By Jan Norris
Two years is a long time to go without Pamela’s grapefruit pie, or a plate of Peruvian fish and pepper cream sauce or George’s famous chicken salad.
Once the Ocean Avenue bridge closes, shutting off Lantana from the coastal reside
By Tim O’Meilia
While the Ocean Avenue Bridge is rebuilt beginning in mid-March, Lantana’s Hypoluxo Island residents may see the strobing blue lights of a Manalapan or South Palm Beach police cruiser first when they call for law enforcement help
By Steve Plunkett
Motorists on A1A will encounter a traffic snag two weeks before the Ocean Avenue bridge closes March 18.
Resident G. John Krediet is building a private pedestrian tunnel under State Road A1A that will close the highway to all but
The current Lake Worth bridge (above) was built in 1973 to replace the concrete bridge built in 1937 (below).
Photo by Tim Stepien
By Tim O’Meilia
In the mid-1910s, when Lake Worth city fathers figured it was time for a handsome wooden bridge to r
By Jan Norris
In our quest to help coastal residents replace businesses that will be cut off once the Ocean Avenue bridge in Lantana closes next month, here are those that can fill in for customers using the Lake Worth bridge.
These are just a few o
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
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 Tim O’Meilia
Out-of-towners traveling I-95 and headed for the Ritz-Carlton Resort in Manalapan or Grandma and Grandpa’s condo in South Palm Beach better have an updated GPS system.
When the Ocean Avenue bridge is closed in March for repl
Plans to replace the 1939 Camino Real Bridge were thwarted
after engineers discovered the structure is protected as a historic
treasure. Photo by Tim Stepien
By Tim Pallesen
Plans to replace the Camino Real Bridge have been canceled after count
By Margie Plunkett
and Tim O’Meilia
Lantana’s Ocean Avenue bridge closed for two years — bummer.
Lantana’s lease of sections of two parks for two years — cause for fireworks. Literally.
The new $33.2 million Ocean Avenue bridge will not onl
A rainy late afternoon in mid-October on East Ocean Avenue in Lantana. The orange valet parking cones are out in front of Bar Italia, but it’s early and little need for them yet.
Down the street cars are beginning to pull into t
From bridge to rubble … to reef? Maybe, if financing can be found.
The town of Lantana is trying to persuade county officials to spend an additional $300,000 and use the crumbled parts of the soon-to-be demolished Ocean Avenue Bridge as
The closing of the East Ocean Avenue Bridge to begin construction of its replacement has been pushed back to March, giving oceanside residents and avenue merchants an extra winter without detours.
“That will be wonderful. At lea
Hoping to shoo fishermen off the soon-to-be-rebuilt East Ocean Avenue bridge in Lantana, the Town Council approved construction of a $500,000 concrete fishing pier on the west end of the span.
Palm Beach County will build the 8-foot-wid
Manalapan Election: Commission Seat 1 | Commission Seat 5
By Steve Plunkett
Feeling pinched by Robert’s Rules of Order and Florida’s Sunshine Law, town commissioners will hold what they hope is a less structured strategy session this month.
They
By Tim O’Meilia
Start saving your change for extra gas money. Not because gas prices may reach $4 a gallon this summer, but because the round trip from South Palm Beach, Hypoluxo Island or Manalapan to the mainland will be six to 10 miles longer by Th
Manalapan is ramping up efforts to breathe new life into flagging Plaza Del Mar.
Daryl Cheifetz, who sits on Manalapan’s Architectural Commission, told town commissioners in December that with this year’s planned closing of the Ocean
