By Dan Moffett
In 1996, Mike Hill lost a hotly contested election for the Highland Beach vice-mayor seat by a mere 12 votes out of nearly 1,200 cast.
On Jan. 23, becoming the new mayor of Briny Breezes was a lot easier.
By Dan Moffett
In 1996, Mike Hill lost a hotly contested election for the Highland Beach vice-mayor seat by a mere 12 votes out of nearly 1,200 cast.
On Jan. 23, becoming the new mayor of Briny Breezes was a lot easier.
By Dan Moffett
Five years and countless hours of deliberation in the making, the Briny Breezes’ comprehensive land use plan officially became the blueprint for the community’s future when it won the unanimous approval of the Town
Donna Clarke (left) is taking over the helm of the Briny Breezes library from Lu McInnes. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
Lu McInnes has closed the book on more than two decades as Briny Breezes’ town librarian.
And Donna Clarke is check
By Ron Hayes
BRINY BREEZES — During her 11 years in Briny Breezes, Elaine McCormick took part in community shows, parades and clubs. She was also active at St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church and VFW Post #5335.
And she earned a certificate fr
By Tim O’Meilia
The youngest person to be named mayor of Briny Breezes since Hugh David 50 years ago was unanimously appointed Oct. 24 by the Town Council. Gerry Devine, 38, a corporate attorney for Cisco Systems with offices in Fort Lauderdale,
In a rendering of the west side of A1A, a combination of building heights and uses could provide a unifying effect to the community. Drawing by Digby Bridges
By Tim O’Meilia
Someday, the main street of Briny Breezes could be dotted with winding vi
By Tim O’Meilia
BRINY BREEZES — Jerome F. Skrandel, who guided the mobile home town of Briny Breezes as its town attorney for nearly four decades, died unexpectedly Sept. 19 in Palm Beach Gardens, with his beloved family at his side. He was 84.
By Tim O’Meilia
Twice before, Briny Breezes Mayor Roger Bennett has threatened to quit because of ill health, but he always returned. Now he really means it.
Bennett, who has guided the town of mobile homes with a quick quip and a gentle hand for seven
By Tim O’Meilia
Police, fire and emergency services will cost more. But taxable property in Briny Breezes is worth less. And the town’s tax rate is already maxed out. So the Briny Breezes Town Council will ask the corporation that owns the town
By Tim O’Meilia
Ocean Ridge police will be patrolling the narrow streets of Briny Breezes, checking for unlocked doors and writing tickets for illegal parking at the beach for another three years.
The Briny Breezes Town Council unanimously app
By Tim O’Meilia
Budget managers in eight of nine South County coastal communities can exhale.
Taxable real estate values — the stuff property taxes are made of — continues to creep back toward pre-recession levels.
Taxable property values i
By Tim O’Meilia
The Palm Beach County Inspector General has begun an audit of the financial operation of the town of Briny Breezes.
A representative of the Inspector General’s audit division has met several times with the town staff in April an
The Briny Breezes Town Council will seek bids this month to provide police protection for the 488-mobile home town for the next three years or beyond.
For the past three years, the town has paid neighboring Ocean Ridge $185,000 annually for p
While the beauty salon is still there, the Town Hall has replaced the food store at the south end of town. 1954 File photo courtesy Joan Nichols
By Tim O’Meilia
Briny Breezes celebrated its 50th anniversary as a town with a banner and a slide
Briny Breezes is officially off the market.
The 43-acre mobile home park’s contract with New York law firm Duane Morris to sell the park expired March 1 and, with it, the park’s obligation to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees tha
By Tim O’Meilia
For the first time since the $510 million Ocean Land sale collapsed in 2007, the town of Briny Breezes took a careful first step toward allowing the town to be more than a mobile-home park.
After four public hearings and ques
Municipal elections will be held in a number of towns and cities in Palm Beach County on March 12. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Town or city clerks can provide answers to any election-related questions.
Briny Breezes
There is no electio
All four public meetings in March to discuss a new comprehensive plan for Briny Breezes will be held in the town’s community center at 5000 N. Ocean Blvd. at 4 p.m.
The town’s planning and zoning board will hold a public hearing March 7 and a regula
A waterspout came ashore over Briny Breezes on Feb. 9, tearing awnings off of three mobile homes. There were no reports of injuries.
LEFT: Residents gather on RuthMary Drive to share stories. One told of how she hid under the bleachers at the s
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Briny Breezes — Joan A. Ruopp of Briny Breezes and Bricktown, N.J., died Feb. 2. She was 80.
Born on Jan. 3, 1933, to Fred and Hazel Anderson in Elizabeth, N.J., she was a great source of comfort to many through her crisp sense of humor and lo