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
Swinging their partners in the Briny Breezes Auditorium are (from left)
Bev Robey, Eric Wolffbrandt, Gene Robey and Joyce Viola. Photos by
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
One day in 1948, way back when Briny Breezes was still just a ca
Living proof that opposites attract — Lia and Tyrone found one another in 2004.
“I like a beer on the beach and she likes classical piano,” Tyrone explains. She’s the introvert; he most definitely is not.
When they met, Lia was an Iowa farm girl with
By Angie Francalancia
Boynton Beach’s downtown fire station that helps serve Ocean Ridge and Briny Breezes will be brought back up to full staffing, thanks to a two-year grant that the Boynton Beach Commission agreed last month to accept.
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A good love story is welcome in every season, but February seems an especially appropriate time to highlight some of our local sweethearts. Since romance is in the air, we’re featuring three love matches: a darling couple joyfully embracing their sec
Dorothy McNeice first came to Briny Breezes in 1938.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
In October 1938, when Dorothy McNeice’s father first parked his 18-foot travel trailer in Briny Breezes, the little park with the oceanfront view had a single gas p
Butts, Bobby Dean age 84 of Fenton died Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at Avalon Hospice. Funeral service will be held 1 pm, Saturday January 26 at Tyrone Memory Gardens Mausoleum, 10260 White Lake Rd. Fenton, MI. Family will receive visitors from 1-4 a
ABOVE: Briny Breezes Mayor Roger Bennett, father of the bride, officiates at the wedding of Jo Bennett and Jay Kelley.
LEFT: The bride and groom take a golf cart tour of Briny Breezes as ring bearer Quinn Frakt rides along. More than 100 friends an
By Ron Hayes
BRINY BREEZES — Gertrude Dombroski started spending her winters here in 1953 and became a permanent resident in the early 1980s.
She left, from her own bed, at 6:35 p.m. on Nov. 28, holding her daughter’s hand as I’ll Be Home For Chris
NOTE: The January 17 public hearing on the Briny Breezes Comprehensive Plan has been postponed until early March based on revisions requested by the town attorney.
By Tim O’Meilia
More than six years ago, Briny Breezes residents voted to remake
By Ron Hayes
BRINY BREEZES — On a Monday morning more than a decade ago, David Blonda was sharing a golf cart with a new resident, collecting aluminum cans for the town’s recycling club.
“I asked him where he was from,” Blonda recalled, “and he sa
Several seawalls, pools and yards in Manalapan were seriously damaged by the constant pounding of the surf from Hurricane Sandy and seasonal high tides. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
More photos from Hurricane Sandy
By Tim O’Meilia
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Palm Beach County towns and other agencies tallied $7.5 million in damage and cleanup costs when Tropical Storm Isaac’s feeder bands tarried too long in August.
Last month, federal disaster officials agreed to reimburse local governments for 75 p
Janet and Jack Zurell enjoy a spin in their golf
cart in Briny Breezes. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
He made sure there were movies and she reported the news — along with a dollop of wit and inspiration.
Briny Breezes residents since 1990, Ja
By Tim O’Meilia
Former alderman Karen Wiggins was appointed unanimously by the Briny Breezes Town Council to fill the seat of Lowen Poock, who died unexpectedly Aug. 9.
Wiggins, who has lived in the town/mobile home park since 2004, was the only r
A surfer spins back to the ocean after riding a wave churned up by Tropical Storm Isaac near Briny Breezes. Aside from a few power outages and downed tree limbs, most of coastal Palm Beach County was spared damage by this storm. Jerry Lower / The C
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By Ron Hayes
BRINY BREEZES — For a time in the 1990s, Lowen Poock, a certified public accountant from Des Moines, Iowa, stayed at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Manalapan while he worked on a special project for Meisner Electric in Delray
By Angie Francalancia
Boynton Beach commissioners once again are talking about closing the city’s downtown fire station, which ran on more than half the calls in Ocean Ridge last year, to cut costs.
During budget workshops last month, Commi
By Tim O’Meilia
For the fourth consecutive year Briny Breezes homeowners likely will pay the maximum tax rate allowed by law — $10 for every $1,000 of taxable property value.
The tentative rate set by town aldermen after two budget workshops and a
