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By Steve Plunkett

    Relations between the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District and the city withered in June like an unwatered lawn in the hot Florida sun.
    • District Chairman Robert Rollins listed a year’s worth of failed efforts to get th

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INSET BELOW: Prokos and Ursini (left); Sember and Massimino (right)

By Sallie James

    When it comes to saving lives, some Boca Raton Fire Rescue members stand out.
7960663062?profile=original7960663101?profile=original    City Council members recently recognized four of the department’s finest, lauding

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By Sallie James

    It’s finally settled. Boca Raton voters will get the chance to decide two issues on the Aug. 30 primary election ballot: Whether unexpected City Council vacancies should be filled by special election and whether council members sho

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By Steve Plunkett

    Boca Raton will add left-turn lanes on eastbound Palmetto Park Road at Mizner Boulevard and Northeast/Southeast Fifth Avenue and buy a train detection system so it can better time traffic signals at the Palmetto Park crossing.
  

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By Steve Plunkett

    The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District plans to hand-deliver a check for $3.7 million — as soon as the City Council finds time to accept it.
    The money is half the local cost of renourishing the city’s beaches from the

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By Steve Plunkett

    A week before a Dec. 7 joint meeting with City Council, commissioners of the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District abruptly pulled two items from the agenda.
    Off the table will be any talk of interlocal agreements to repl

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7960605677?profile=originalThe Mark at CityScape has been criticized for its appearance.

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By Mary Hladky

    Dissatisfied with the appearance of The Mark at CityScape and concerned that more buildings with design flaws will sprout up downtown, the Boca Raton City Cou

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7960606065?profile=originalBy Rich Pollack

    A redrawn blueprint for development of one of Boca Raton’s largest remaining parcels of undeveloped property got the green light to move forward from the City Council despite concerns from members of the Boca Raton Airport Authorit

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By Steve Plunkett

    After nearly four years, it’s time to talk about the future of Ocean Strand again.
    “Sometime this fiscal year we need to have that discussion,” Commissioner Robert Rollins told fellow commissioners at the Greater Boca Raton Be

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By Rich Pollack

    Rules governing the Boca Raton Airport Authority could soon be a bit more relaxed if bylaw changes hammered out last month receive final approval.
    In a meeting that had the potential to be contentious, Boca Raton Airport Autho

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By Sallie James

    They say three times is a charm. But in the case of Chabad of East Boca Raton, it was actually more.
    After four hours of lengthy discussion, City Council members late July 28 voted 5-0 in favor of the ambitious beachside orthod

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7960579690?profile=originalBy Sallie James

    A standing-room-only crowd of nearly 300 staunch supporters and fierce opponents of a controversial beachside synagogue packed Boca Raton City Hall last month for a showdown about the project’s site plan.
    But they left without r

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By Sallie James

    Calling Boca Raton’s recently negotiated police and fire contracts a “reset” and a compromise, City Council members in April voted 4-1 to approve the long overdue agreements.
    The contracts are expected to save the city approxima

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7960570861?profile=originalDuring a March 29 celebration held on the proposed site of the Harry and Celia Litwak Chabad Center,

Rabbi Ruvi New recognizes Irving Litwak (right) who donated $2.7 million for the property in his parents’ honor.

The sign in the background anticipat

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