By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
We’ve had a long, hot
delray beach (2236)
By Margie Plunkett
The Delray Beach City Commission’s decision to explore turning to the Palm BeachCounty Sheriff’s Office for police protection was dropped as quickly as it was launched early last month, deflated after the panel learned that see
Delray Beach has set a course to boost the price of storing a sailboat on the beach.
Commissioners passed an ordinance on first reading Aug. 17 to increase the annual fee forstoring a sailboat on the municipal beach to $250 plus sales tax, up fro
2009-10 tax rate: $7.19 per $1,000 taxable value
Change in property value: 12.7 percent decrease
Initial Budget Target (Operating and Capital): $100.1 million, as per Aug. 3.
Total proposed cuts/savi
By Thom Smith
Colonel Sanders was the chicken king, but Michelle Bernstein may be the new queen, andif enough of her subjects seek an audience, it could be good news for the troubled Omphoy Resort just north of the Lake Worth bridge.
The rag
By Ron Hayes
In the fall of 1936, twocountry boys arrived in Columbus, Ohio, to begin their freshman year at the
state university.
Robert Neff was from
Canfield; William Saxbe from Mechanicsburg.
They became friends, fraternity
brothers and, seven
Delray Beach commissioners approved a tax rate slightly higher than last year’s, but hope to lower it a little by making more budget cuts.
Commisioners can still reduce the preliminary rate of $7.41 per $1,000 of assessed property va
By Dianna Smith
As the sun rises each morning, when the water is calm and other people are still sound asleep, Jim and Sande Strong peer across their deck and are reminded why they are some of the luckiest people in Delray Beach.
Paradise is in
By C.B. Hanif
Rev. Aaron Janklow arrived at the First Presbyterian Church of Delray Beach doingwhat any congregation wants of a new clergyman. The result is TnT — or Twenties ’n’ Thirties — the popular young professionals group he leads.
The n
By Margie Plunkett
A recent study of parking in downtown Delray Beach would remove a feature thatsome merchants believe keeps the shopping area bustling — free parking.
The study by Kimley-Horn Associates Inc., which was presented at community m
Let’s face it, chefs are sexy, the new rock stars. And for those who love TV dinners, Top Chef is the ultimate. Culinary gladiators square off with saucepans and skewers in a wild and tasty quest for fortune and fame. The latest series
By Margie Plunkett
Delray Beach finished sifting through its trash in July, ending an investigation ofrefuse hauler Waste Management’s billing that turned up about $76,000 due the city and several dysfunctional business practices. No impropriety
The Mediterranean fruit fly invasion is likely on its last wings, according to Mark Fagan, spokesman for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services — the agency responsible for containing the pest.
“We did a full l
By Emily J. Minor
DELRAY BEACH — Scott
Ellington, a Florida native who grew up in Panama City and always loved the
water, died in July after a battle with a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
He was 66.
Ellington,
who lived in coastal Delray Bea
DELRAY BEACH — Dr. Peter T. Janulis struggled with his health recently, spending the last four and a half months in and out of Bethesda Memorial Hospital. He and
his wife, Lyn, knew his heart condition was very serious, but he h
Picturesque outside and serene within, the First Church of Christ, Scientist sanctuary almost belies its amazing journey from an Air Force base in Boca Raton to its
200 SE Seventh Ave. home in Delray Beach. The January 1949 move was a
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
A recently released study of Delray Beach parking got a stamp of approval — inconcept — by the city’s Parking Management Advisory Board, but the panel still wants to discuss major areas of the proposal before it’s put into
A Mediterranean fruit fly has been found in a trap in the 100 block of Andrews Avenue in Delray Beach. This is the first detection of the pest outside of Boca
Raton, according to the Florida Department of Agriculture.
Medflies are an invasive spec
By Tim O’Meilia
Walter Gregory Howarth, Jr., a World War II hero and prison camp survivor who becamethe police chief in his New Jersey hometown, died June 19 in his adopted home at Seagate Towers in Delray Beach. He was 88.
Mr. Howarth, known as
