By Rich Pollack
Six months ago, if you called the city of Delray Beach to ask if your wedding could be held on the public beach, the answer would have been a simple no.
Call today and the answer will be yes, weddings are allowed — sort of.
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Delray Beach voters can vote for a Seat 2 and a Seat 4 city commission candidate and on a charter amendment when they go to the polls March 13. The charter amendment asks voters whether they want to change commissioners’ and mayor’s length of office
Members of the congregation gather on a chilly Sunday for service at Old School Square.
By Tim Pallesen
Delray Beach’s fastest-growing new church began with a chance meeting in a downtown coffee shop.
The Avenue Church wasn’t intended. It wasn’
By Margie Plunkett
A beach pavilion in disrepair that’s the target of a resident fundraising campaign was rescued from becoming a budget casualty in February, the sole survivor of midyear budget cuts necessitated by a $3.2 million shortfall from t
By Margie Plunkett
Delray Beach is stocking up on garbage carts, getting ready for barrier island residents to have regular curbside trash pickup rather than rear-door service.
The island neighborhood is going to curbside pickup on April 1, whe
By Emily J. Minor
DELRAY BEACH — Marion Cousins, who ran a meticulous dress shop on Atlantic Avenue back in the day when proper ladies never wore slacks to lunch, died Feb. 13 after a brief hospital stay. She was 100.
Ms. Cousins was born July
The victorious Unity School Mustangs pose during the school’s Junior Varsity Invitational Basketball Tournament on Feb. 4. Back row, from left: Paul LaNoce, Coach Torres Young, Daniel Leathers, Erik Kretsinger, Gus O’Hare, Grant Navilio, Zach Petrol
First-grader Nong Ex Dubose, of Ocean Ridge, takes a closer look at the ‘Mosaic of Life’ mural, while second-grader Jason Falk, of Boca Raton, and sixth-grader Isabel Wheeler, of Delray Beach, look on. The mural is being created on the school campus
Playing off the Breakfast at Tiffany’s theme, a sales associate at the Linen Closet in Delray Beach, describes a product to a customer during the Breakfast at Linen Closet event in February.
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Beach Property Owners Association members and event organizers (l-r) Robert Currie, Mary Renaud, Susan Hurlburt and Jack Harris pose with a rendering of the proposed new beach pavilion. Held at 7 pm on March 7 at the Crest Theatre at Old School Squar
The 11th Annual Delray Beach Home Tour Benefiting Achievement Centers for Children & Families features distinctive homes in the Lake Ida area of Delray Beach from 10 am-4 pm on March 15. Admission is $100 and includes complimentary trolley service an
Wayside House 2012 Spring Boutique Committee (back l-r): Lydia Coyle, Susan Duane, Judy Wheatley, Robin Weiss, Karen Sywolski; (front l-r): Laila Young, Doli Rodriguez, Nancy Wibblesman, Event Co-Chairs Barbara Backer and Pat McElroy, Marie Dering, S
Officer Christine Braswell and Detective John Young of the Delray Beach Police Department demonstrate self-defense moves taught to women in the department’s free Rape Aggression Defense (R.A.D.) class. Sgt. Nicole Guerriero and Officer Andy Mintus r
St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church members Quinn Doyle, 11, and Deena Rizzo, 7, have fun on the bumper cars during the 45th Annual St. Vincent Ferrer Parish Festival in Delray Beach on Feb. 24.
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By Emily J. Minor
Stephanie Schappert, 18, started running because it was all in the family — everyone was doing it — and she got lucky.
She’s good at it. And she likes it.
“A lot of people have always thought that we were pressured into running, bu
By Tim Pallesen
The Caron Foundation has sued Delray Beach after the city denied its request to operate a sober house for seven recovering alcoholics and drug addicts at 1232 Seaspray Ave.
City commissioners also had responded to outrage over so
Kelly Barrette and Raymond Jones distribute signs around their coastal Delray Beach neigh-borhood to protest the planned upscale recovery houses for people with drug and alcohol addictions. Photo by Jerry Lower
By Tim Pallesen and Antigone Barton
As
By Thomas R. Collins
The decision by Caron Treatment Centers to spend millions of dollars to buy two large houses near the ocean in Delray Beach is designed to expand the organization’s addiction-treatment offerings.
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The big bully. The mean kid. We always knew them when we saw them.
Generations of parents helped their children face the school bully, and surviving their attacks came to seem a rite of passage to adulthood.
Somehow, though, the tough-it-out
By Steve Plunkett
Boca Raton and Delray Beach are tracking a bill in the Florida Senate that would establish rules for a “sober house transitional living home.”
The proposal by state Sen. Ellyn Setnor Bogdanoff, R-Fort Lauderdale, would require supe