Commissioners are considering budget cuts and a reconstituted fire fee to make up a $3.2 million shortfall resulting from the defeat of a fire assessment after vehement public protest.
The panel directed City Manager David Harden to work toward a 50-5
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By Margie Plunkett
The question for Delray Beach voters this year: Should commission terms be lengthened to three years from the current two years?
Commissioners voted to add the question to the March 13 election ballot. “The commission is onl
By Angie Francalancia
Delray Beach police have closed their investigation into the April fatality in which a bicyclist was killed on A1A by a truck. The driver was not at fault, and police have no basis to charge him, said Sgt. Richard Jacobson, w
By Margie Plunkett
To meter or not to meter, that was the question at two Delray Beach meetings last month intended to generate ideas that will get the city closer to resolving its longtime parking issues.
More than 50 merchants, restaurateurs
By Emily J. Minor
Feeling old, like you’ve lived in Florida since the beginning of time?
Think again.
Human bones unearthed at an ocean-side estate construction site in Delray Beach are those of an adult and an adolescent and are probably ab
By Liz Best
DELRAY BEACH — Devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and dear friend to many, Ruth Houseman Thompson died peacefully at her home in Delray Beach on Christmas Day, 2011. She was 93 years old.
Mrs. Thompson was preceded in
By Antigone Barton
The beach changes every day. The routine of Delray Beach residents Carolyn Hoffman and her husband does not.
The Tennessee transplants walk the Delray shoreline at low tide, scanning the sand for trash and treasures.
They
By Christine Davis No muss. No fuss. Unlike many interior decorators, Suzanne Rheinstein prefers to keep decor pretty, comfortable and simple.
Sharing the development of her design style, she’ll be speaking at the Crest Theatre in Delray Beach
2011 Laugh with the Library: (l-r) Becky Walsh, co-chair; Mark A. Peterson, Bank of America (platinum event sponsor); Comedians Angela Manfredi & Eddie Brill; Brenda Pumillia, Private Jewelers (platinum event sponsor.)
The 2012 Laugh with the Library
Psychotherapist Elaine Donaghue (right) of Ocean Ridge
and Sherry Weinschenk at the Center for Healing and
Expressive Arts in Delray Beach. Photo by Kurtis Boggs
By Paula Detwiller
Can participating in an art-related exercise be as cathartic a
By Antigone Barton
Decorated with photos of the “calming Atlantic Ocean,” a brochure for a proposed residence for recovering addicts promises: “You can’t get more private than this — gated and secure with no signage. Anonymity and discretion s
Staff Report
A group of beachside homeowners is mailing a flier to every house in eastern Delray Beach that outlines its efforts to prevent a clinic from housing large numbers of people in recovery in single-family neighborhoods. The mailing a
If there’s one character trait that runs through Harold “Sonny” Van Arnem’s life, it’s determination.
As a teenager, he was determined to make the football team even though he’d never played the game. He achieved his goal, playing alongside futur
Caron Treatment Center video: Ocean Drive | Ocean_Drive_brochure.pdf
By Tim Pallesen
Neighbors weren’t aware last January when Caron Treatment Centers applied to operate a top-tier sober house steps from the ocean.
They weren’t aware a few weeks la
By Tim Pallesen
Catholics were few in number when the Delray Beach Catholic Women’s Club started the first parish.
St. Vincent Ferrer Church celebrated its first Mass at the old Delray Theatre in 1941.
Today, the region from Boynton Beach to Boca Ra
Caron Treatment Center video: Ocean Drive | Ocean_Drive_brochure.pdf
By Margie Plunkett and Tim Pallesen
Beach area residents rallied in December in protest of planned luxury beach-side sober houses, filling commission chambers at two meetings and
By Thom Smith
For three decades, Lou Tyrrell has generated hard-hitting drama in Palm Beach County, first with the Theatre Club of the Palm Beaches, then with the Pope Theatre and with The Florida Stage, until last June, when the curtain fell with a
By Rich Pollack
The city of Delray Beach now has a new high-tech weapon in its battle against trash-can overflow.
For months, representatives from the Beach Property Owners’ Association have voiced concerns about trash spilling out of cans alo
Delray Beach Fire-Rescue veteran Danielle Connor was named chief in December, following the resignation of David James effective Nov. 12 after extensive absences due to health issues.
Connor has been with the Delray Beach Fire-Rescue since 1993 and ha
By Margie Plunkett
Boston’s continuing restaurant renovation withstood a neighbor’s appeal before the City Commission, but not before the establishment gave up a planned outdoor lobster cooker.
Commissioners later required an additional conditiona
