Boca Raton has been awarded more than $1.3 million in state Resilient Florida grants to help pay for projects that protect against rising sea levels.
A $700,000 grant went to the Lake Wyman restoration and improvement program that includes mangrove ha
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By Rich Pollack
It took three tries, but Highland Beach finally has its first legislative appropriation in the town’s more than 70-year history.
Town leaders were recently notified a request for $650,000 to fund two projects through the Florida House
The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded the city a $16.35 million grant in September that will offset a substantial portion of the costs of building a Brightline train station and parking garage immediately east of the Downtown Library.
Under th
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach commissioners, faced with a 10.3% increase in how much they’re charged for fire service from Delray Beach, are questioning why they are being asked to pay for four additional firefighter/paramedics to be assigned to the
In the proposed ‘Boca Raton in World War II’ room, a one-fifth scale B-17 bomber protrudes from the ceiling. Boca Raton Army Air Field served as the Air Corps’ top-secret radar training facility during the war. Rendering provided
By Stephen Moore
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Researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute received $801,000 from the Florida Department of Health’s Bankhead-Coley Cancer Research Program to investigate the use of marine natural compounds as potential trea
By Jane Smith
Illustrated Properties recently received a $37,122 grant from the Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency to help build out its office space at 700 E. Atlantic Ave.
The money — payable after the work is done — represents 40 percent
By Mary Thurwachter
It’ll be a year in September since Hurricane Irma wreaked havoc in Lantana and so many other communities.
But this year, with the hurricane season already underway, the town is fortifying two of its buildings with the help of FEMA
By Rich Pollack
With a renewed emphasis on the environment, the Highland Beach Town Commission took two major steps aimed at preserving the town’s natural resources and revitalizing the shoreline within its borders.
Commissioners agreed in April to
Impact 100 Palm Beach County’s 547 members donated $547,000 to 10 South County charities during the Grand Awards Celebration that wrapped up the 2017-18 season.
Since the first Grand Awards Celebration in 2011, members have given $2,765,000 to effect
By Dan Moffett
When Briny Breezes Town Council members started considering the idea of creating a manager’s position two years ago, they thought that the right person for the job might be able to increase the amount of state and federal grant money t
By Rich Pollack
Thinking of crossing Atlantic Avenue or State Road A1A in the middle of the block or of riding your bicycle in traffic with earphones on?
If so, you may want to think again, because police officers in Delray Beach will be out in
By Jane Smith
The Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Sober Homes Task Force has met its year-end deadline to make recommendations to the Florida Legislature about possible changes to counteract sober home fraud.
The state attorney received a o
By Jane Smith
The fate of the historic Boynton Beach High School, which seemed certain to be saved earlier this year, is unsettled again.
At the Aug. 17 budget meeting of the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency, city commissioners sitting as
‘Educating and equipping citizens with opportunities to help themselves’ is one of the organization’s guiding principles, and its board did just that when it approved $1.2 million in community-impact awards to 23 area nonprofits. ABOVE: (l-r) Recipie
Boynton Beach’s Fire Rescue Department recently received a $37,332 grant from Palm Beach County Emergency Management. The department will use the money to replace or update three battery-powered stretchers, which have been in service for the past
The Delray Beach Public Library once again had its casual, comical event co-chaired by Heidi Sargeant and Becky Walsh. This year’s headliner was Paul Mecurio, who had guests rolling in their seats. ABOVE: Harvey and Virginia Kimmel pledged $100,000 i
Grass River Garden Club President Holly Breeden (second from right) presents a check for $10,000
to Sandoway House Nature Center. The grant is given to help the Nature Center take their animals
and programs on the road to schools that currently do n
More than 300 women made a big ‘impact’ when they gathered for Impact 100 Palm Beach County’s Grand Awards Celebration to award $320,000 to five nonprofits in South County. Three recipients were each awarded a $100,000 High Impact Grant. They were: A
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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