Special Report: Public water treatments can be a matter of taste
By Jan Norris
Terms like “undertones,” “balance” and “finish” are typical of wine tastings — but they also apply to any beverage. Last month, three tasters used them to help describ
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Surveyors began measuring the south part of Gulf Stream in mid-July after town commissioners voted unanimously to levy special assessments to put electric, phone and cable TV lines underground.
Sitting June 30 as the Board of
Town police have patrolled Gulf Stream’s newest 16.6 acres ever since annexation of the once-unincorporated pocket took effect March 15. Delray Beach, which contracts out fire-rescue service to the town, has answered calls for he
By Steve Plunkett
Delray Beach will charge the Town of Gulf Stream about $38,000 a year extra for fire-rescue service to Ballantrae condominiums, the 4001 North Ocean project and other recently annexed parcels.
Delray Beach city commissioners v
A surprise addition to the Town Commission’s July agenda made the mayor’s day.
“I’m here this morning not seeking a variance, not seeking an appeal, not seeking an exception,’’ state Rep. Bill Hager said after commissioners en
Mr. Coleman was a graduate of Dartmouth College. He joined
By Steve Plunkett
It’s official now—property owners in town will pay non-ad valorem special assessments to put electric, phone and cable TV lines underground, out of the view and away from wind and salty air.
Sitting June 30 as the Board of Eq
Tim O’Meilia
and Margie Plunkett
Cooperation was at the top of the menu for the first luncheon of mayors from South Palm Beach to Gulf Stream.
Mayor Ken Kaleel of Ocean Ridge organized the meeting at Callaro’s Prime Steak and Seafood
A Boynton Beach city commissioner’s saber-rattling over the March annexation caught town officials by surprise and caused weeks of uneasiness in Town Hall and the former county pocket.
Boynton Beach Commis-sioner Steve Hol
South County homes and businesses are still leaking taxable value, but this year it’s closer to a dribble than a dam break.
While eight of nine coastal towns lost more than 5 percent of their taxable real estate value in 2009, only Mana
More than 30 people attended a recent Gulf Stream Town meeting, some (in red shirts) to complain about undergrounding power line assessments. Photo by Jerry Lower
By Steve Plunkett
Wearing red, Gulfstream Shores residents kept up their assault on what
GULF STREAM — Sara Shallenberger Brown, the widow of the former chairman of the board for the company that makes Jack Daniel’s, Southern Comfort and Old Forester, died at her Kentucky home in April. She had just turned 100 years old.
Coastal mayors will meet for lunch this month to see how they might help one another, share or contract out police and other municipal services and perhaps trim town budgets in the process.
Basil Diamond of Manalapan began contacting
Nancy Cudahy Touhey sits with her granddaughters Helen (left) and Mia and her dog, Niña, in her fairy garden.
By Mary Jane Fine
“When the first baby laughed for the first time, his laugh broke into a million pieces, and they all went skipping a
Here is a list of when, and what, you can water.
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Gulf Stream’s plan to put all its utility lines — electric, telephone and cable — under ground has aroused the concerns of condominium residents worried about how much they will be assessed for the estimated $5.5 million project.
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After giving birth to her fifth son recently, Anna Sha
The towns of South Palm Beach and Highland Beach have more registered voters than they have actual flesh-and-blood residents. You can look it up.
The seaside enclave of Briny Breezes suddenly has 800 not-so-mobile homes, the U.S. Ce
Coastal voters flocked to the polls for March’s municipal elections in far greater percentages than their mainland brethren.
Countywide turnout was a meager 12.3 percent, meaning roughly 1 of ev
