Ruth Stevens plays viola and is the co-founder
of the Lyric Chamber Orchestera. Photo by Tim Stepien
By Steve Plunkett
The Lyric Chamber Orchestra has a new conductor, a new soprano and a new focus: After nine seasons, it’s going pops.
But
highland beach (729)
Bryason Realty Corp. President Charles Shane,
with his two dogs, Shane (left) and Riley, was named
the chamber of commerce’s Business Leader of the Year.
Photo by Tim Stepien
By Linda Haase
“A lot of people around town know me as the guy with
Highland Beach Election: Candidate profiles
By Steve Plunkett
The city clerk of Peoria, Ill., regrets e-mailing a joke about a “Texas girl” (a Mexican and an Arab drinking in a bar) from her official computer to Highland Beach Town Clerk Beverly
Election Results:
Mayor/Commissioner
Bernard Featherman - 440 votes, 51.28%
Jim Newill - 418 votes, 48.72%
Highland Beach Election: Regrets extend to Illlinois in e-mail flap; former Ocean Ridge manager filling in
Voters will elect one mayor/comm
Reinaldo Padrino, seen under the Spanish River
Boulevard bridge, is a commercial diver and bridge
inspector who writes short stories and works
with a writers group at Highland Beach Library.
Photo by Tim Stepien
When Reinaldo Padrino talks abou
By Liz Best
HIGHLAND BEACH — Ferdinand “Ferd” Maggiore, known and loved among family and friends for an engaging sense of humor, his masterful storytelling and a love of all things Italian, died Feb. 4 in Delray Beach after suffering a stroke. He w
By Steve Plunkett
Nestled among Highland Beach Town Manager Dale Sugerman’s e-mail last July was a message he wasn’t supposed to see: a collection of jokes Town Clerk Beverly Brown forwarded to him by mistake via the town’s official e-mail.
Sugerma
By Steve Plunkett
A 20-year-old man crossing A1A at the Highland Beach Club crosswalk was struck by a car on New Year’s Eve and hospitalized.
Casuarina snowbird Alan Zuniss, 71, told the Florida Highway Patrol his sandal got caught on the car’s bra
Firefighters extinguish a blaze on a boat at Delray Harbor Club Marina. One man died in the fire. Photo courtesy of Delray Beach Fire-Rescue
By Rich Pollack
The 32-foot cabin cruiser, The Quarterdeck, had finished refueling at the Delray Harbor Club M
Marliss Hadeed, who has lived in Highland
Beach nearly 30 years, heads the FAU Foundation's
University Club. Photo by Tim Stepien
By Mary Thurwachter
After Hurricane David blew into Palm Beach County in 1979 — just in time to ruin Labor Day wee
By Mary Thurwachter
HIGHLAND BEACH — Friends say Anne Iffland Ryan was a loyal friend, a quick-witted conversationalist, a competitive bridge player and an avid golfer.
Known as “Nancy,” Mrs. Ryan died on Jan. 14 at the age of 90.
The only child o
By Steve Plunkett
Uncertainty over how long Dale Sugerman will remain town manager led town commissioners notto change the employee evaluation system.
“I don’t think we should make changes of anything that would j
Flossy Keesely lives in Highland Beach with her Yorkie, Schatzi.
Photo by Tim Stepien
By Scott Simmons
The phone doesn’t stop ringing at Flossy Keesely’s Highland Beach home.
Brrrring!
“Ah, so good to hear from you.”
Brrrring!
“Definitely! Plan to be
The county’s new ethics watchdog office could cost the town of Highland Beach up to $10,848 in its first year.
“We do not know yet which particular contracts might be exempted from the fee, and there’s going to be some that are exempt
Betty-Jane Lee, a 71-year member of the Daughters
of the American Revolution, sips tea during
a recent meeting of the Estahakee Chapter at the
Highland Beach Holiday Inn. Photos by Tim Stepien
By Ron Hayes
If you believe the Da
By Steve Plunkett
Highland Beach’s police force has taken a cosmopolitan turn in recent months.
The latest hires are Jon Alvarez, who was born in the Dominican Republic, and Tatsuaki Hayashi, a native of Japan.
“We’re building a great, diverse little
By Scott Simmons
Walk away from a meeting with Sandra and Bernard Meyer, and you remember the laughter.
But behind the laughter is a formidable advocacy for the arts.
“If I could clone them, and if other arts organizations could clone them, the world
HIGHLAND BEACH — Ocean-front property owners would pay roughly three-fourths the cost of keeping beaches clean under a proposal being groomed by the town’s Beaches and Shores Advisory Board.
The plan calls for Highland Beach to establ
There’s no question what voters in the coastal towns thought about the new ethics ordinance that includes oversight by Palm Beach County’s inspector general. They overwhelmingly voted “Yes.”
But opinions among the town leaders run
It’s a time of reflection.
It’s a time to look back at the year so far and to think about what remains.
And it’s a time for gratitude.
I turn to this newspaper sometimes, when I need to get my priorities straight — to look back on just how mu
