Boynton Beach’s city manager is contemplating history — more specifically whether to proceed with an ad hoc committee’s recommendation to create a Historic Preservation Board and to hire a preservation planner to run the show.
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In the weeks and months after Nov. 22, 1963, Mrs. John F. Kennedy received more than a million letters.
Expressions of shock at her husband’s assassination and sympathy for his family arrived at the White House from world leaders and
By Ron Hayes
On Feb. 7, 1964 — only ten weeks after the assassination of JFK — a shaggy pop group called The Beatles landed at the recently renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, and that new generation of Americans he had ins
The Storybook House contest
To view the ‘Storybook House’ and vote for your favorite $10,000 design proposal, you are welcome to attend one of two open house events:Nov. 7 – noon-2 pm
Nov. 14 – 2-4 pm.
The house is located at 321 S. Atlantic
Corrections
An article about the Storybook House on Hypoluxo Island that appeared in the December issue misstated the date that the first bridge to the island was built. The first wooden bridge was constructed in 1925.
In a photo appearing with the s
By Mary Thurwachter
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Name: Richard Lincoln
Age: 60Years in Lantana: 10
Past Life: Began his police career in the city of Delray Beach, where he served for 23 years, including a year as interim chief in 1990; served as Palm Beach County Sheriff Robert Newmann’s secondBy Antigone Barton
A casual passerby might have trouble imagining the battered old building indowntown Boynton Beach as the vibrant gathering place city commissioners hoped for at their August meeting.
But coastal residents who went to high scho
1921 — Town of Lantana is incorporated with a population of 100 residents.
Jan. 12, 1925 — Daniel McCarly becomes the town’s first police chief. In January 1927, McCarly and the town’s past treasurer are held on charges of disturbing the peace dur
1928 — Building used as a shelter during 1928 hurricane. The second-floor auditorium collapses during the storm. No one was injured.
1929 — First hiBy Mary Thurwachter
As manager of the Gulf Stream Golf Club, Kevin M. Bauer has become adept at politely saying no to brides-to-be who dream of holding their wedding receptions at the clubhouse. Those kinds of requests come often and anyone whoBy Mary Thurwachter
In the early 1940s, Michigander Ruth Jones was a single lady in her 20s who began traveling to Florida with hercousin. Her aunt owned the Old Dutch Mill restaurant on Federal Highway, the very spot she eventually met her sp
By Mary Thurwachter
On a sunny afternoon in May, Jestena Boughton and Hilary Roche converse in a long narrow office at the Colony Hotel. Lucy, the beagle-corgi mix Jestena recently
adopted, keeps an eye on things between snoozes.
The women are
By Antigone Barton
The hour was late and the Boynton Beach commissioners bleary-eyed enough to decidepostponing a discussion on budget matters was a good idea.
Still, the decision to give a symbolic nod to historical preservation by OK’ing$18,0
Private Clubs — The Manalapan Club: An occasional history series
Back in 1957, Eisenhower was president, Leave It To Beaver premiered on TV, and Elvis was shaking, rattling and rolling
his way toward becoming the King of rock