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By Mary Hladky

    Ten years after housing prices began cratering in the Great Recession, taxable property values in Palm Beach County have zoomed past their previous record high set in 2007.
    While the previous peak was $169.4 billion before t

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Along the Coast: Cocoanut dreams

Exhibit sprouts from fortunate photo find

7960721869?profile=originalNancy, Leila and Dorothy Pierson (l-r) display decorated coconuts at their roadside ‘Cocoanut Stand,’

possibly to raise money for the Red Cross during World War I.

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A hand-tinted photograph of what is now Stat

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7960708285?profile=originalThe Balsan estate became Casa Alva.

7960708091?profile=originalThe Pierce homestead. The man on the right is Hannibal Pierce. The other men are unidentified.

Photos provided by Historical Society of Palm Beach County

7960709061?profile=originalMichelle Donahue with the Brown Wrapper newsletter.

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7960702675?profile=originalYard work and construction trucks clog a Hypoluxo Island road.

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By Mary Thurwachter

    A proposed law that would limit parking on the street and public rights of way on Hypoluxo Island failed to garner a single vote from

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By Willie Howard

    The Lantana Town Council will listen to residents Jan. 9 on the long-standing problem of service trucks parking on Hypoluxo Island, in some cases narrowing roads to one lane.
    The council discussed the island’s traffic woes at i

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By Mary Thurwachter

    A pair of new license plate-reading cameras are destined for Hypoluxo Island. The Lantana Town Council voted Nov. 14 to replace the current readers for $29,257. In 2007, residents of Hypoluxo Island chipped in $28,000 to buy tw

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By Mary Thurwachter
 
    A weeklong effort by police and the Hypoluxo Island Property Owners Association to slow traffic on South Atlantic Drive was successful, Lantana council members learned at a June 13 town meeting.
    Lyn Tate, treasurer of HIPOA

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By Mary Thurwachter

    Lantana has had the same tax rate for seven years and that won’t change this year. The rate will remain at $3.24 per $1,000 of taxable value.
    “That’s something the people should be proud of,” said Mayor Dave Stewart at the

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