By Rich Pollack
Every now and then, Lori Berman forgets the red Tesla Roadster she’s driving is not a typical set of wheels.
She’s reminded often, however, especially when someone in the car next to her at a stoplight pulls out a cell phone to gra
lantana (453)
By Margie Plunkett
The retreat property owned by the Catholic Cenacle Sisters will return to a residential land use after a deal to build a luxury resort on the Intracoastal property fell apart.
Council members voted Oct. 28 to restore the original
By Ron Hayes
Sally Leyenberger came to Delray Beach in 1978, and for the first decade or so, she was an average citizen. She did not attract attention. She did not spread stories.
And then, in 1988, Sally Leyenberger turned herself into a big re
The evolution of hurricane shutters
By Tim Norris
Rebuffing hurricanes is not an open-and-shutters case, Michael Bornstein concedes, but for most area residents, openings and shutters are weapons of choice.
Learning where and how to use them is
Looking at the steel Bahama shutters on Old Key Lime House, Mike Bornstein can picture their evolution: first, wood, with down-tilted slats to let in air and light; then steel, later treated for added strength, then aluminum, later extruded for the s
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 second2009-10 tax rate: $3.24 per $1,000 assessed property value
Change in property value: 17 percent decrease
Total Budget (Operating and Capital): $7.8 million general fund expenditures
Total prop
Lantana Town Council threatened to evict the county from Fire Station 37 if it didn’tagree to pay at least $55,000 plus utilities for its tenancy at the building.
Town Manager Mike Bornstein said early in August that he and the town attorney hadme
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
By Margie Plunkett
Lantana has approved a lease deal with the Lantana Athletic Association that gives ituse of a portion of the Sports Complex for free in exchange for maintaining the quadruplex for the next baseball and softball season.
“We han
By Tim O’Meilia
Let the music play on, play on, play on.
That’s the Lionel Ritchie All Night Longmessage most of the nearly 200 people who attended the Lantana Town Council meeting July 12 delivered.
By a 4-0 vote, music lovers and partygoers per
By Thom Smith
Heads turned. Hands waved. Horns honked.
Motorists and pedestrians from Sebastian to Boca Raton had no trouble recognizing thefamiliar cyclist during the first week of June. Steve Weagle was at it again, biking north to south to rai
By Margie Plunkett
A dozen kids in sports uniforms fidgeted outside Lantana Town Hall on a night late in June, while many of the 118 residents crammed inside to voice fears that the town’s youth will likewise be left out because the town can’t affor
By Margie Plunkett
The official word on estimated property values in Palm Beach County that came out in late May confirmed what many already anticipated as another down year for taxable
property values — and for municipal coffers.
Taxable values fe
For two decades, Florida Stage has brightened the cultural landscape far beyond its little corner in Manalapan. Inevitably, the magnitude of the little company has
grown, so its orbit had to expand.
On June 20, the last lines of the
By Margie Plunkett
A plan that would allow Lantana Police Chief Rick Lincoln to retire early received preliminary approval from the Town Council, a move that could shuffle
Police Department leadership to the tune of a $125,000 savings.
The ordina
By Thom Smith
Once known as sleepy Delray, it now seems like the town that never sleeps. A coupleof months ago we had Savor The Avenue, with diners at “long tables” down the middle of Atlantic Avenue. Then the Delray Beach Film Festival — the li
By Margie Plunkett
Seawall construction won’t threaten the sea turtles this year: The state turned down Lantana’s request to build after the start of turtle season, pushing back the start date to Nov. 1.
The town instructed its manager, Michael B
By Margie Plunkett and Mary Kate Leming
McKinley Park on Hypoluxo Island has been a meeting ground, a community “piazza” that’s brought parents and children together over the years to bond and play. A main
draw for families, the playground equipm
