Staff report
While Florida is prohibiting its towns and cities from banning gas-powered leaf blowers, Delray Beach officials hope they’ve got another way of giving residents a break from the roar of those machines.
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By John Pacenti
Not all noise is equal in Delray Beach.
For people on the barrier island, the roar of gas-powered leaf blowers is the chief concern. For those who live near downtown, it’s the establishments that blast music late into the night or rev
I am in sympathy with the discontent and dismay expressed with regard to the omnipresent use of blowers. This ubiquitous tool can be heard anywhere and everywhere at any time. Its unregulated use has become a public nuisance.
However, the article in
A county employee uses a gas-powered blower to clear leaves and twigs from a path in Gulfstream Park. BELOW RIGHT: Jim Reynolds, with his wife, Susan Beil, says the noise is ‘like an explosion of sound.’ Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
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By Dan Moffett
Controversial brainstorms that hatch in Palm Beach have a way of drifting south to Manalapan.
So when the Palm Beach Town Council moved to consider leaf blower legislation recently, it wasn’t surprising that before long the idea
