Deck 84 is finally a reality, and Burt Rapoport’s new restaurant on the Intracoastal in Delray Beach appears to be a hit. After a soft opening in mid-November, the veteran restaurateur held two opening parties Nov. 18 and 19 and went pub
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Deck 84 is finally a reality, and Burt Rapoport’s new restaurant on the Intracoastal in Delray Beach appears to be a hit. After a soft opening in mid-November, the veteran restaurateur held two opening parties Nov. 18 and 19 and went pub
By Steve Plunkett
In the end, the firing was much quicker than the hiring.
Manalapan commissioners spent less than 70 minutes collapsing the duties of finance director into Town Manager Tom Heck’s job, dismissing him and offering Finance
Director L
By Steve Plunkett
Manalapan is once again looking at whether to put electric, cable and telephone linesunderground on the Point.
Mayor Kelly Gottlieb told commissioners she had learned that Gulf Stream was planningto bury its lines for about $16,
Fall has come and, with it, the season of higher-than-usual tides.
In the Intracoastal Waterway west of Ocean Ridge, for example, tides crested at 3.3 feet above mean low water levels in September. They’ll hit 4.1 feet with the new mo
By Christine Davis
Acqua Liana, the Tahitian-Fijian inspired estate at 620 S. Ocean Blvd. in Manalapan,
has been sold for $15.5 million by real estate developer and president of Venture Concepts International Inc, Frank McKinney.
Unveiled early
By Thom Smith
Colonel Sanders was the chicken king, but Michelle Bernstein may be the new queen, andif enough of her subjects seek an audience, it could be good news for the troubled Omphoy Resort just north of the Lake Worth bridge.
The rag
By Tim O’Meilia
Basil Diamond, the man who led the battle to revamp Manalapan’s voting system eightyears ago, is back on the Town Commission. But he isn’t the mayor, as many had hoped.
Instead, commissioners chose Vice Mayor Kelly Gottlieb, who wa
2009-10 tax rate: $2.80 per $1,000 taxable property value
Change in property value: 5.5 percent decrease
Total Budget (Operating and Capital): $3.5 million general fund budget; $20,765 library
Manalapan Mayor Tom Gerrard, who served on the Town Commission for more than six years, resigned suddenly July 28.
“Pressing family issues require that I spend extended amounts of time away from the town and the state,” he wrote in a
By Tim O’Meilia
Manalapan Mayor Tom Gerrard resigned abruptly Wednesday, delivering a five-sentence resignation letter to town hall just before 5 p.m.
“Pressing family issues require that I spend extended amounts of time away from the town and the
By Hap Erstein
Ask Nancy Barnett, managing director of the award-winning Florida Stage, what she will miss about the
Manalapan playhouse now that the company is leaving and she mentions the baby cr
Maybe it’s because she was a reading teacher and librarian “in another life.”
Perhaps it’s because she wanted to give back to her small hometown of five
years.
Whatever the reasons, when Joan Bernstein was asked to lead a fundraising drive
to updat
By Margie Plunkett
Sea turtles will continue to nest in peace under county regulation after Manalapancommissioners put off voting until year’s end on a turtle lighting ordinance that moves control to the town. The proposed ordinance is expected t
By Emily J. Minor
MANALAPAN — Eugenia P.
Strauss, a Michigan girl who left home for the lights and opportunities of
Hollywood when she was just 16 years old, has died after a brief illness. She
was 75.
Mrs.
Strauss lived in Manalapan for about 25
T. Clark Appleby of Manalapan crossed the finish line at the Boston Marathon in April to benefit Hanley Center, and addiction treatment and prevention center in West Palm Beach. The 23-year old ran a race time of 3:05:03 and raised more than $1,500
By Tim O’Meilia
Palm Beach County officials are pushing ahead with plans for a breakwater-and-groinproject along a 1.3-mile stretch of largely South Palm Beach shoreline despite critical reviews by federal agencies of a similar project along Singer
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
Manalapan commissioners welcomed new Town Manager Tom Heck with relief and a rapidlygrowing to-do list. Heck’s first meeting opened with the mayor’s response to accusations that he proposed a turtle protection ordinance for per
By Christine Davis
What goes around comes around, and, when it comes to coastal real estate, it lookslike it might be coming around again, observes Judi Lukens, a Realtor with Premier Estate Properties in Delray Beach.
“Across the board, we are
