Uncertain months ahead as deposed mayor faces corruption charges
By Mary Hladky
Over a dizzying two weeks in April, Boca Raton Mayor Susan Haynie was reprimanded and fined for ethics violations, arrested on state corruption charges, withdrew from the
By Mary Hladky
Gov. Rick Scott on Friday suspended Boca Raton Mayor Susan Haynie from office days after she was arrested on seven charges related to her city votes on matters that financially benefitted the city’s largest downtown commercial landown
By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton Mayor Susan Haynie was booked into the Palm Beach County jail April 24 on seven charges related to her city votes on matters that financially benefitted the city’s largest downtown commercial landowner.
Haynie, who on April
Outgoing Ocean Ridge Mayor Geoff Pugh is flanked by his daughter, Alexis, wife, Lisa, and son, Jonathan, at a special reception in Town Hall on March 5 to recognize his 15 years of service to the town. Jerry Lower/ The Coastal Star
Unofficial results, Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections
Mayor Cary Glickstein, the incumbent, is not running. Vice Mayor Jim Chard, the incumbent in Seat 2, has resigned that seat to run for the No. 5 mayoral seat against contender Shelly Embler Petrolia, whose term on Seat 1 has expired. — Steven J. Smi
By Steve Plunkett
Town commissioners in February continued a new crusade against approving “discouraged” elements in house plans, sending a proposal that already had been rejected once by the Architectural Review and Planning Board back to the archit
By Steve Plunkett
A request to paint garage doors black has Gulf Stream trying to discover the best way to keep design elements on its “discouraged” list from showing up in town.
The town’s architectural guidelines allow certain features, prohibit so
By Jane Smith
The city’s mayor says he will not seek another term in office.
Cary Glickstein has served as Delray Beach mayor for five years. He could have run a third time. During his first two-year term, voters approved a longer term for each commi
By Dan Moffett
For the first time in nearly two decades, Ocean Ridge won’t have Geoff Pugh playing some role in the town’s government.
Pugh decided not to seek another term on the Town Commission after holding a seat since 2003 and serving the last
By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton City Council members asked the Palm Beach County Commission on Ethics to clarify if Mayor Susan Haynie can vote on matters coming before the council that involve James Batmasian, the city’s largest commercial landowner.
By Dan Moffett
BRINY BREEZES — John “Jack” Lee arrived in Briny Breezes back in 1958 as an 8-year-old from Central Illinois and instantly forged what would be an enduring relationship with the mobile home park on the ocean. Mr. Lee would visit
By Rich Pollack
HIGHLAND BEACH — As mayor of Highland Beach from 1989 to 1993, Joseph Boulay made it a point to have an open-door policy and to try his best to solve any problem residents brought to him. “You could go to him with anything,” hi
By Jane Smith
Without seeing a budget, city commissioners agreed to lower the property tax rate slightly for the financial year that begins Oct. 1 while still expecting to take in an estimated $4.6 million more in tax revenues.
Delray Beach fin
By Steve Plunkett
Buoyed by its recent settlement of all public records litigation by resident Chris O’Hare, the town plans to cut its legal budget for the coming fiscal year by 30 percent.
Gulf Stream will set aside $400,000 for outside leg
By Jane Smith
Without seeing a budget, city commissioners agreed to lower the property tax rate slightly for the financial year that begins Oct. 1 while still expecting to take in an estimated $4.6 million more in tax revenues.
Delray Beach
By Mary Thurwachter
The tide is turning in Lantana, where the tax rate has remained at $3.24 per $1,000 of taxable value for 10 years. At its July 10 meeting, the Town Council set the proposed rate for 2017-2018 at $3.50.
The lone dissenter in
By Jane Smith
With a 15-minute soliloquy, Delray Beach’s mayor cast the deciding vote to keep the Community Redevelopment Agency board independent from the City Commission.
“The hasty manner in which we got here does not produce an envi
The city of Boca Raton’s municipal election will take place on March 14. The winners will serve three-year terms.
Mayors Forum
The Boca Raton Tribune will host a forum March 10 for residents to meet and learn more about the two candidates runn
By Steve Plunkett
Mayor Susan Haynie painted election rival Al Zucaro as a visionless complainer; Zucaro in turn said that under Haynie’s watch, problems in the city never get resolved.
And so it went at a candidate forum Feb. 6 sponsored by th
