By Dan Moffett
Outgunned and outspent in the courts, six Delray Beach residents dropped their lawsuit against the developer of the Atlantic Crossing project, saying the fight had become too much.
“This was a monetary Goliath,” said Benita G
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By Tim Pallesen
Delray Beach taxpayers are facing a $93 million debt to pay the pension benefits of the city’s police officers and firefighters.
The debt has grown 276 percent since it was $33.6 million in 2007, forcing city commissioners t
By Mary Thurwachter
With property values beginning to rebound — up 1.6 percent over last year — Lantana will have a little more money to work with next year. Taxable property has increased from $678 million to $689 million.
In July after it
By Mary Thurwachter
A plan to convert two town-owned lots into a waterfront park and parking lot got the green light from the Lantana Town Council in June.
But several neighbors to the side-by-side lots, at 106 and 122 N. Lake Drive on the
By Tim O’Meilia
Police, fire and emergency services will cost more. But taxable property in Briny Breezes is worth less. And the town’s tax rate is already maxed out. So the Briny Breezes Town Council will ask the corporation that owns the town
By Tim O’Meilia
After months of discussing setting standards for seawalls, Manalapan town commissioners abruptly decided July 23 to scrap the idea.
“I’ve been getting a lot of pushback from residents on the seawall situation,” said Mayor Da
By Tim O’Meilia
“David’s Rules of Order” — Manalapan Mayor David Cheifetz’s five informal suggestions for civility and decorum during town commission meetings — lasted four months.
Now commissioners and residents have three pages of “public
By Tim O’Meilia
Manalapan town commissioners upheld Town Manager Linda Stumpf’s recommendation of a 3 percent salary increase for general employees, two part-time weekend police officers to patrol the beach and a six-car police fleet.
By a
By Tim O’Meilia
Ocean Ridge town commissioners will consider giving town employees a 3 percent raise, buying two police cars, a tree-trimming bucket truck and an all-terrain beach vehicle, and replacing the town’s outdated computer system — all i
By Tim O’Meilia
Local officials are hoping to shave months off a two-year environmental impact study that could lead to beach restoration in South Palm Beach, Lantana, Lake Worth and southern Palm Beach.
The $560,000 study is required to ge
South Palm Beach nonunion employees would get a $1,500 bonus and perhaps a cost-of-living increase under a $1.7 million budget proposed by Town Manager Rex Taylor.
In a budget message, Taylor asked council members to consider cost-of-living
By Jane Smith
Four companies submitted proposals last month in a bid to become the operator of the Lantana airport.
They are: Galaxy Aviation, Pahokee Airport, Saker Aviation and Sheltair Aviation.
The county’s Department of Airports is
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By Steve Plunkett
The Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency will give away land under the Little House Restaurant and the Oscar Magnuson house — the city’s oldest structure — to lure a Delray Beach law firm and jumpstart development downt
The Junior League of Boca Raton recently named its new board of directors for the 2013-24 year.
Its mission: to volunteer, raise money, help develop the potential of women and improve the community
through leadership and action. Photo: (front row)
Academy of the Arts middle-school students took center stage during three free performances
of ‘The Magical Land of Oz.’ Attendees included students from Title I and other area schools,
as well as the community-at-large. ‘We are so grateful for the
Local patrons, Boston natives and members of the Boca Raton Running Club (pictured above)
joined forces to raise money for The One Fund, a nonprofit organization established to aid
the victims and families affected by the Boston Marathon bombings. T
To strengthen cultural and culinary bonds, Delray Beach Mayor Cary Glickstein joined Miyazo, Japan Mayor Shoji Inoue
and his Sister Cities delegation for a July lunch at Caffe Luna Rosa in Delray Beach.
Joining them were Karen Granger, president and
By Steve Pike
If you’re looking for some great reading, try Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson, which tells the story of scientist Isaac Cline, one of the country’s first meteorologists, and the events leading up to the September 1900 hurricane that k
About 20 volunteers (including Gael Silverblatt, below, at left) took part
in a recent planting of mangrove seedlings just north of the Lake Worth Bridge.
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By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
A fisherman on a yellow and oran
