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By Steve Plunkett

    Buffeted by thousands of public records requests and dozens of lawsuits, mostly from two town residents, Gulf Stream now has a full-time staff attorney to handle the workload.
    7960682086?profile=originalEdward “Trey” Nazzaro, who as a paralegal at To

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By Willie Howard

    Sea turtles dug good numbers of nests on south Palm Beach County beaches and set a nesting record in Ocean Ridge during the 2016 season.
    But hot, dry weather is being blamed for a relatively low number of hatchlings from nests

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Related story: Boynton chief says Yannuzzi’s Briny role to differ from past

By Dan Moffett

    Briny Breezes council members say choosing the right police department to serve their town didn’t come down to questions about performance. The deciding

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By Dan Moffett

    Briny Breezes’ decision to end a longstanding relationship with Ocean Ridge and approve a contract with Boynton Beach for police 7960675064?profile=originalservices brings Chris Yannuzzi back to the town as a deputy marshal.
    But Boynton Beach Police Chief

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By Henry Fitzgerald
    
    The Coastal Star took home 17 individual awards in the Florida Press Association’s 2015 Better Weekly Newspaper Contest. The monthly newspaper, based in Ocean Ridge, competed in Division A: Over 15,000 circulation.
    The

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By Dan Moffett

    Ocean Ridge commissioners are waiting until the eleventh hour to approve a final budget for the new fiscal year while Town Manager Jamie Titcomb recalculates the numbers to try to correct a series of accounting errors.
    This is th

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    Ocean Ridge is hardening its defenses against Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, the two mosquito species known to transmit the Zika virus.
    During the Sept. 12 town meeting, commissioners unanimously approved a new $62,890 contract with Clark

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By Dan Moffett

    Briny Breezes moved closer in July to locking in long-term contracts for police and fire-rescue services.
    Briny and Boynton Beach have agreed to a 12-year fire-rescue pact that will cost the town $356,725 for the first year and i

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By Dan Moffett

    Elected officials from six coastal communities will have some difficult decisions to make in evaluating the results of a study that examines the feasibility of creating a barrier island fire district.
    The revised 130-page report

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By Dan Moffett

    Recent advances in technology could enable Ocean Ridge to move forward with a plan to install license plate recognition cameras along State Road A1A without the blessing of the Florida Department of Transportation.
    Ocean Ridge Po

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7960651062?profile=originalFresh tracks from a nesting sea turtle are seen at sunrise in Ocean Ridge.

7960651284?profile=originalSea turtle monitors Zachary Levitetz and Joan Lorne inspect loggerhead tracks and mark a nest in Gulf Stream.

7960651689?profile=originalSea turtle monitor Staci-Lee Sherwood marks the location of a log

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By Rich Pollack

    Plans to sprinkle license plate recognition cameras throughout the barrier island, derailed more than a year ago when the state refused to allow them on its rights of way, are getting new life thanks to advanced technology.
    Now

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