By Tim Pallesen
Every registered voter in Palm Beach is eligible to vote in nine races on the Aug. 14 primary ballot. That’s a change from the days when primary elections were strictly closed elections for Republicans and Democrats to select their
palm beach county (212)
By Steve Plunkett
The Lake Wyman restoration project, dropped with a 4-1 vote by the Boca Raton City Council, could still be brought back to life.
“It’s never actually dead,” said Daniel Bates, the county’s deputy director of Environmental Reso
By Tim O’Meilia
The on-again, off-again breakwater plan for South Palm Beach’s eroding beach may yet have a faint heartbeat of revival.
Palm Beach County commissioners are set to discuss the future of beach restoration after other local and
This year, voters in the sixth biennial Read Together campaign sponsored by the Palm Beach County Literacy Coalition have chosen Last Train To Paradise, by Les Standiford, as the book they hope everyone will read.
The book, available in local l
By Antigone Barton
The predicament that Singer Islanders described to county commissioners in early February was one familiar to South Palm Beachers: “When I look down from my balcony,” as one resident put it, “all I can see is water.”
The plan
Bernie Marcus, chairman of the Marcus Foundation
and co-founder and former CEO of The Home Depot,
and his wife, Billi, announce their $25 million gift to
Boca Raton Regional Hospital. Images provided
By Tim Pallesen
With the new $25 million
By Steve Plunkett
Gulf Stream town leaders have abandoned hope of recovering any property taxes that residents of the annexed pocket are paying Palm Beach County for services they no longer receive.
At the town’s urging, County Commissioner Ste
Gulf Stream town officials are taking off the gloves in their quest to recover some of the tax money property owners in the annexed pocket paid Palm Beach County for 2011.
Mayor William Koch Jr. asked County Commissioner Steve
The on-again, off-again breakwater project to protect South Palm Beach’s eroding shoreline is back on the drawing board six months after Palm Beach County officials had declared it so much scrap paper.
“Finally, I have some good
Recreational boaters and snorkelers gather along the north side of Bird Island, where Manalapan residents say their presence can be a nuisance. Photos by Jerry Lower
By Steve Plunkett
The summer sun is hot, and so are neighbors of the Boynton Inlet.
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Cornucopia 04-Y’IV (2004), by Etsuko Tashima
By Greg Stepanich
The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens is one of Palm Beach County’s most interesting cultural outposts, and it’s playing host through October to an exhibit that tells us some
Faced with the inability to get a federal permit for above-
By Tim O’Meilia
Thirty-odd years ago, a barely teen-aged Geoff Pugh and his brother would climb down to the rocks at the bottom of the north jetty of the Boynton Inlet and spear fish until a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputy shooed them away.
Other da
A group of WXEL-TV supporters, including its president and CEO, its chief fundraiser and area education and media executives, have until Dec. 31 to work out a purchase agreement to buy the station from Barry University before
Seven years after it was put on the selling block, WXEL-FM finally sold to Classical South Florida after the Federal Communications Commission approved a deal with Barry University May 16.
The 40-year-old station, start
NOTE: Story has been corrected since printed to reflect the following date change:
• Changed the date of the June council meeting to the 21st, rather than the 28th, also to accommodate Flagello’s schedule.
By Tim O’Meilia
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Palm Beach County plans to use state money to expand a program of installing buoys and anchor pins along the shoreline in Boca Raton, Palm Beach and Ocean Ridge.
Commissioner Steven Abrams said the project,
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Florida Governor Rick Scott talked with Michael Bornstein, Lantana’s Town Manager, and dozens of other local officials during a whirlwind tour April 6 of three eroded Palm Beach County beaches. The Governor made no promises of any efforts the state
