March 13 update: After a machine recount on Friday, the South Palm Beach Town Council race stayed the same as it had been on election night on Tuesday. Adrian Burcet expanded his second-place lead to four votes, creating a big enough spread between h
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Local municipal elections at a glance
March 10 elections, with polls open 7 a.m.-7 p.m., are:
Boca Raton: Mayor, three City Council seats and referendums on downtown campus and police headquarters
Delray Beach: One City Commission seat
Gulf Stream: F
South Palm Beach Mayor Bonnie Fischer (center) chats with residents who attended a Feb. 10 candidate forum. She joined Vice Mayor Monte Berendes and Council members Sandra Beckett and Elvadianne Culbertson in meeting prospective voters. Brian Biggan
Manager gives Town Hall update — Although the future of a new Town Hall may be affected by South Palm Beach’s March 10 election, Town Manager Jamie Titcomb delivered an update on the latest news about the project and a new timeline at the Town Counci
Turtle time is coming, so let’s talk elections.
March marks the start of the annual sea turtle season, when beach lighting dims and stakes marking buried turtle nests begin sprouting along the shoreline.
It’s also municipal election season, when loca
Town Hall design delivered — Maria Zappas-Porter, a frontline designer for CPZ Architects, told South Palm Beach Town Council members at their Jan. 20 meeting that the 146-page set of site plans for the new Town Hall was delivered on Jan. 16 and is a
Republican Jon Maples and Democrat Emily Gregory will face off in a special election March 24 to replace former Rep. Mike Caruso in the Florida House.
That election comes after the current annual legislative session is expected to end.
Maples, a fin
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By Brian Biggane
The seemingly endless on-again, off-again struggle to build a new Town Hall for South Palm Beach will be by far the most important is
Related: Election could decide fate of Town Hall construction plans
Related: Mayor's race election candidate profiles
Candidate profiles were compiled via telephone interviews. Candidates were asked to supply personal information regarding their age
“From Hate to Hope: My Journey Beyond White Supremacy” is the title of a lecture by Frank Meeink, formerly a prominent white supremacist, offered by Chabad of South Palm Beach at 3 p.m. Feb. 15.
The former skinhead became a Jewish activist after ser
A special statehouse election primary will be held Jan. 13 for the District 87 seat that was vacated when former state Rep. Mike Caruso resigned his position after being appointed Palm Beach County’s clerk of court and comptroller by Gov. Ron DeSanti
By Brian Biggane
Even as it continued planning toward the construction of a new Town Hall, the South Palm Beach Town Council received sobering news from Town Manager Jamie Titcomb about another significant expenditure: the new wastewater lift station
Council considers raises — The South Palm Beach Town Council addressed its own salary structure for the first time in four years at its December meeting.
The council settled on raises that will up the mayor’s $1,000 monthly salary to $2,000 and more t
By Brian Biggane
The first South Palm Beach mayoral race in recent memory is shaping up after citizen activist and Town Hall project critic Rafael Pineiro filed his papers on the first day of eligibility in early November for the March 10 election.
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Town Hall plans stay the same — After architects gave one last go at coming up with ideas to shrink the size of South Palm Beach’s new Town Hall, council members voted unanimously to keep with the earlier plan.
The Town Council, seemingly alarmed tha
Patrick Lamb plays the saxophone on the beach near his home in South Palm Beach. He’ll perform his longtime Christmas concert, which has a Charlie Brown theme, on Dec. 17 at Old School Square in Delray Beach. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
While Patri
Manufactured panels untested against storm surge, council hears
The proposed two-story South Palm Beach Town Hall is about 11,000 square feet. A consultant told council members that making it smaller would require another design on a project the town
A special election to fill the seat of former state Rep. Mike Caruso will be held March 24, four days after the Florida Legislature is scheduled to adjourn for 2026. In setting the timetable, Gov. Ron DeSantis also said a primary election for the Hou
Gail Speckamp of South Palm Beach holds a photo of her late husband, Rudy, a Vietnam veteran, alongside a table of her creations. Speckamp bakes for hospitalized veterans on an almost daily basis as her way of showing appreciation for their sacrifice
