Overflow crowd welcomes new council as incoming mayor lays out his agenda
Council members (l-r) Adrian Burcet and Sandra Beckett, Mayor Rafael Pineiro and members Fran Attardi and Ray McMillan attend the first council meeting after an election in wh
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Two maxims stand out from South County’s March 10 municipal races: Elections have consequences and every vote counts. Those maxims were true in one of the area’s smallest towns and in its biggest city.
Boca Raton voters squashed plans for a major pr
Mayor ousted as three newcomers win seats; incumbent ’did not expect this at all’
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By Brian Biggane
In a surprising vote that all but ended the effort in South Palm Bea
No more dog ban — The first official action initiated by newly elected South Palm Beach Vice Mayor Fran Attardi was a proposal to remove the ban on dogs on Town Hall property, including signage. The ban had been in place since 2023.
Attardi said earl
House District 87 includes most of Manalapan, the eastern part of Lantana, plus South Palm Beach and points north to Juno Beach.
Source: Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Office, unofficial results
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
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
Related: Election could decide fate of Town Hall construction plans
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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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