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By Dan Moffett
Manalapan is stepping up efforts to block a proposed beach stabilization project that would install concrete groins to capture sand in South Palm Beach.
On
By Dan Moffett
South Palm Beach taxpayers will see some eye-popping numbers when they look at their town’s proposed budget for 2017-18.
But the large figures come with back-stories that help put them in perspective.
Yes, the town has listed
By Dan Moffett
The manager and attorney for South Palm Beach are pleading with the Town Council to renew their contracts and end months of delays, false starts and postponed negotiations.
Town Attorney Brad Biggs and the council started talking
By Dan Moffett
South Palm Beach thought its long-awaited beach stabilization project was finally about to get started when Palm Beach County commissioners voted early last month to accept the town’s easements and begin permitting.
Then came
By Rich Pollack
Small coastal communities in South Palm Beach County continued to have few serious crimes in 2016, with most experiencing crime decreases last year, according to statistics released last month by the Florida Department of Law Enfo
South Palm Beach honored those who served with a Memorial Day program also dedicated
to two former Town Council members: Woody Gorbach, a World War II veteran who died
in October, and Vice Mayor Dr. Joe Flagello, who died suddenly in March. ABOVE: Me
By Dan Moffett
South Palm Beach Police Chief Carl Webb says morale among officers is better now than at any other time during his 28 years with the department.
“It’s a pleasure now instead of a war,” Webb told the Town Council on May 16. “Histo
By Willie Howard
A Boca Raton-based environmental consulting firm has taken over monitoring sea turtle nests on South Palm Beach, ending decades of monitoring by Robert Schonfeld, also known as the “turtle man.” Schonfeld started monitoring sea
By Dan Moffett
SOUTH PALM BEACH — Mark Harris worked for 27 years as a paramedic with the Fire Department of New York, and on 9/11 arrived at Ground Zero just as the second airplane hit the tower.
Years later, after retiring to South Palm Beach
By Dan Moffett
South Palm Beach council members have approved paying another $15,000 to architects for a conceptual rendering of what a new Town Hall might look like and for estimates of how much it might cost.
But they are a long way from sign
By Dan Moffett
There will be no beach stabilization in South Palm Beach or Lantana for at least another year, Palm Beach County environmental officials say.
“It’s going to be a whole year late now,” said Bob Vitas, South Palm’s town manager
Plans for the new seven-story building at 3550 South Ocean call for floor-to-ceiling windows
in every unit to take advantage of the views.
Rendering provided
By Dan Moffett
Don’t ask Joseph A. McMillan Jr. how many units he’s sold at 3550 South O
By Dan Moffett
South Palm Beach has 15 of the 16 easements it needs to get its beach stabilization project moving.
But that’s not enough. It will take all 16, signed and returned, Town Manager Bob Vitas says.
“Nothing can happen until everyo
By Dan Moffett
SOUTH PALM BEACH — Vice Mayor Joseph “Joe” Flagello approached his role on the South Palm Beach Town Council with a bountiful supply of self-deprecating humor. He liked to joke about the council’s division of labor. Mayor Bonnie
By Dan Moffett
South Palm Beach’s long-awaited beach stabilization project will become longer awaited still — unless the town is able to close an easement deal with oceanfront homeowners very soon.
The town has until March 8 to persuade a d
Penny Davidson, known around South Palm Beach as the town’s unofficial artist-in-residence,
unveiled her latest mosaic on Feb. 24. Davidson has created dozens of public art pieces
installed throughout the town over the years and says this one depicts
By Dan Moffett
A divided South Palm Beach Town Council grudgingly voted to give itself a modest pay raise on Feb. 28, ending months of vacillation and often spirited debate.
With final approval of the new ordinance, council members will see
By Dan Moffett
South Palm Beach Vice Mayor Joe Flagello is promising residents “an action-packed, fun-filled agenda” for their Feb. 28 town meeting.
After being sidetracked for months with other business, the Town Council is planning to tackle
By Dan Moffett
A divided South Palm Beach Town Council has given preliminary approval to an ordinance that will raise the pay of council members and the mayor, beginning after the March election.
The measure increases the mayor’s monthly salar
Mike Felice fills a trash bag with debris as Dennis Aten picks up a flip-flop on the beach.
Most days produce a few bags’ worth of trash along the beach.
One odd finding is a plastic bottle cut in half.
Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
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