By Dan Moffett
South Palm Beach voters will likely get the chance to make some significant changes to their town’s charter when they go to the polls in March.
At their Nov. 18 meeting, Town Council members gave preliminary approval to four amen
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By Dan Moffett
South Palm Beach council members have come to the conclusion that it doesn’t make much sense to have term limits in a town that has trouble finding candidates willing to serve in the first place.
“We’re not a very large town,” sa
A 1960s postcard of the Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn, when it was called the Palm Beach Hawaiian.
Courtesy of Janet DeVries
Mary Smith of Lantana stands in the parking lot of the Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn
on its final day of business Sept. 21. Smith w
By Dan Moffett
For decades, South Palm Beach has prided itself in being a coastal condo community with a down-home, small-town feel. But some of that laid-back charm and innocence appears about to be lost to the changing times.
Town Council mem
Paragon Acquisition Group has presented a plan to build 33 condos in a six-story building
over a parking garage on the site of the Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn.
Rendering provided by Kobi Karp
By Dan Moffett
After a false start last winter, Paragon
By Dan Moffett
Town Manager Rex Taylor likes to begin budget talks by taking a look at what’s happened to property values in South Palm Beach during the last decade.
In 2008, the town’s taxable value was $429.2 million.
Then came the reces
INSET BELOW: Robert Rizzotto
By Dan Moffett
South Palm Beach Councilwoman Bonnie Fischer knew the town police department had made a good hire in Robert Rizzotto when she caught him pulling extra duty at the Town Hall earlier this year.
“Shor
By Mary Thurwachter
SOUTH PALM BEACH – Former South Palm Beach Mayor Maurice “Maury” Jacobson, who in 2009 at age 87 was known as the oldest sitting mayor in Palm Beach County, died June 30. He was 93.
Mr. Jacobson was mayor from 2005 to 200
By Dan Moffett
South Palm Beach Mayor Donald Clayman says people shouldn’t be misled by the silence from the Paragon Acquisition Group since the developers pulled out of a March workshop on their Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn project.
Clayman says
By Ron Hayes
At 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 26, a 90-year-old real estate agent named Woody Gorbach took off from Palm Beach International Airport aboard a US Airways jet, bound for Washington, D.C.
At 8:20 that night, he returned.
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Police Chief Carl Webb and Town Clerk Yudy Alvarez were sworn in to their official positions. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Dan Moffett
Carl Webb’s career in law enforcement began in Pittsburgh during the 1970s when he volunteered as a reserve
By Dan Moffett
After a spate of hiring in recent weeks, the South Palm Beach Police Department is at full strength for the first time since last summer.
During a period of rare turnover, the department lost its chief last fall when Roger Cran
Council members reflected on the career and life of former Mayor Marty Millar, after word came from Lantana police that he had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on March 23.
Millar, 67, served four years as a town councilman and two year
Sacred Heart student Martina McManus, below with her mom, Kathleen, took this
prize-winning photo at the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.
Photos provided
By Emily J. Minor
She’s 11, which means she likes miniature golf a
SOUTH PALM BEACH — Natalie A. Kahler of South Palm Beach passed away on Feb. 5. She was 86.
Mrs. Kahler was born May 21, 1927, in Toledo, Ohio. Shortly after World War II, she was vacationing with her parents, in Hollywood, Fla. As she was st
By Dan Moffett
The South Palm Beach Town Council sent a clear response to a developer’s request to fast-track a condominium project on the site of the beleaguered Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn.
Not so fast, council members told the Paragon Acquis
South Palm Beach Town Council members Robert Gottlieb and Stella Gaddy Jordan kept their seats for two more years after no one came forward to oppose them in the March 11 election.
Gottlieb, 74, was appointed to the Town Council in November 2
By Dan Moffett
The close relationship between South Palm Beach and Lantana has gotten a little closer with the approval of a new working relationship between the two towns’ police departments.
South Palm Beach Town Council members unanimously
Carol Wittenberg
By Rich Pollack
Carol Wittenberg loves her 2013 Chevy Volt, a plug-in hybrid that runs on both gas and electricity.
“It’s environmentally friendly, it’s economical and it’s comfortable and quiet,” she says.
But when Witten
South Palm Beach patrol officer Nick Alvaro is retiring
after 30 years of public service.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
South Palm Beach patrol officer Jason LaForte (center)
displays his life-saver medal with (from left)
his mother Rosanna LaForte,
