By Ron Hayes
SOUTH PALM BEACH — Penny was a sorority pledge at Newark State Teachers College. Sol was in the Navy.
“I’ve got a nice brother,” his sister said. “Would you like to meet him?”It was 1947. They went dancing at Meadowbrook.
Two years late
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By Tim O’Meilia
Best case scenario: seven submerged groins and a beach 50 feet wider in South Palm Beach and Lantana by February 2016.
That’s not as much as everyone wants, but it’s likely the most anyone’s likely to get.
South Palm Beach Mayor Donald C
By Tim O’Meilia
South Palm Beach Town Council members will hold the tax rate to the current level and give non-union employees their first pay increase in years if they approve a $1.7 million budget proposed by Town Manager Rex Taylor.
The council will
South Palm Beach and Manalapan police officers were awarded commendations in August from their town lawmakers.
Lt. Nick Alvaro of South Palm Beach was honored for guiding the police force to third place in a statewide Law Enforcement Challenge, earn
By Tim O’Meilia
Local officials are hoping to shave months off a two-year environmental impact study that could lead to beach restoration in South Palm Beach, Lantana, Lake Worth and southern Palm Beach.
The $560,000 study is required to ge
South Palm Beach nonunion employees would get a $1,500 bonus and perhaps a cost-of-living increase under a $1.7 million budget proposed by Town Manager Rex Taylor.
In a budget message, Taylor asked council members to consider cost-of-living
By Tim O’Meilia
Condominium entrance sign lettering and logos may be a bit larger under South Palm Beach’s new sign code, but Town Council members insist on being the deciders on variances.
The council agreed to revamp the code at its June 25 m
By Tim O’Meilia
The newest plan for saving South Palm Beach’s fast-eroding shoreline is a series of seven buried groins dotting the beach from the Tuscany condominium to the Ritz-Carlton resort.
At least, that’s what the computers say.
“There’s enough
By Emily J. Minor
SOUTH PALM BEACH — Henry Sullivan “Harry” Cahill, a corporate accountant who retired young and moved to Florida so he could golf every day, died May 4 at home with his wife of 67 years. Mr. Cahill was 98.
“He was a good man,” said
Dressed un-legislatively in a T-shirt, shorts and boat shoes, Lantana Mayor David Stewart made an impromptu visit to the April 23 meeting of the South Palm Beach Town Council.
“I just wanted to thank your city,” Stewart told council members. “
At 94, Bob Welstein has no intention of slowing down. He still personally oversees the lecture program he started in South Palm Beach that now bears his name. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
Robert Welstein had a heart attack at 49.
By Tim O’Meilia
For the first time since he was hired in 2005, South Palm Beach Town Manager Rex Taylor underwent an evaluation by the Town Council at a Feb. 26 council workshop.
Taylor got good marks in sum from the individual council members,
Municipal elections will be held in a number of towns and cities in Palm Beach County on March 12. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Town or city clerks can provide answers to any election-related questions.
Briny Breezes
There is no electio
By Tim O’Meilia
South Palm Beach, Manalapan, Lantana and three other towns will cash tidy checks in the next few months for overpaying for sewage treatment provided by the city of Lake Worth for 16 years.
It’s a stunning reversal for Lake Worth, whi
By Tim O’Meilia
More than two years after collective bargaining began, the seaside towns of Manalapan and South Palm Beach signed three-year agreements with their unionized police departments in January.
While similar in length and many other d
By Mary Thurwachter
The Imperial House lost its beach stairs to Hurricane Sandy in October and has plans to replace them. But first, the South Palm Beach co-op needed — and received — a go-ahead from the Lantana Town Council.
A six-story, 58-un
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By Jane Smith
SOUTH PALM BEACH — John Holger Westerback, a founder of the Nordic Heritage Society of South Florida, died Jan. 19.
He was 86 and died from complications of Parkinson’s disease, his wife, Sonya, said.
Mr. Weste
By Tim O’Meilia
If the South Palm Beach police bargaining unit signs a three-year contract in the next month or so, the five members will each get a $1,500 lump-sum bonus.
The town’s other six full-time employees will get zip.
At its Dec. 18 meeting
By Tim O’Meilia
The beleaguered Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn, which has stirred South Palm Beach politics for five years, has been sold to a Delray Beach financier and investor in distressed properties.
The 58-unit, two-story motel on the ocean —
By Tim O’Meilia
After two years of negotiating, the town of South Palm Beach and its new five-member police union agreed on their first three-year contract, which gives officers a $1,500 bonus in the first year.
On the cusp of imposing a one