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
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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
John Holger Westerback
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
South Palm Beach Town Council members Robert Gottlieb and Bonnie Fischer supported the literacy luncheon.
Millar
By Tim O’Meilia
Hours after he spoke at a South Palm Beach Town Council meeting on Sept. 19, former Mayor Martin Millar was arrested after reportedly using a flashlight to attack a man in a Palm Beach Gardens club.
After his arrest, Mill
By Tim O’Meilia
Hours after he spoke at a South Palm Beach town council meeting, former mayor Martin Millar was arrested for allegedly attacking a man with a flashlight in a Palm Beach Gardens club.
Millar, 66, was released on his own recognizance Fr
By Tim O’Meilia
Former South Palm Beach Mayor Martin Millar’s claim that he was threatened by Police Chief Roger Crane was dismissed as unfounded by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.
Millar claimed that Crane approached him aggressively during
By Tim O’Meilia
The South Palm Beach Town Council might dip $118,000 into their reserve money to keep from raising the tax rate on condominium owners next year.
The council spent much of a budget workshop session Aug. 7 trying to slice at least $20
Joseph Rosso
By Ron Hayes
SOUTH PALM BEACH — Thirty-five years ago, Joseph Rosso started a small paving and drainage company in Lake Worth.
At the time of his death on Aug. 1, Rosso Paving & Draining Inc. was doing about $6 million in business each
Gladys Forrestal
By Ron Hayes
SOUTH PALM BEACH — Walking with her husband in Costco or Publix, strolling the streets, eating in restaurants, Gladys Forrestal was often approached by women smiling warmly.
“Gladys,” they asked, “is that you?”
They
By Tim O’Meilia
Four things learned from last month’s visit of President Obama and Vice President Biden:
1. Waiting onlookers and reporters like pizza, ice cream and cinnamon-nut French toast.
2. Roped-off parking lots mean no parking me
By Tim O’Meilia
Former South Palm Beach Mayor Martin Millar filed a complaint last month with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, claiming that South Palm Beach Police Chief Roger Crane threatened him in the Plaza del Mar parking lot.
A Sherif
By Tim O’Meilia
The South Palm Beach Town Council set a tentative tax rate of $4.39 per $1,000 of taxable property value for next year, but promised to try to trim that figure during budget workshops and hearings this month and in September.
Th
By Tim O’Meilia
It’s the old “good news/bad news” cliché.
The good news is that the elusive environmental impact study for the perhaps illusory plan to save South Palm Beach’s eroding beach and maintain Lantana’s seawall is being revived.
T
By Tim O’Meilia
Until now, beach protection was an exercise in putting a jigsaw puzzle together. Everyone had a piece but maybe that piece didn’t fit with their neighbor’s.
South Palm Beach condo owners fretted over how to get groins and breakwaters
By Tim O’Meilia
Rex Taylor’s seventh anniversary as South Palm Beach town manager is this month and to mark the occasion his employers will review his performance for the first time.
But not before he does it first. Then next year, the council will
By Tim O’Meilia
A year ago, Manalapan Mayor Basil Diamond claimed South Palm Beach could save a half million dollars a year — give or take $100,000 — by letting Manalapan provide police and dispatch service.
South Palm Beach Mayor Donald Clayman di
