When Highland Beach’s town manager, Dale Sugerman, was suspended last month, town att
south palm beach (438)
When Highland Beach’s town manager, Dale Sugerman, was suspended last month, town att
Hope for a proposed 1.3-mile breakwater project designed to protect the shrinking South Palm Beach and Lantana shoreline is eroding faster than the beach.
When Palm Beach County commissioners voted 5-2 on March 22 to scuttle a $50 mill
Election Results:
Top two win commission seats:
Joseph M. Flagello - 315 votes, 45.92%
Bonnie Fischer - 238 votes, 34.69%
Brian Merbler - 133 votes, 19.39%
Question 1:
(Maximum 60 foot building height east of A1A)
Yes - 309 votes, 79.03%
No - 82 vot
South Palm Beach Election: Candidates
By Tim O’Meilia
The South Palm Beach Town Council unanimously rejected a third attempt by owners of the Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn to change the town’s land use plan to allow a 10-story, 99-unit motel-condominium
South Palm Beach Mayor Don Clayman conducts the Feb. 5 performance of the Symphonic Band of the Palm Beaches at the Duncan Theatre at Palm Beach State College in Lake Worth. Clayman won the chance to conduct the band in a raffle offered as part of t
By Tim O’Meilia
Start saving your change for extra gas money. Not because gas prices may reach $4 a gallon this summer, but because the round trip from South Palm Beach, Hypoluxo Island or Manalapan to the mainland will be six to 10 miles longer by Th
Q: What’s the best way to fill a town advisory board?
A: Form another board.
That’s what the South Palm Beach Town Council did Jan. 25. They had to. The town charter says so.
It’s right there in Art. II, Sec. 2-9: “To assist the Town M
It’s been said that all politics is local. For folks seeking to resolve local issues, the second Tuesday in March — Election Day — is the traditional date for significant civic action.
Public offices from mayor to town councils will be up
By Tim O’Meilia
SOUTH PALM BEACH — Leon “Lee” Sol Zimmerman, a former vice mayor and councilman and one of the founders of the town’s popular music and lecture series, died Jan. 23. He was 90.
When Lee and Bernice Zimmerman settled permanently in South
By C.B. Hanif
The Chabad of South Palm Beach’s new center in Manalapan’s Plaza Del Mar is just plain welcoming.
“We really did try to create that feel,” said Rabbi Leibel Stolik. “We wanted it to be an inviting, warm, welcoming atmosphere, so that peo
By Ron Hayes
SOUTH PALM BEACH — When Ernest Muro moved to South Palm Beach in 1990, he was a retired schoolteacher and media specialist from Baldwin, N.Y.
But he never retired from community service.
In 1991, Mr. Muro was elected president of his condo
By Tim O’Meilia
Hoping to put their best foot forward, South Palm Beach council members promoted retired podiatrist Don Clayman to mayor, replacing Martin Millar, who resigned abruptly Dec. 9.
And, in a surprising twist of events, the council filled C
Lantana Town Council members have said it before and they’ll say it again: Don’t ask to drive construction equipment over our $1.5 million seawall.
Palm Beach sought permission to send a bulldozer, a front-end loader and two dump truc
The South Palm Beach Planning Board turned thumbs down Dec. 9 on a third proposal by the Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn that would allow a larger hotel on the two-story site.
By a 3-2 vote, the board recommended the Town Council deny th
Surfers and sunbathers enjoy the portion of Lantana beach that is already protected by a seawall. Plans are under way to protect the remaining gap between the public beach and the Imperial House seawall, visible in the top center in black. Photo by
By Tim O’Meilia
Come March, South Palm Beach residents won’t have Martin Millar to kick around anymore.
The embattled mayor said he is bowing out of town politics when his term ends in the spring.
“I’m finished. I’m done. Politics is not my forte,” M
There’s no question what voters in the coastal towns thought about the new ethics ordinance that includes oversight by Palm Beach County’s inspector general. They overwhelmingly voted “Yes.”
But opinions among the town leaders run
Millar said in January he filed complaints against Planning Board members Michael Nevard,
