By Dan Moffett
For the fourth time in as many years, South Palm Beach is beginning a search to find a town manager.
But another search just ended before it started. The Town Council thinks it has found the police chief it’s been looking for. And it t
C. W. ‘Bill’ LeRoy, who moved to South Palm 2 ½ years ago, won election with the third-most votes. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Dan Moffett
Vice Mayor Robert Gottlieb went into the March election with a simple message for South Palm Beach voters.
By Dan Moffett
New Town Council members Bill Birch and Kathy Gross took the oath of office on March 20, completing a governmental overhaul in Briny Breezes that has been many months in the making.
Besides the addition of the two aldermen, Dale Sugerm
By Dan Moffett
Brad Biggs’ 11-year relationship with South Palm Beach ended abruptly Sept. 25 when the town attorney submitted his resignation, saying he had lost the support of some council members.
“Some council persons now do not believe tha
By Dan Moffett
Architect Steven Knight gave the South Palm Beach Town Council a conceptual drawing of what a new Town Hall might look like.
Now it’s up to the council and their constituents to decide whether to go forward and spend up to $6 mil
By Dan Moffett
After hearing concerns about rising legal bills, the Briny Breezes Town Council has decided to seek “comparative proposals” for services from outside attorneys.
The move comes in response to a growing number of complaints from
By Dan Moffett
The Briny Breezes Town Council is moving forward with plans to create an administrative position and to hire a part-time manager to fill it before the end of the summer.
Council President Sue Thaler said she hopes to assemble
More than 60 Briny Breezes residents, including speaker Joe Coyner, showed up at the April 27
council meeting to complain about a proposed ordinance that would create
a magistrate position to resolve building code disputes.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal St
Briny draws name
from bag to pick alderman
Town Clerk pro tem Bobby Jurovaty grasps a piece of paper he pulled from a bag to decide a tie vote to fill
a vacant seat on the Town Council. It had Chick Behringer’s name on it. Town Attorney John Skrandel
Lantana recount upholds 2-vote victory
Newly elected Commissioner Edward Shropshire is sworn in to office March 27 by Town Attorney R. Max Lohman Jr.
as Shropshire’s wife, Lorin, and Mayor Dave Stewart look on.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Mary T
By Mary Thurwachter
After voting not to sign on to a crossing agreement with Florida East Coast Railway and All Aboard Florida in February, the Lantana Town Council changed its mind a month later, affirming the agreement at its March 13 meeting.
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
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
Briny Breezes Mayor Mike Hill says the Town Council doesn’t need him anymore and his grandchildren in the Midwest do. So it’s time to go.
Hill announced his resignation Feb. 23, and with a wave and a smile, told council member
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
By Dan Moffett
Briny Breezes has had to look for a deputy clerk three times in the last three years, so Town Council members hope they’ve found a long-term solution with the hiring of Jackie Ermola in November.
A transplant from the Philadel
By Dan Moffett
After months of discussion, South Palm Beach Town Council members moved closer to giving themselves pay raises that would start next year.
The council, on a 3-1 vote at its Nov. 15 meeting, approved a proposal to have Town Attorn
By Mary Thurwachter
No stranger to “employee of the quarter” awards from the Lantana Police Department, Officer Edward Tavcar made another appearance at the Town Council’s Oct. 24 meeting. This time, he was recognized for his diligence in invest
