Lantana Police Officer Brian Gibson was recognized as the department’s 2014 Employee of the Year during the March 9 Town Council meeting. Police Chief Sean Scheller said Gibson, who had been honored as Employee of the Second Quarter previously, h
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By Mary Thurwachter
It may appear bleak now, but soon the green space at the Lantana Beach facing A1A and east of the drainage ditch swale will be undergoing a spruce-up courtesy of an anonymous resident.
At the March 23 meeting, the Lantana
By Dan Moffett
Just about everyone in South Palm Beach was caught off guard last August when Paragon Acquisition Group got the town’s blessing for a plan to develop the Oceanfront Inn site.
The revised design sailed through the approval proce
By Dan Moffett
Though their town is built-out, South Palm Beach council members say they want more control over important decisions on development projects.
So they’re moving forward with changes that will shift power from the architecture and
By Dan Moffett
South Palm Beach’s search for a new town manager drew more than 70 applicants from municipalities across the country — and that included a chauffeur and a bartender.
“I wanted this to be the toughest decision you have to make,
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
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
By Willie Howard
Lantana officials want to restrict marijuana dispensaries to industrial sections of the 3-square-mile town if Florida voters on Nov. 4 approve the constitutional amendment that would allow marijuana use for medical purposes.
On
By Mary Thurwachter
The lease isn’t up for three more years, but Dune Deck Café owner John Caruso was able to persuade the Lantana Town Council to extend the popular beach restaurant’s contract until 2022.
“It’s important for us to have tha
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
By Mary Thurwachter
Developers were able to persuade a majority of Lantana Town Council members that rezoning the Cenacle property to make way for a 319-unit apartment complex was a good idea. On the other hand, a request for four variances to the
CORRECTION: This story incorrectly describes the hiring of three employees by Briny Breezes. The town received six applications for deputy town clerk, two for bookkeeper and one for meter reader. Town Attorney John Skrandel advised the Town Council
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
The Lantana beach parking lot has been raised and new metered kiosks have been installed.
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By Mary Thurwachter
A drainage and paving improvement project in Lantana for the beach parking lot that began in February is ne
By Dan Moffett
Briny Breezes is looking at a budget for the new fiscal year that is largely a mirror image of last year’s numbers.
During July budget workshops, Town Council members gave preliminary approval to keeping the current tax rate of $
By Mary Thurwachter
A zoning change for 10 acres of prime waterfront property that has been home to the Cenacle Spiritual Life Center in Lantana for nearly 60 years won the approval of the Lantana Town Council on June 9.
The change, from C1 co
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 Mary Thurwachter
Another traffic study is due for South Lake Drive, south of Ocean Avenue and around the corner from the Old Key Lime House.
The Lantana Town Council authorized the count at its Jan. 27 meeting in response to complaints fro
By Dan Moffett
In 1996, Mike Hill lost a hotly contested election for the Highland Beach vice-mayor seat by a mere 12 votes out of nearly 1,200 cast.
On Jan. 23, becoming the new mayor of Briny Breezes was a lot easier.