By Mary Thurwachter
Beachgoers expect to find water at Lantana’s beach — for swimming and wading and splashing along the shoreline. Historically, they could also expect to wade through water in the parking lot, too, after a rainfall of any signif
By Mary Thurwachter
Beachgoers expect to find water at Lantana’s beach — for swimming and wading and splashing along the shoreline. Historically, they could also expect to wade through water in the parking lot, too, after a rainfall of any signif
By Dan Moffett
Five years and countless hours of deliberation in the making, the Briny Breezes’ comprehensive land use plan officially became the blueprint for the community’s future when it won the unanimous approval of the Town
By Dan Moffett
With year-end holiday celebrations coming up, South Palm Beach residents won’t have to worry about government officials dipping into the town’s coffers and making merry to excess.
That’s because the Town Council has adopted a “
By Tim O’Meilia
The youngest person to be named mayor of Briny Breezes since Hugh David 50 years ago was unanimously appointed Oct. 24 by the Town Council. Gerry Devine, 38, a corporate attorney for Cisco Systems with offices in Fort Lauderdale,
By Tim O’Meilia
South Palm Beach’s nine non-police-union workers will get a 2 percent pay increase and a $1,500 bonus to help them keep pace with their collective bargaining brethren, the Town Council decided by a 4-1 vote Aug. 22.
The money
By Mary Thurwachter
A plan to convert two town-owned lots into a waterfront park and parking lot got the green light from the Lantana Town Council in June.
But several neighbors to the side-by-side lots, at 106 and 122 N. Lake Drive on the
By Tim O’Meilia
Police, fire and emergency services will cost more. But taxable property in Briny Breezes is worth less. And the town’s tax rate is already maxed out. So the Briny Breezes Town Council will ask the corporation that owns the town
The Briny Breezes Town Council will seek bids this month to provide police protection for the 488-mobile home town for the next three years or beyond.
For the past three years, the town has paid neighboring Ocean Ridge $185,000 annually for p
By Mary Thurwachter
Property owners turned out en masse at the April 8 Town Council meeting to oppose a proposed sober house at 118 N. Oak Ave., around the corner from the Ocean Avenue shopping district.
Phyllis Small, who owns property on the
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. “
By Mary Thurwachter
The four remaining members of the Lantana Town Council will go it alone until the March 12 election, opting not to appoint anyone to the Group 2 seat vacated last month by Cindy Austino.
Austino, who is moving to Florida’s Panhand
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
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