By Mary Thurwachter
Budget workshops seldom draw a crowd in Lantana, where the tax rate has remained mostly the same for the past 21 years. That changed this year after word of a proposed tax hike spread.
Despite a 15.8% increase in the town’s tax ba
By Rich Pollack
More than a year after a sometimes contentious split in which Highland Beach told Delray Beach it no longer wants the city’s fire rescue services, the two municipalities are in talks to determine if — and how — they can work together
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach now has a new incoming fire chief, one with extensive experience in south Palm Beach County, who was chosen last month to lead the town’s effort to get its new fire department up and running.
Glenn Joseph, a veteran of
By Rich Pollack
The Florida Department of Transportation will offer a preview this month of a major road-improvement project on State Road A1A through Highland Beach and part of Delray Beach that will include lane closures and other disruptions.
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OCEAN RIDGE — Liliane Sivitilli, formerly of Toronto and Quebec province in Canada, died July 7. She was 83.
Mrs. Sivitilli was born in Chicoutimi, Quebec, on Nov. 11, 1938. In 1961, she moved to Toronto, where she met her husband, Orlando Sivitilli
By Steve Plunkett
Peace and quiet is no more along the shores of the Intracoastal Waterway just south of the Camino Real bridge.
Palm Beach County, after a recent review of operations there, ordered the bridge’s tender to activate its horn each time
DELRAY BEACH — Patricia Johnston O’Hearne of Delray Beach died surrounded by family June 19 at the age of 84.
Patricia Johnston was born in Brooklyn on April 9, 1938, to Patricia and Robert Emmett Johnston. The oldest of three daughters, she was 10 a
Work will last until at least Aug. 12 to repave Spanish River Boulevard from its western end to State Road A1A.
“Hopefully the weather is good to us and job will be completed on schedule,” All County Paving project manager Brad Jones said in an email.
SOUTH PALM BEACH — Patricia Catherine Schulmayr died June 19 after a brief illness. She was 86.
Born on Feb. 20, 1936, to John and Catherine McCarthy, Mrs. Schulmayr was blessed with a loving family and married to the love of her life, Joseph Schulma
Boca Raton City Council members will soon vote on a proposed 12-story, extended-stay hotel at Royal Palm Place. It would be located on property that previously housed the Black Rose Irish Pub and 4th Generation Organic Market and Cafe. Rendering prov
DELRAY BEACH — On July 2, Delray Beach lost a legend.
Sande Strong, owner of Sande’s Restaurant — “where the locals go” — always had a smile, a kind word and a quick wit for those who came to Sande’s for a meal. She was 79.
Jim and Sande worked side
By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton’s tax rate likely will remain unchanged for the coming fiscal year — though that translates into a 15% tax increase.
The 2022-23 tax rate, presented to the City Council on July 26 by City Manager Leif Ahnell, is the same as t
The Boca Raton resort is repainting its iconic 27-story Tower hotel next to the Intracoastal Waterway. ‘The pink is staying, but we are lightening up the shade of pink to be more fresh and updated than our previous shade,’ resort publicist Christine
DELRAY BEACH — Patricia “Pat” Lyng Canning died at home on July 19. She was 93.
Pat Lyng was born Aug. 13, 1928, in Detroit to Robert Emmet Lyng and Emelia Feldmen Lyng. She was the second of five girls and often referred to herself as “the boy,” pr
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach commissioners in early August gave tentative approval to a revised condominium recertification ordinance that incorporates changes passed by the Florida Legislature.
While much of Highland Beach’s original ordinance rem
By Rich Pollack
DELRAY BEACH — During their 75 years together, Bill and Nancy Lorne were almost never apart.
Knowing how much their parents loved each other and how inseparable they were, family members predicted that there would be little time betw
Boca Raton police detectives are continuing to investigate an armed robbery that occurred on the barrier island early Sunday morning, July 24.
The two victims arrived home on Banyan Road at 4:28 a.m. after spending the evening at the Seminole Hard Ro
By Steve Plunkett
Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District commissioners set a tentative property tax rate that is 15% higher than the rollback rate, but assured taxpayers they will trim the rate in September to an 11.8% increase.
The current rate i
The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District is a finalist in a contest that could yield $75,000 toward the development of Ocean Strand Park.
Ocean Strand is one of 10 contenders that survived the cut in the National Recreation and Park Association’
By Steve Plunkett
Often-litigious Gulf Stream resident Martin O’Boyle has another legal feather in his cap: The 4th District Court of Appeal affirmed a lower-court decision that acquitted him of misdemeanor resisting a police officer.
A three-judge pa
