Longtime Ocean Ridge resident Don MaGruder takes the oath of office as commissioner
following the Ocean Ridge municipal election. MaGruder and incumbent
Vice Mayor James Bonfiglio were the top two vote-getters.
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By Steve Plunkett
The felony trial of former Ocean Ridge Vice Mayor Richard Lucibella will take place no sooner than midsummer.
Assistant State Attorney Danielle Grundt and Lucibella’s defense attorney, Marc Shiner, both told Circuit Judge Char
By Jane Smith
The city and the Atlantic Crossing developer have spent the past month trading settlement offers. Before the April 4 Delray Beach City Commission meeting, commissioners will meet in a closed-door session with their attorneys and
One of the options for the new location of the Christmas tree is on the lawn east of the pavilion grounds.
Rendering provided
By Jane Smith
The 100-foot Christmas tree that dominated the Delray Beach holiday season won’t be used again. The tree’s
By Jane Smith
Beach lovers will soon have renovated restrooms to use at Boynton Beach’s Oceanfront Park in Ocean Ridge, along with freshly baked pastries at the snack bar.
The restroom renovations will be finished by the end of May, said J
By Dan Moffett
Manalapan completed a sweeping overhaul of its Town Commission on March 28 with the swearing in of three new officials and the reassignment of two others.
None of the changes required input from voters in the March election, b
Greg Dunham (second from left) chats with Gulf Stream Mayor Scott Morgan, resident Patsy Randolph
and Commissioner Joan Orthwein after being selected as town manager.
He previously held that job in Manalapan and Ocean Ridge.
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By Mary Thurwachter
You’ll want to think twice about visiting friends in Manalapan or going to Lantana’s beach on April 6 and 7.
“Be prepared for a traffic nightmare,” said Lantana Police Chief Sean Scheller.
That’s because Chinese Preside
By Dan Moffett
South Palm Beach has 15 of the 16 easements it needs to get its beach stabilization project moving.
But that’s not enough. It will take all 16, signed and returned, Town Manager Bob Vitas says.
“Nothing can happen until everyo
Ted Johnson stands amid the vehicles on display at his Milestone Motorcars dealership in Boynton Beach.
The Ocean Ridge resident says he spends 12 hours a day at the business, but it’s truly a labor of love.
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Thomas Jo
By Jane Smith
A political newcomer and a seasoned public servant will join the Delray Beach City Commission after they were handily elected March 14.
The most contentious race was between retiree Jim Chard and his main contender, politic
The Balsan estate became Casa Alva.
The Pierce homestead. The man on the right is Hannibal Pierce. The other men are unidentified.
Photos provided by Historical Society of Palm Beach County
Michelle Donahue with the Brown Wrapper newsletter.
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Delray Beach and Boynton Beach became the center of gladiolus growing in 1939
after a deep freeze wiped out the crop in Fort Myers.
Starting in 1947, Delray Beach began having parades during the gladiola festivals.
Lavish floats were decorated with f
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 Jane Smith
Riverwalk owner Shaul Rikman recently purchased 5.8 acres of mangroves just south of his proposed development and offered them to the city of Boynton Beach in late March.
“It is in our best interest to maintain the mangroves to th
By Jane Smith
The restaurant once known as the Little House will reopen this summer as Fork Play.
A late decision by the owners, former Ocean Ridge Vice Mayor Richard Lucibella and his partner, to enclose the eatery’s outside porch led to a de
By Jane Smith
City commissioners are so thrilled with the performance of their interim city manager, they decided to raise his salary equal to the one paid to the city manager who resigned at the end of December.
Vice Mayor Jordana Jarjura,
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
DELRAY BEACH — Marcus W. Smith, 82, of Delray Beach and Prouts Neck, Maine, died peacefully on Feb. 27. He is survived by his devoted wife of 31 years, Alexandra White Smith; his five children and their spouses: Marcus W. Smith Jr. of New Canaan,
DELRAY BEACH — Virginia Artrip Snyder, a longtime private investigator renowned for her tireless efforts to help oppressed people and improve her community, died March 20 at her home in Delray Beach following a stroke. She was 96. Mrs. Snyder
