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OCEAN RIDGE — At Florida Atlantic University, where Heather Turner Frazer taught for 35 years, she was known as the history department’s moral compass — the woman who always knew the right thing to do and how to do it. Even 1
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Barry Adkin, owner of Howard’s Market in Boca Raton, was hoping to move to
Manalapan’s Plaza del Mar before the plaza began negotiating with Publix.
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Related story: Code change accommodates Publix sign request
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By Sallie James
A controversial plan to build an upscale restaurant on a 2.3-acre parcel near the Intracoastal Waterway and East Palmetto Park Road is moving forward.
Deputy Boca Raton City Manager George Brown announced plans for the Wildflowe
The good people of Boca Raton are in position to build the first homeless kibbutz in the USA. The United States’ shelter system for homeless people is a failed system. It makes nothing better, it only makes the situation worse.
It is time to
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach residents soaked by high water bills as a result of large leaks could soon be getting some relief.
During discussion of a proposed ordinance that would include changes to the town’s water-rate structure — includi
By Dan Moffett
Prospects dimmed for a barrier island fire district as officials from six coastal communities dug deeper into a consultant’s feasibility study last month.
The preliminary report from Robert Finn, a manager with Texas-based Matrix
By Sallie James
Should the city hold a special election to fill a vacant City Council seat or should council members continue appointing someone to the opening? It’s a question at least one elected official continues to ponder.
City Council mem
Boca Raton Fire Rescue Capt. Jason Owens checks on the shark bite victim
before she was taken to the hospital.
Photo provided
By Sallie James
It was an “only in Florida” story if there ever was one: A young woman went for a swim in the ocean and
Related story: Atlantic Avenue business sales drive Delray’s value increase
By Mary Hladky
As the housing market collapse fades into memory, the taxable value of Palm Beach County properties has risen to within striking distance of the histor
Related story: Higher cost estimates could scuttle fire district plan
By Rich Pollack
Another deadline for when Highland Beach has to let Delray Beach know if it plans to continue contracting with the city for fire and rescue services has come
By Steve Plunkett
Talk of the city annexing five subdivisions north of Clint Moore Road has the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District crying foul.
District commissioners were already chafed by the 2013 annexation of the Royal Palm polo gro
The Early Literacy Backpack program is giving Suzanne Endruschat’s daughter, Maggie, 4,
a head start on developing her reading skills.
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By April W. Klimley
Maggie Endruschat just turned 4, but she’s already getting ready to read — a
By Steve Plunkett
Night owls behind the wheel can expect to encounter up to 30-minute delays on Interstate 95 on select Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Work on the Spanish River Boulevard interchange this month will include erecting bridge beams across th
By Steve Plunkett
The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District is sending a counterproposal filled with additions and deletions to the City Council, which wants “sole discretion” to make changes at parks.
The district and the council now must
By Steve Plunkett
Arthur Koski, longtime attorney for the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District, will relinquish his additional role as interim executive director of the agency Oct. 1.
Koski, who has been under attack from city officials s
By Sallie James
The Boca Raton City Council after much disagreement last month again delayed approving an ordinance that would limit building heights in areas zoned local business and multifamily residential.
The proposed ordinance would limit
The public is invited to attend an architectural roundtable from 6:30-8:30 p.m. June 8 at Boca Raton City Hall, 201 W. Palmetto Park Road.
The focus of the roundtable is to discuss the creative reinterpretation of the Mizner tradition as it r
Stratford Arms’ use of multiple kinds of palm trees makes for a stunning entrance feature.
BELOW: The Atrium uses colorful plants to make the assisted-living facility more inviting to its clients.
Photos provided
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
On May
Eddie James and Tommy Woodard, known as The Skit Guys, will perform June 10 in Delray Beach.
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By Janis Fontaine
The Skit Guys — Tommy Woodard of Edmond, Okla., and Eddie James of Sachse, Texas — have been using comedy and drama to
Boca teen’s prototype harnesses ocean energy
and wins her a ticket to the White House
Hannah Herbst, at an FAU lab, shows her floatable prototype designed to provide
a power source by using untapped energy from ocean currents. She won the Discovery
