The Delray Beach Initiative raised more than $13,000 for Family Promise of South Palm Beach County, an organization that supports homeless families. ‘We want to thank all those who came out to support us in our goal to raise money to fight family hom
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Saint John Paul II Academy graduated 125 high-school students as their families and other guests of honor watched. Valedictorian Eric Heinlein will be attending Purdue University, and Salutatorian Amparo Pareja will be attending Columbia University.
Lori Mizell, executive director of the accreditation commission; Highland Beach Town Manager Beverly Brown,
Lt. Eric Lundberg and Police Chief Craig Hartmann; Eric Aronowitz, department accreditation
and training manager; and Indian River County Sher
The Kravis Center board of directors, trustees and committee members were honored at an event to celebrate the season’s highlights. Board Chairwoman Jane Mitchell summed it up: ‘In the area of fundraising and development, I am thrilled to report that
Executive Women of the Palm Beaches honored four of its own for making a difference in the community. Wendy Sartory-Link received the Private Sector Award, Laurie George received the Non-Profit Sector Award, Verdenia Baker received the Public Sector
The university’s music department, which is housed in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, received a $50,000 donation from the Georgina Dieter Dennis Foundation to continue funding the Georgina Dieter Dennis Vocal Scholarship. It mark
The latest plan for Mizner 200 has buildings connected on only the first two floors.
Rendering provided
By Mary Hladky
The developer of Mizner 200 has made substantial changes to its design since initially submitting plans, but the luxury condomi
Club members welcomed a new executive board during a ceremony in their historic landmark building. The seven-member slate of officers, five of whom were re-elected for a second term, was approved unanimously. The board consists of Michele Walter, pre
By Steve Plunkett
Relations between the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District and the city withered in June like an unwatered lawn in the hot Florida sun.
• District Chairman Robert Rollins listed a year’s worth of failed efforts to get th
By Steve Plunkett
The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District’s interim executive director will stay on the job an additional three months.
Arthur Koski, who is also the district’s longtime attorney, said in May he would step aside as interi
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach residents living on one of the town’s six publicly owned side streets off State Road A1A are welcome to attend a public information forum on the upcoming water main replacement project that will impact their neighbor
Muhammad Ali jokingly held up a fist while holding the little Joe Lewis in 1991. Photo by Thom Smith
By Thom Smith
We all have our moments. Those fleeting ticks of time that stay with us to the grave, through good days and bad, despite the noisy kid
INSET BELOW: Prokos and Ursini (left); Sember and Massimino (right)
By Sallie James
When it comes to saving lives, some Boca Raton Fire Rescue members stand out. City Council members recently recognized four of the department’s finest, lauding
By Steve Plunkett
Mayor Susan Haynie used her State of the City 2016 speech to cement her place as Boca Raton’s biggest booster.
Gaining her highest marks are the thriving business community and the explosive growth of Florida Atlantic Univers
By Sallie James
It’s finally settled. Boca Raton voters will get the chance to decide two issues on the Aug. 30 primary election ballot: Whether unexpected City Council vacancies should be filled by special election and whether council members sho
By Dan Moffett
Recent advances in technology could enable Ocean Ridge to move forward with a plan to install license plate recognition cameras along State Road A1A without the blessing of the Florida Department of Transportation.
Ocean Ridge Po
BOCA RATON — Diane Gates Benedetto took her place in heaven on Feb. 26, less than two months shy of her 100th birthday. Diane was born in West Palm Beach on April 20, 1916, to Harley D. Gates and Harriette P. Gates, both early pioneers in Boca Ra
The Plate: BLT Nanterre
The Place: Bond & Smolders, 1622 S. Federal Highway (at Woolbright Road), Boynton Beach; 425-3551.
The Price: $6.50
The Skinny: A sandwich is a sandwich — at least until you have one from Bond & Smolders.
The BLT Nanterre offe
By Steve Plunkett
Boca Raton will add left-turn lanes on eastbound Palmetto Park Road at Mizner Boulevard and Northeast/Southeast Fifth Avenue and buy a train detection system so it can better time traffic signals at the Palmetto Park crossing.
By Steve Pike
There is no better way to see where we are going than to know where we’ve been. In her new book, All Aboard! A History of Florida’s Railroads, author Stephanie Murphy-Lupo superbly details not only the history of Florida’s railroads, bu
