Ocean Ridge’s Timothy Annis collects bottle caps instead of shells on the beach. He stores them in onion bags and recycles them to raise money to buy wheelchairs for veterans and others who need them.
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By Mary Thurwachter
Things are cooking at Mario’s Ocean Avenue, the Italian eatery that opened earlier this year in a location previously occupied by another restaurant, 225.
In August, Mario’s owner Henry Olmino got the Lantana Town Counc
By Jane Smith
After more than a decade of work, Federal Highway in Delray Beach is back to its roots as a thoroughfare with two lanes in each direction.
In the mid-1970s the road was widened to three lanes before the state Department of
As the moon was at its closest point to the Earth in late September, its strong gravitational pull
drew higher than normal tidal waters over seawalls and bulkheads along the coast. The annual
autumn event, called a ‘king tide,’ followed a rare total
Sargassum seaweed blankets the Ocean Ridge beach in July.
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By Cheryl Blackerby
Sargassum, the brown free-floating algae that turns up on Palm Beach County’s beaches every summer, is essential for marine life. The thi
By Jane Smith
One of the owners of the historic Sundy House in Delray Beach still wants to do a project at Lake Worth Beach, but under different terms.
Hudson Holdings, which also has an ownership stake in the historic Gulfstream Hotel in downt
By Jane Smith
The Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency board recently sweetened the deals for two entities to buy its historic homes and turn them into restaurants.
For the Little House, at 480 E. Ocean Ave., the CRA board agreed to bu
Brooklyn, N.Y., artist Isabelle Garbani installs her crocheted plastic bags artwork titled “Invasive Species”
near the Children’s Schoolhouse Museum in Boynton Beach. Eleven kinetic artworks, by nine artists,
have been installed along East Ocean Aven
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By Dan Moffett
Six coastal municipalities are joining forces to explore forming a barrier island fire district that could reduce rising costs, improve response tim
By Dan Moffett
A self-described “Florida girl” who grew up in Boynton Beach and has lived in Palm Beach County for 40 years, Christina Adams moved to Briny Breezes last year with her husband, Gene, and their two teenage sons.
“We love the oc
By Jane Smith
The Boynton Beach City Commission is trying to take control of its Community Redevelopment Agency board by ousting the two appointed members, James “Buck” Buchanan and former Mayor Woodrow Hay.
Vice Mayor Joe Casello brought up th
With the silhouette of the existing Prime Catch in the foreground, the developer’s plans call for 328 apartments
in a U-shaped configuration to make the most of the site’s waterway frontage.
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By Jane Smith
The Riverwalk Plaza ow
Evelyn and Robert Kraft.
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By Emily J. Minor
BRINY BREEZES — She slipped away on a Wednesday. He collapsed that next Sunday. And, in the end, which is what it turned out to be, no one was all that surprised that Robert
BOCA RATON — Larry Phillips, who became a driving philanthropic force in the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County community immediately upon moving to Boca Raton 22 years ago, died Sept. 11.
Retired from the Phillips-Van Heusen apparel
Alex Warner of Delray Beach is a director of Boatsetter, which makes privately owned boats
available for rent. He’s standing on the bridge of the 65-foot Floating Price, one of the largest boats
listed on Boatsetter.com, at Marina Delray.
Willie Howa
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This 15,000-square-foot spec house in Manalapan was sold for $33 million
by 800 South Ocean LLC, owned by developer Patrick Carney.
The furnished ocean-to-lake home has eight bedrooms, 11 baths and a tennis court.
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By Christine Davis
By Rich Pollack
Sparked in part by recent tragic events on the waterways in and around Florida, state Sen. Maria Sachs last month gathered representatives of the boating community and marine industries — along with law enforcement officials — to e
By Rich Pollack
Drive along State Road A1A and you’ll see the subtle signs of a steadily recovering economy.
In Highland Beach, a multimillion-dollar luxury condominium project is coming out of the ground on what had been one of the last rem
By Rich Pollack
After weeks of meticulously scrutinizing a proposed budget line by line, Highland Beach Town Commissioners agreed in September to cuts that result in a reduced operating tax rate of $3.50 per $1,000 of assessed value.
Commission
