Six Boca Raton residents will receive OPAL (Outstanding People and Leaders) Awards from the Rotary Club of Boca Raton at a ceremony in January. The club sponsored a reception in anticipation of the event to announce the names of recipients and the a
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Soroptimist International of Boca Raton / Deerfield Beach welcomed more than 300 guests to its awards ceremony. Merrilee Middleton, 93, Boca Raton Center for Group Counseling founder, received a lifetime achievement award.
TOP: Cynthia Cummings with
Impact 100 members Tina Smith, Lisa Morgan and Peg Greenspon welcome members and guests to a wine and cheese membership event with featured speaker Pam Figoras of The Parent Child Center. The center was Impact 100’s first grant recipient in 2012. F
The Place of Hope at the Haven Campus benefited from a special event that introduced more than two dozen women to the nonprofit organization’s mission and newly acquired facility. Arlene Hyman organized the stylish affair, and a portion of proceeds f
The Hanley Center Foundation’s young professionals organization, Mangrove Group, closed out the summer season and started a new one with a trditional clambake. The event was attended by more than 50 supporters, both new and old, and helped raise $3
Dec. 2: Twenty celebrity bakers will compete for the grand prize trophy during a night
filled with unlimited desserts and pastries — all to benefit Dezzy’s Second Chance Animal Rescue Inc.
Time is 6-9 pm. Tickets are $30/advance and $35/door.
Call
Karen Rembert’s teaching style has made her one of the region’s top coaches and instructors. She is tennis director at Eau Palm Beach Resort and Spa.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Steve Pike
Karen Rembert isn’t your ordinary tennis instructo
The seventh annual reception raising awareness and money for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation offered auction prizes, including an autographed football by former Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula. ‘We raised over $3,000 this year with a very passio
Circuit Judge Lucy Chernow Brown was awarded the Jurist of the Year Award by the Palm Beach County Justice Association at a sold-out dinner reception. The award is given annually to a Palm Beach Circuit Court judge who personifies excellence in prese
While Lantana prepares for the bridge opening party on Nov. 16, it will not be having a GreenFest this year.
“When we started GreenFest, we anticipated that it would grow in popularity and attendance,” said David B. Thatcher, Lant
Mounts Botanical Garden, West Palm Beach, wants your used and vintage garden tools and landscape items to sell at its Vintage Garden Thrift Shop opening this fall.
Think rakes, shovels, gardening books, statues and more.
To schedule a donation pickup,
Manalapan was especially hard-hit when days of pounding from Hurricane Sandy undermined sea walls at more than 20 homes.
Many complained that poorly maintained sea walls at one property caused the sea wall of their neighbors to fail.
2012 photos by J
Related story: Boca's canine beach time is goal of pilot program
By Dan Moffett
Dog advocates in Delray Beach are planning to turn loose roving packs of petitioners soon in a campaign to persuade the city to open part of its beach
Related story: Delray advocates ready to fetch allies for dog beach
By Steve Plunkett
Boca Raton already has Mizner Bark, its wildly popular park for dogs. Now it will cordon off part of the beach at Palmetto Park Road and State R
Delray Beach native Daisy Sundy Earls — granddaughter of Delray Beach’s first mayor, John Shaw Sundy, and daughter of Benjamin Franklin Sundy, one of Palm Beach County’s earliest commissioners — was in town recently for a short visit. While at the ho
Related story — Highland Beach: Town delays call on 911 changes
By Tim Pallesen
Delray Beach has asked Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue for a price quote to take over fire-rescue operations in the city.
The concept is
By Rich Pollack
It has been on Highland Beach’s wish list since 2005, and now it seems like the ball is finally rolling on plans to renovate a disjointed Town Hall and Police Department, with the goal of improving efficiency and making it easier
By Rich Pollack
Flo Furino and her husband, Frank, needed to get away from the noise coming from their balcony, as workers chipped away at the concrete.
Their aging building at the Coronado Ocean Club in Highland Beach — like many other build
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach town officials have pushed the hold button on plans to change the way 911 calls are handled — at least until Delray Beach decides whether or not to have Palm Beach County take over that city’s fire and rescue servic
Photo taken before the runoff problems, shows a healthy bed of Johnson’s seagrass. Photo courtesy DERM
By Jane Smith
At the Snook Islands Natural Area — the one touted as an example of what can go right when various agencies and volunteers work togeth
