By Thom Smith
Call it the tale of two bridges. But the climax, thrilling or depressing, won’t be written for months … or even years.
Delray’s Atlantic Avenue Bridge will be closed until Nov. 23 for a face lift. Crews will work from 10 p.m. to 6
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By Angie Francalancia
Mayors find consolidation consultants price steep
Less than a month after Boynton Beach city commissioners had put to rest the idea of closing Fire Station No. 1, which serves island residents, the topic popped up again — th
Beach weddings are such popular commodities that Boynton Beach is giving one away as a contest prize. And seaside ceremonies come highly touted by the Palm Beach County Convention and Visitor’s Bureau — which counts Delray Beach
Palm Beach County hazmat team members prepare to enter the Ocean Ridge home of Frank Biden on Oct. 1 after a suspicious substance was delivered to his home on Ridge Boulevard. The hazmat team was carrying isolation buckets and a dog-collaring de
Gulf Stream’s next and perhaps final subdivision was sidetracked another month in October and Gulf Stream’s recently annexed residents got their first commission seat.
Come January, Sherwood Park residents will no longer have the choice of rear/side yard garbage pickup. While they’re losing a service option, they’re gaining an advantage.
“They’ll have their rates lowered,” said City Manager
With its year-old parking study in hand, Delray Beach is reaching out for public discussion on how to operate and pay for parking in the city.
The commission agreed public input was in order after parking management specialis
A plan to refurbish Point Manalapan’s gatehouse has stalled, frustrating landscape committee members and the man who volunteered to pay for at least part of the project.
Committee chairwoman Daryl Cheifetz told town commissioners
The real estate market for private homes might be in trouble elsewhere, but not in Manalapan. In September, an ocean-to-Intracoastal Waterway Mediterranean-style home and guesthouse at 820 S. Ocean Blvd. sold for a record-breaki
A new slate of police officers and a dispatcher are moving into position at the Ocean Ridge Police Department, following the latest retirement of department mainstay Officer Doc Darville.
By Mary Kate Leming
and Margie Plunkett
Ocean Ridge commissioners gave their town manager a harsh evaluation in October, but Ken Schenck said he was confident he could correct the review categories in question. The annual evaluation, in which
By Tim O’Meilia
Manatees — those lovable, lumbering, cow-faced, half-ton marine mammals that putter along in Palm Beach County’s Intracoastal Waterway — will get extra protection from boaters this winter from six new boating speed zones. Th
The Town Council moved swiftly Oct. 25 to appoint
A rainy late afternoon in mid-October on East Ocean Avenue in Lantana. The orange valet parking cones are out in front of Bar Italia, but it’s early and little need for them yet.
Down the street cars are beginning to pull into t
It’s
GULF STEAM — Wilma Ann and George Elmore moved to Delray Beach in the early 1950s and started a small paving business they named Hardrives. George paved driveways for $125 each. Wilma did the books. And kept the house. And raised
By Ron Hayes
OCEAN RIDGE — William F. “Bill” Jackson, a resident of Delray Beach and Ocean Ridge for more than 20 years, died Sept. 21 at Wellington Regional Medical Center following surgery. He was 73. “Bill was a wonderful neighbor. He always
Raised in Titusville, Dr. Chapman graduated from the University of Memphis, College of Medicine, in 1977. A well-regarded
