Mary Thurwachter aboard the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile when she was editor of the News Journal. Photo by Paul Milette
By Mary Thurwachter
I was the editor of the Delray Beach/Boynton Beach News Journal the day it perished on Nov. 20, 1986.
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Megan Mulry’s A Royal Pain will be in
bookstores Nov. 1. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
“What can I do while the kids are in school?”
Some women learn to play tennis. Some take up yoga.
Megan Mulry tackled a royal romance.
Her famil
Janet and Jack Zurell enjoy a spin in their golf
cart in Briny Breezes. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
He made sure there were movies and she reported the news — along with a dollop of wit and inspiration.
Briny Breezes residents since 1990, Ja
By Ron Hayes
HIGHLAND BEACH — On his 90th birthday, Allen Schweizer went out to dinner with family and friends and pronounced himself happy with his long life. If I die tomorrow, he told them, I’ll feel I’ve lived a good, full life.
“And he got mor
October 6
Saturday - 10/6 - Spooky Halloween Saturdays are held at The Ritz-Carlton, Palm Beach, 1000 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan throughout October. Gingerbread haunted house building, costumes, pumpkin decorating, candy and Halloween movies. Noon-4 pm
By Tim O’Meilia
Hours after he spoke at a South Palm Beach town council meeting, former mayor Martin Millar was arrested for allegedly attacking a man with a flashlight in a Palm Beach Gardens club.
Millar, 66, was released on his own recognizance Fr
By Tim Pallesen
Citizens Insurance is notifying owners of homes valued over $1 million that their insurance coverage will be cancelled.
Coastal communities are hardest hit, according to data released by the state insurer.
Cancellation notic
Ryan Butts, the turtle rehabilitation coordinator at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton, works with volunteers Sue Comoglio (from left), Lloyd Wiener and and Connie Thomas-Mazur on Cindy, who was injured and lost her left flipper in a shark at
By Tim Pallesen
The thrill in having a public golf course on the ocean isn’t measured by just dollars and cents. But the deficit to operate the Red Reef Golf Course in Boca Raton has been increasing in recent years.
So much so, in fact, that the ci
Boca Raton Police have charged a city parks employee with voyeurism after learning that he had video recorded a woman and her 10-year-old daughter as they changed clothing in the bathroom at Red Reef Park.
A day after his Aug. 21 arrest, Boca Raton
Town Manager Kathleen Weiser
By Steve Plunkett
The Highland Beach librarian says the town manager is “non-communicative” and has spurned invitations to meet with her or attend library staff meetings in her 18-month tenure.
Librarian Mari Suar
Buildings named for the Count & Countess de Hoernle
Boca Raton Children’s Museum
Rickards House upper floor
Acts Retirement Life Community
Hurricane shelter
American Red Cross
Service center
ARC of PBC
Lobby
Boca Ballet Theatre Company
Center of dan
Countess birthday events
Through Sept. 7: Community birthday card initiative. In preparation for the gala event, the community is invited and encouraged to sign birthday card panels that will be on display at locations throughout the city. The panel
The Mark Gerretson Memorial Fishing Tournament, held Aug. 10-11, drew 40 registered boats. Total payout was $8,100. ABOVE: The largest overall fish, a 58-pound wahoo, was caught by the crew of Snowcones Revenge; it paid $3,000. Pictured: Ryan Grotto
By Steve Plunkett
Renovations to Town Hall will wait at least a year following Police Chief Craig Hartmann’s decision to pull the $825,000 project from the proposed 2013 budget.
By then, however, voters may not have the power to approve or deny the
By Steve Plunkett
Advertising consultant Steven Engel (RIGHT) and real estate broker Tom Thayer (LEFT) will reappear on the Nov. 6 ballot in their quest to become a Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District commissioner.
To reach the runoff, Engel
By Tim Pallesen
Boca Raton has begun talks with fire and police unions about the possibility of reducing the rising cost of pension benefits. “This will be one of our top priorities for the next fiscal year,” City Manager Leif Ahnell told council mem
Former Mayor Ken Kaleel
By Margie Plunkett
Former Mayor Ken Kaleel’s study of Ocean Ridge’s possible switch to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office for police services was cut short after the town’s attorney raised the issue of potential Sunshin
By Tim O’Meilia
A 45-day-old effort to step up patrols by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office in the two county parks in Ocean Ridge has been a success so far, Police Chief Chris Yannuzzi said last week.
The Sheriff’s Office added up to 400 patro
