A high-rise would fill the former Bank of America land at Federal Highway and Ocean Avenue. Rendering provided
By Thomas R. Collins
Towers of offices, rental apartments, shops, restaurants and a hotel would further fill in the Boynton Beach downt
I sprayed and soaked and bleached, but nothing would remove the big, green blob from the front of my favorite white, rip-stop cotton Bermuda shorts. Wouldn’t you know it? Right when the temperatures are inching upward and the snowbirds are gone. This
May is one of my favorite months. It marks the end of the busy season here. Even though we have to say goodbye to friends for a few months while they travel north, or to the islands, or maybe overseas, there are some perks for those of us who stay pu
By Tim Pallesen
The waterfront restaurant chosen for downtown Boca Raton must compete in a popularity contest.
The city will ask restaurant developers this month to submit proposals to build on two acres of city-owned land immediately north
By Mary Thurwachter
Lantana officials revealed a conceptual plan to turn a one-acre site on the west side of the Intracoastal Waterway into a passive waterfront park with 31 parking spaces.
The site, at 106-120 N. Lake Drive, just north of O
Tom Lynch and Marc De Baptiste started the Delray Beach chapter of the Boys and Girls Club in 1997 and have helped it grow ever since.
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By Emily J. Minor
Every community has people like Tom Lynch and Marc De Baptiste
ABOVE: Fifteen entrepreneurs ages 12-18 wait their turn to present to the judges.
By Emily J. Minor
If you think kids today are lazy — holed up in their rooms, Googling cheat codes for video games, making new friends only on the Web — then you ne
By Ron Hayes
A gay teenager appointed to the Boca Raton Community Relations Board after he made an impassioned plea for the city to add sexual orientation to its nondiscrimination policy has resigned.
In an April 3 letter to the board, Tyler Morris
Linda Kaplan and her husband, Steve, below, adopted Linda’s younger sister and brother when the two were 26 and had three children of their own.
By Mary Thurwachter
Weekend barbecues at Linda and Steve Kaplan’s house are filled with laughter, l
By Tim Pallesen
Residents have filed a second lawsuit to overturn city approval of the controversial Archstone project on East Palmetto Park Road.
The lawsuit halts construction of the 378-unit project that was set for this fall after the City
By Steve Plunkett
An entrenched politician and a newcomer have declared their candidacies for elections more than 10 months away.
Deputy Mayor Susan Haynie filed her intent to run for mayor. Mayor Susan Whelchel will be term-limited out.
“We
Varvara Levchenko (left) and Venus Williams share a laugh during a pre-tournament news conference at the Federation Cup tennis matches in Delray Beach. With them are Sloane Stephens, Serena Williams, Mary Jo Fernandez. The Williams sisters led the U.
By Rich Pollack
Although Congress restored funding to the Federal Aviation Administration late last month to pay for air traffic controllers at major airports and avoid furloughs there, the fate of the tower at Boca Raton Airport — and 148 towers at s
By Cheryl Blackerby
Delray Beach and Boca Raton are likely to receive long-awaited money for damage to beaches by Hurricane Sandy, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The two cities’ beach projects were among 16 projects around th
Residents of the Sabal Point Condominium on State Road A1A in Boca Raton gathered April 16 at a ‘Meet the Artist’ reception for the 10 fellow condo owners who submitted works for the Ninth Annual Art Show held at the seaside venue. Holding samples o
Sponsors, board members and trustees of the YMCA of South Palm Beach County were welcomed to the penthouse for a reception that preceded the organization’s March 8 prayer breakfast. The event featured entertainment, refreshments and networking for th
Highland Beach residents gathered to clean up the beach on April 8. Ben and Mayra Stern (above) were among the volunteers who spent several hours hours combing the beach, finding many plastic bottles and caps, broken flip-flops, plastic bags, balloon
More than 350 guests attended the inaugural fundraising event in an effort to raise money for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Well-known sports figures who attended included Bucky Dent, Jim Palmer and Bill Parcells. Donald Trump also participa
The Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce celebrated a day outdoors with community leaders, business professionals and local families – more than 600 in all – as part of its ‘Enhance the Community’ initiative. Florida Atlantic University mascot Owls
LEFT: Marilyn Nelson, standing with violinist Kristen Seto and pianist Stephen Seto, helped the National Society of Arts and Letters’ Florida East Coast Chapter hold a successful High Tea that brought together old and new members, and welcomed patr
