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By Paula Detwiller
It might have been a broad-daylight traffic tragedy.
The light turned red, but the car didn’t stop. The driver, focusing on his cell phone, swung into the intersection to make his left turn — straight into the path of a young bo
The parents charged with hosting an “open house party” crashed by hundreds of beer-toting high school students in the gated Sanctuary enclave ended their day in court with adjudication withheld.
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By Tim O’Meilia
Thirty-odd years ago, a barely teen-aged Geoff Pugh and his brother would climb down to the rocks at the bottom of the north jetty of the Boynton Inlet and spear fish until a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputy shooed them away.
Other da
Tim O’Meilia
and Margie Plunkett
Cooperation was at the top of the menu for the first luncheon of mayors from South Palm Beach to Gulf Stream.
Mayor Ken Kaleel of Ocean Ridge organized the meeting at Callaro’s Prime Steak and Seafood
The first driving-under-the-influence arrest South Palm Beach Police Officer Jason LaForte ever made was almost his last.
The suspect was a Palm Beach resident — but let’s not stereotype here — weaving through the town’s five-eighths o
By Thom Smith
Just like old times … with one big exception. No Elwood.
Michael Elwood Gochenour had left this world a couple of weeks earlier, but on the night of June 15, which would have been his 60th birthday, his spirit was alive and, as
I’ve lived near the beach for more than 25 years so my house is a testament to my love of the shore: seash
Left: Ye Tower Restaurant was a landmark along Dixie Highway in southern Lantana. Paul Dunbar operated the restaurant from 1925 until it was torn down in 1987. Photos courtesy of the Lantana Historical Society
By Liz Best
When the red
A Boynton Beach city commissioner’s saber-rattling over the March annexation caught town officials by surprise and caused weeks of uneasiness in Town Hall and the former county pocket.
Boynton Beach Commis-sioner Steve Hol
The DDA called for a mor
By Tim O’Meilia
South Palm Beach now has two water problems: too much salty ocean water from the east and not enough treated water from the west.
While erosion from the ocean has been an ongoing concern, a dwindling supply of water for drinkin
Town commissioners struggled with reshaping the Police Department — or at least budgeting less money for it — in their latest strategy workshop.
“We have a force and policies which would support a community two to five times t
A group of WXEL-TV supporters, including its president and CEO, its chief fundraiser and area education and media executives, have until Dec. 31 to work out a purchase agreement to buy the station from Barry University before
By Tim O'Meilia
The corporation that operates in tandem with the town council has agreed to pay one-third of the $30,000 it has been withholding from the town in a dispute over the town’s total budget.
The $10,000 payment covers June through Sept
Katarina Theresa Sperduto signs pillows with classmates after her eighth-grade graduation ceremony held June 10 at the Gulf Stream School. Photo by
Lauren Loricchio
Left: Katie Coz and her brother Joey Coz (rising junior at College of Charleston)
KATIE COZ
College/Field of Study: Sewanee, University of the South, BA Economics
Hometown: Ocean Ridge
High School: St. Andrew’s School
Parents: Valerie and Steve C
Left: John Doyle, son of John and Andrea Doyle of coastal Boca Raton, graduated from Boca Raton High School. John was one of the 2011 State Science Olympiad Champions, a Science Pathfinder nominee and a National AP Scholar. He plans to stu
Kenneth Charles Ellingsworth, life-long resident and ambassador for Delray Beach as the executive director of the city’s Chamber of Commerce for more than three decades, died May 29. He was 84.
Mr. Ellingsworth gave tirelessly to his home town, his so
