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
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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
Top-ranked volleyball pro Steve Grotowski, returning from competing in the London Summer Olympics, was on hand for demonstrations and clinics to support the Beach, Barbeque & Books fundraiser held Aug. 18 at the Delray Beach Club.
Pictured: Jan Kucera
Unity School second-grader Gemma Ward of Ocean Ridge poses with Director of Educational Technology Dana Fritzinger. On the screen is a page from Gemma’s Scratch project that won the attention of the media lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Techno
By Tim O’Meilia
Former South Palm Beach Mayor Martin Millar’s claim that he was threatened by Police Chief Roger Crane was dismissed as unfounded by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.
Millar claimed that Crane approached him aggressively during
Paw-ty Time, a Boca Festival Days event, raised money and awareness for the Tri-County Humane Society on Aug. 12 at The Shoppes at Village Pointe in Boca Raton. Attendees checked out animals for adoption, showed off their own pets in the Happy Dog
On July 16, the Florence Fuller Child Development Center’s Thrift Shop received a special makeover by Neiman Marcus’ Boca Raton employees and a host of dedicated volunteers. Pictured: Neiman Marcus volunteers Jarrod Gac and Marissa Vinograd. Photo p
By Margie Plunkett
Waste Management retained its contract with Delray Beach in a 3-2 commission vote that allows renewal for the trash disposal company, rather than putting the contract out to bid.
Commissioners made their choice at an August meetin
Bill Slavin, Civil War Union re-enactor, fires off a round to the enjoyment of the crowd at the American Legion Post 65 in Delray Beach. Post 65 held the Civil War re-enactment the weekend of Aug. 11 to raise money and awareness about the nation’s hi
By Tim Pallesen
Delray Beach commissioners have dipped into reserves to prevent an increase in the city property tax rate.
The decision prevents job cuts or a fire fee to make up for a $4 million shortfall in the city’s $97 million proposed operatin
