If there’s one character trait that runs through Harold “Sonny” Van Arnem’s life, it’s determination.
As a teenager, he was determined to make the football team even though he’d never played the game. He achieved his goal, playing alongside futur
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The current Ocean Avenue Bridge was built in 2001 in Boynton Beach. The first span was built in 1911. Photo by Tim Stepien
By Tim O’Meilia
Perhaps it was the drowning of a 19-year-old girl in 1909 as she tried to ferry across what was called the
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
— Bertolt Brecht
Construction cranes on the horizon. Traffic backups on A1A as property is cleared for new construction and roof trusses, swimming pool tiles and landscap
Caron Treatment Center video: Ocean Drive | Ocean_Drive_brochure.pdf
By Tim Pallesen
Neighbors weren’t aware last January when Caron Treatment Centers applied to operate a top-tier sober house steps from the ocean.
They weren’t aware a few weeks la
Caron Treatment Center video: Ocean Drive | Ocean_Drive_brochure.pdf
By Margie Plunkett and Tim Pallesen
Beach area residents rallied in December in protest of planned luxury beach-side sober houses, filling commission chambers at two meetings and
By Tim Pallesen
Catholics were few in number when the Delray Beach Catholic Women’s Club started the first parish.
St. Vincent Ferrer Church celebrated its first Mass at the old Delray Theatre in 1941.
Today, the region from Boynton Beach to Boca Ra
Carrie Delafield is one of four coastal women coordinating fundraising for Impact 100 — an organization whose mission is to make a gift of $100,000 to one local non-profit organization each year. Photo by Jerry Lower
By Allen Whittemore
Carrie D
By Thom Smith
For three decades, Lou Tyrrell has generated hard-hitting drama in Palm Beach County, first with the Theatre Club of the Palm Beaches, then with the Pope Theatre and with The Florida Stage, until last June, when the curtain fell with a
By Tim O’Meilia
Briny Breezes has a new deputy town clerk — again.
Cindy Lou Corum, the assistant town clerk in Loxahatchee Groves for the past two years, was hired Dec. 20 by the Town Council as the town’s only employee. Well, not exactly employe
Ocean Ridge Police officials and Boynton Beach paramedics recently tried parking a fire truck and an EMS rescue vehicle in the garage behind town hall to confirm that the equipment would fit. Since the garage was built when Ocean Ridge still provide
By Margie Plunkett
Retirement, holiday and emergency-duty bonuses are now official policy for Ocean Ridge, formalized after years of tradition — and considerable current discussion.
Two recently retired police officers became the first awarded
By Rich Pollack
The city of Delray Beach now has a new high-tech weapon in its battle against trash-can overflow.
For months, representatives from the Beach Property Owners’ Association have voiced concerns about trash spilling out of cans alo
Delray Beach Fire-Rescue veteran Danielle Connor was named chief in December, following the resignation of David James effective Nov. 12 after extensive absences due to health issues.
Connor has been with the Delray Beach Fire-Rescue since 1993 and ha
By Steve Plunkett
Gulf Stream town leaders have abandoned hope of recovering any property taxes that residents of the annexed pocket are paying Palm Beach County for services they no longer receive.
At the town’s urging, County Commissioner Ste
By Margie Plunkett
Boston’s continuing restaurant renovation withstood a neighbor’s appeal before the City Commission, but not before the establishment gave up a planned outdoor lobster cooker.
Commissioners later required an additional conditiona
Once Lantana’s Ocean Avenue Bridge closes in March, island dwellers will be looking to other businesses and restaurants for some of the same services and foods. Some favorite Lantana spots will be worth the drive (of course) and many favorite res
By Margie Plunkett
Despite years of budget scrimping, Lantana Council went on a spending spree in December, approving a $1.2 million waterfront land purchase and $38,735 in beach pavilion renovations.
The bank-owned Intracoastal property to be
A group of sixth graders from Gulf Stream School, led by
Philipp Reutter (far right), came up with a novel idea to celebrate the holidays while also benefitting kids at the Achievement Centers for Children & Families in Delray Beach. Each guest brou
By Tim O’Meilia
The future of the Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn — which pitted neighbor against neighbor and roiled South Palm Beach politics for four years — is now in the hands of a foreclosure judge.
The owners of the two-story, 58-unit motel,
By Ron Hayes
GULF STREAM — On the wall of his New York study, the celebrated journalist Bill Moyers keeps signed photographs of the great men he has known — John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson.
He also keeps a photograph of Robert F
