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By Margie Plunkett

Lantana has approved a lease deal with the Lantana Athletic Association that gives ituse of a portion of the Sports Complex for free in exchange for maintaining the quadruplex for the next baseball and softball season.

“We han

By Tim O’Meilia

Let the music play on, play on, play on.

That’s the Lionel Ritchie All Night Longmessage most of the nearly 200 people who attended the Lantana Town Council meeting July 12 delivered.

By a 4-0 vote, music lovers and partygoers per

By Tim O’Meilia

A heated argument between the South Palm Beach mayor and a council member ignitedan extended round of shouting and catcalling from residents who attended the July 27 Town Council meeting.

At the center of it all: the Palm Beach Oce

By Antigone Barton

While authorities still can’t say when, where and how much oil from BP’s DeepwaterHorizon drill site might show up on local beaches, they can say where the first tar balls spotted here will go next.

Packaged as a hazardous mat

By Margie Plunkett

Delray Beach finished sifting through its trash in July, ending an investigation ofrefuse hauler Waste Management’s billing that turned up about $76,000 due the city and several dysfunctional business practices. No impropriety

The Mediterranean fruit fly invasion is likely on its last wings, according to Mark Fagan, spokesman for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services — the agency responsible for containing the pest.

“We did a full l

Among the dozens of the dead and dying and the iffy west of the bridge along George Bush Boulevard in Delray Beach, one Calophyllum inophyllum is emphatically alive.

Even the experts can’t say why. Within a single variety, trees s

They’re cool. They’re cotton. They’re colorful.

And in coastal South Florida, they’ve long been summer’s uniform: the Lilly Pulitzer classic shift.

His neighbors call him the Turtle Man, because he walks the five-eighths-mi

Here’s some turtle low-down, according to Robert Schonfeld:

The sun rising over the Atlantic warms the sand and sparkles off the ocean, making a beautiful image framed by the sliders in Jackie Balestrieri’s bedroom window.

The 8-year-old is oblivious to the perfect beach day developin

By Emily J. Minor
DELRAY BEACH — Scott Ellington, a Florida native who grew up in Panama City and always loved the water, died in July after a battle with a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He was 66.
Ellington, who lived in coastal Delray Bea

By Greg Stepanich

Beginning with this coming season, the Boca Raton Museum of Art will mark its 10thanniversary at its lovely building in Mizner Park.

It moved there in January 2001 after having been in a small space on Palmetto ParkRoad since 19

Hurricanes can put the hurry in you. When Hurricane Andrew took aim on South Florida in1992, I stood inside my bathtub with my roommate and three puzzled cats. Living just a mile from the ocean in Lantana, we waited for the Category 5 storm to str

DELRAY BEACH — Dr. Peter T. Janulis struggled with his health recently, spending the last four and a half months in and out of Bethesda Memorial Hospital. He and
his wife, Lyn, knew his heart condition was very serious, but he h

Picturesque outside and serene within, the First Church of Christ, Scientist sanctuary almost belies its amazing journey from an Air Force base in Boca Raton to its
200 SE Seventh Ave. home in Delray Beach. The January 1949 move was a

By Tim O’Meilia

Manalapan Mayor Tom Gerrard resigned abruptly Wednesday, delivering a five-sentence resignation letter to town hall just before 5 p.m.

“Pressing family issues require that I spend extended amounts of time away from the town and the

It's here folks... in less than twelve hours, after the stroke of midnight, it's time to go a- hunting! With the crowd of divers, boats and measuring tape things can get crazy quick. Since there were four deaths last year, it's always a good idea to

Ask Nancy Barnett, managing director of the award-winning Florida Stage, what she will miss about the
Manalapan playhouse now that the company is leaving and she mentions the baby cr