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A plan to refurbish Point Manalapan’s gatehouse has stalled, frustrating landscape committee members and the man who volunteered to pay for at least part of the project.
Committee chairwoman Daryl Cheifetz told town commissioners
The real estate market for private homes might be in trouble elsewhere, but not in Manalapan. In September, an ocean-to-Intracoastal Waterway Mediterranean-style home and guesthouse at 820 S. Ocean Blvd. sold for a record-breaki
A new slate of police officers and a dispatcher are moving into position at the Ocean Ridge Police Department, following the latest retirement of department mainstay Officer Doc Darville.
By Mary Kate Leming
and Margie Plunkett
Ocean Ridge commissioners gave their town manager a harsh evaluation in October, but Ken Schenck said he was confident he could correct the review categories in question. The annual evaluation, in which
By Tim O’Meilia
Manatees — those lovable, lumbering, cow-faced, half-ton marine mammals that putter along in Palm Beach County’s Intracoastal Waterway — will get extra protection from boaters this winter from six new boating speed zones. Th
The Town Council moved swiftly Oct. 25 to appoint
A rainy late afternoon in mid-October on East Ocean Avenue in Lantana. The orange valet parking cones are out in front of Bar Italia, but it’s early and little need for them yet.
Down the street cars are beginning to pull into t
It’s
GULF STEAM — Wilma Ann and George Elmore moved to Delray Beach in the early 1950s and started a small paving business they named Hardrives. George paved driveways for $125 each. Wilma did the books. And kept the house. And raised
By Ron Hayes
OCEAN RIDGE — William F. “Bill” Jackson, a resident of Delray Beach and Ocean Ridge for more than 20 years, died Sept. 21 at Wellington Regional Medical Center following surgery. He was 73. “Bill was a wonderful neighbor. He always
Raised in Titusville, Dr. Chapman graduated from the University of Memphis, College of Medicine, in 1977. A well-regarded
By Emily J. Minor
GULF STREAM — Thomas Mulry, a lifelong financial adviser for the utilities industry who began coming to Gulf Stream in the early 1960s when he and his wife were just newlyweds, died Oct. 23 after a brief illness. He was 79.
“He loved
By Tim Norris
Down from among the tall pines of Maine in 1980, David Bunting found a small, flowering tree arching over the driveway of his new home on Hypoluxo Island. He liked it well enough — “I’ve always liked trees,” he says — and then it gre
LEFT: (front) Norma Dagher and Gina Brady with (back) Penny Kosinski and Sylvie Bergeron attended the Junior League of Boca Raton’s annual luncheon on Oct. 6. Lu-Lu Thomas of the Boca Raton Historical Museum was name Volunteer of the
By Thomas R. Collins
The call came at 2:20 a.m. My mom was about to die.
I’d been preparing for this for the last two years. But I still felt as though a trapdoor was about to open beneath me.
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
The Sandoway House Nature Center is the starting point for the first Sandoway House Blue Water 5K Run and 1K Doggie Walk on Nov. 12 in Delray Beach.
“We couldn’t think of a better way to have people see the center and
