By Angie FrancalanciaBoynton Beach celebrated the completion of its amphitheater at the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum and marina-entry feature with tours and music last month — a milestone in a slow progression to convert Ocean Avenue into a dining,
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The British Colonial home, designed by noted Palm Beach architect John L. Volk, is slated for demolition as part of plans for a six-home subdivision. Photo by Jerry Lower
By Steve Plunkett
In its heyday on the eve of World War II, the British
The Lantana Town Council hopes a newly approved $711,765 contract will pull the plug on a drainage problem at North Atlantic Drive and Beach Curve Road on Hypoluxo Island that has spanned decades.
The winning bid, quoted by I
More than 60 years after it was built, Wright-by-the-Sea still is owned by the same family, and welcomes back many of the same guests each year. Photo by Jerry Lower
By Mary Jane Fine
Here’s what it is: an oceanfront motel on A1A in Delray Beach, one
By tasting samples of Delray Beach’s water gathered from Gulf Stream Town Hall [Whose water tastes best?, August 2011] we may have implied that all of Delray Beach’s water would taste the same regardless of where the sample was gathered. A more compr
By Mary Thurwachter (below)
Let us be the first to extend birthday wishes to Boca Raton philanthropist Countess Henrietta de Hoernle, who turns 99 later this month.
The countess has been doing good in Boca Raton since she and her husband move
The proposed expansion of building on East Palmetto Road also calls for a facelift for the building.
By Mary Thurwachter
A plan to expand and redevelop a building on East Palmetto Park Road narrowly won approval from the Planning and Zoning Boar
The existing boardwalk areas of the parks would be
expanded to provide more access to picnic areas and
the mangrove stands. Photo by Jerry Lower
By Steve Plunkett
The county plans to convert an overgrown spoil island in Lake Wyman into a seagrass
September is a transitional month for Americans. We celebrate Labor Day, enjoy the start of autumn, and football season begins. In Florida, September is also viewed with caution as it’s the peak month of hurricane season.
For all of us, the event
Highland Beach Police Chief Craig Hartmann was presented a framed Lifesaving Award at the Town Commission’s regular meeting in August for helping to save a resident from jumping from a 10-story building in June.
Hartmann “personally took charge” of a
By Margie Plunkett
Boca Raton leaders looking for creative ways to drive revenue up in another tight budget year have raised the possibility of selling a city golf course.
The idea came up at a recent council meeting, during which members struggled
Artist Yaacov Heller created a painting of Jackie Evancho
singing with the Boca Raton Symphonia at Festival of the Arts Boca.
The Symphonia will use the painting as a fundraiser, selling
it to a donor it hopes will license back giclée prints that can
Jay DiPietro struts his stuff on the dance floor with
Pam Casanave, co-owner of the Fred Astaire Dance
Studio of Boca Raton.
Here are more photos from the competition
By Thom Smith
A community the size of Boca West couldn’t get by without a ball
By Angie Francalancia
Average taxpayers in Boca Raton would pay about $52 more to the city in the budget year that begins Oct. 1 under a plan presented by City Manager Leif Ahnell that combines increased property taxes and higher fire-service fees.
By Steve Plunkett
Taxpayers will not pick up the $6,000 legal bill Town Clerk Beverly Brown incurred fighting a one-month suspension for sending offensive emails at work on her official computer.
“I decided it wouldn’t be appropriate,” Town Attorne
The planning committee for the Addison’s 85th birthday
poses in front of the historic structure at 2 East Camino Real,
Boca Raton. From left: Patrick Duffy, Addison executive chef;
Chasity Navarro, Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce;
Susan G
Workers from Brang Construction build new tanks at Gumbo
Limbo Nature Center. Photo by Mary Thurwachter
Work continues on the sea tank project at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, which will mean four new saltwater tanks — two shallow and two deep.
The ta
Lori Wyllie (center), owner of Sew Much Fun & More,
a sewing store in Boca Raton, is pictured with some of her more
youthful sewing students (back row, from left): Kaitlyn Blade, 13,
Deerfield Beach; Minami Guido, 12, Boca Raton; Megan McGuire, 14,
You Go Girl, by Missionary Mary Proctor, is one of the works that
will be in the Boca Raton Museum of Art’s Outsider Visions: Self-Taught
Southern Artists of the 20th Century.
By Greg Stepanich
To walk in on the office of the Arts Garage in do
