The Great Outdoors turned out to be a great classroom for 25 seventh grade Gulf Stream School students who accompanied their teachers on a three day Everglades adventure. The outdoor classroom provided lessons in many subjects and inspired poems and
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The holidays are over. It’s a new year, full of promise and possibility. Is 2012 the year you improve your personal health and harmony by shedding excess pounds?
If the answer is yes, you’ve come to the right place for inspiration. We rounded up
View slideshow of remodeling.
By Christine Davis
Candy and Mason Heydt have put the finishing touches on their super-cute cottage at 705 SE Atlantic Drive, Hypoluxo Island, the one that they’ve been renovating for the last six months. And they
Manalapan’s police history
1931 —Town of Manalapan created by Commodore Harold Vanderbilt
1935 — Manalapan creates its Police Department and names Robert D. Wertz police officer and town clerk.
1938 — After being hired as a seasonal police officer, M. D
Chief Clay Walker
Age: 56
Served as police chief since 1999
Life before Manalapan: 21 years with North Palm Beach Police Department
Biggest accomplishments: Improving Manalapan Police’s use of technology, including automated record-keeping, l
Marisa Vinas was recently accepted into the University of Miami Chapter of the Golden Key International Honour Society. Marisa serves as Vice President of Membership Communications on Golden Key’s Executive Board. Members are in the top 15 percent of
Gulf Stream’s Mayor Bill Koch (center right) and Town Manager Bill Thrasher (right) recently joined Homeowners Association President Julio Martinez (center left) and the board’s project manager, Ned McDonald (left) to mark the official opening of th
Members of the Literacy Center Committee gather at the site of the future home of the Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County at 3651 Quantum Blvd. in Boynton Beach. The 12,204-square-foot Literacy Center for Education, Training and Outreach will se
Bill Finley (left), board chair of Community Partnership Group and its member agency Parent-Child Center, is moved by receiving the William F. Finley Founder’s Award recognizing courageous and visionary leadership for community change. Patrick McNama
Dr. Ra’anan Gissin, senior adviser to former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, spoke on behalf of Jewish National Fund in early December at the Manalapan home of Joan and Bill Bernstein. Gissin is one of Israel’s leading spokesmen on security, st
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
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
