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By Steve Plunkett

Town commissioners used a group microphone instead of individual ones and sat at a U-shaped table in front of their usual chairs. None wore a suit, sport coat or even a tie.
Their first informal workshop generated nearly three hours o

By Paula Detwiller

In an age when the word “hero” is used to describe sports figures, celebrities and various unremarkable achievers, the stories of real heroes — people who put themselves at risk to save others — become more meaningful. 

Consider

By Rich Pollack

With gas prices soaring, a lot of drivers are looking for ways to save money at the pump. One answer is to drive more efficiently — avoiding jackrabbit starts and slowing down on the interstate — but for others the answer may be to

Ricotta and sour cream make this cheesecake smooth and creamy.  

Photo by Gianna Miles, Palm Beach Pastry

By Jan Norris

The spring holidays signal a switch to lighter meals. Just as chefs lighten up their menus to incorporate fresh vegetable

By Thom Smith

Seems like everywhere you turn these days, you’ll find a film festival. No sooner does the Palm Beach International Festival wrap than two others hit local silver screens.
The first Palm Beach Women’s International Festival opens April 7

By Emily J. Minor

Former County Commissioner Mary McCarty is back in Palm Beach County, done with her federal prison time in Texas and living in a West Palm Beach Salvation Army halfway house.
“I have not seen Mary, but Mary got out of prison [March

Judi Getch Brodman is an engineer who
took up painting about 20 years ago. There
is an exhibition of her watercolors at
the Highland Beach Library. Photo by Tim Stepien

An engineer by trade, Judi Getch Brodman has become an accomplished watercol

Bethesda Ball, ‘Evening at the Oscars’

At The Breakers, Palm Beach

Bethesda Hospital Foundation Executive Director Kay
Harvey (left) with Lady Sheila Germain and Foundation Board
Chairman Mary Morrell at the Bethesda Ball, which raised more
than

Elise Moore speaks to an audience member after
one of her talks on texting God. Photo by C.B. Hanif

By C.B. Hanif

On its surface, “Texting God: Effective Short Prayers,” might sound like the latest high-tech way of connecting with the Creator

A gate kept Arden Moore’s dogs Chipper (left)
and Cleo from possibly hurtling through the windshield when
she was rear-ended in traffic. Photo by Arden Moore

By Arden Moore

My dogs, Chipper and Cleo, love to ride in the back of my Saturn SUV fo

By Emily J. Minor

HIGHLAND BEACH — Lydia Theurer Mikell Pfund, a popular docent at the Norton Museum of Art whose tours were always lively and informative, died March 8. She had just finished up a recent exhibit of her own paintings at the Delray B

By Liz Best

BOCA RATON — A longtime friend describes Joseph J. Redington III as being “outrageously handsome, caring, interested and engaging.” Mr. Redington, of Boca Raton, died March 15. He was 69.

“Joe and I first met in September 1955, when we

By Tim O’Meilia

BOCA RATON — Ray Osborne, Florida’s first lieutenant governor in 80 years and an influential attorney in Boca Raton for nearly four decades, died March 3. He was 77.

Mr. Osborne, a former legislator, was appointed lieutenant governo

By Liz Best

BOCA RATON — Joseph G. Spangenberger will be remembered for all the right reasons: kindness, intelligence and his good-natured, fun-loving personality. Mr. Spangenberger, 77, of Boca Raton, died Feb. 22. 

Born in Newark, N.J., Mr. Sp

By Skip Sheffield

 Cloris Leachman has been here, there, and everywhere and she’s done it all. Now she will share her experiences in her funny, joyful and sometimes touching one-woman show as part of Libby Dodson’s Live at Lynn Theatre series at Lyn

               Two out of three coastal Delray Beach residents would rather switch — to curbside garbage pickup, according to results of a city survey obtained March 16 by The Coastal Star.

                  The city in late November mailed surveys

By Mary Jane Fine

                  Flags are flying at the beach on this Tuesday morning, the yellow caution flag and the purple one that warns of dangerous marine life: Portuguese man-o-war, littering the sand like so many blue-tinted, oval ba

By Ron Hayes
   
     In March 1968, a ragtag band of local surfers rode a wave of anti-surfing sentiment all the way to Florida’s Supreme Court, and changed the history of their sport in Palm Beach County.
     They were teenagers then, high school ki