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The Bethesda Hospital Foundation’s Bethesda Ball will be held March 3 a
Remembering the Wilflower: click here.
The former Wildflower site, at Palmetto Park Road and the Intracoastal, as it now looks.
Photo by Jerry Lower
Harley Gates stands in front of the original home on the
Town Attorney Tom Sliney
Former Town Manager Dale Sugerman sues town, click here.
By Steve Plunkett
Has the town been paying too much or too little for the services of longtime Town Attorney Tom Sliney?
It will find out this month when competing
“Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve.
You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve
Lu-Lu Thomas recently was named the Junior League
of Boca Raton’s Woman Volunteer of the Year. Photo by Tim Stepien
By Liz Best
When the Junior League of Boca Raton named Lu-Lu Culpepper Thomas its most recent Woman Volunteer of the Yea
Loibel Clark, Zumba instructor at Jewels Dance Studio
in Boca Raton, gets the crowd moving at Sanborn Square
during the kickoff to Meet Me on the Promenade Oct. 21. Photo by Tim Stepien.
By Thom Smith
The pop music scene in Palm Beach County isn’t
In its 1980s heyday, the Wildflower was packed shoulder-to-shoulder with patrons.
The pink night club under construction in the late 1970s.
Photos courtesy of the Boca Raton Historical Society
Plans for Wi
The owner of the historic Luff House wants the building either
moved or demolished. Courtesy of the Boca Raton Historical Society
The search for a new site for the circa-1920s Luff House is growing more desperate.
Mary Csar, executive director of
More than 20 residents turned out to the Oct. 12 city
council meeting in ‘No 7-11’ T shirts. Photo by Jerry Lower
By Margie Plunkett
Neighbors wearing “No 7-11” T-shirts took the podium at Boca Raton City Hall one after another to protest the pos
Cici Garcia of Boca Helping Hands leaves food
with a client of the agency. Photo by Jerry Lower
Stories by Mary Jane Fine
C.R.O.S. MINISTRIES
Doris Mingione is in departure mode. She’s a widow, moving to Colorado to be near her son, so today
The Boca Raton City Council voted in October to move the qualifying period for candidates for city office to the first seven business days in January, a month earlier than previously.
City elections are held in March.
Lawmakers did not approve a sec
The society also will sell tiles from the Giles House, known as La Vieille Maison.
Photos provided
Pam Blom was trained as an architect but learned the art
of baking from her grandmother. Photos by Tim Stepien
the Lake Worth Farmers Market and Andy's Juice Bar.
Stephanie Robin has survived Stage 4 breast cancer and
is currently undergoing treatment for cancer in her lungs. Photo provided.
By Liz Best
By sheer definition, Stephanie Robin is the living embodiment of a survivor, but she still hesitates to
By Steve Plunkett
Coastal communities are banding with their mainland counterparts to brand as an illegal tax the county’s plan to bill municipalities for the new Inspector General’s Office.
“This suit would not challenge the vote in regard to havin
Going home
Sea turtle hatchlings displaced by Hurricane Irene in late August were transported out to sea by volunteers and staff of Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton on Oct. 20. Gumbo Limbo Volunteer Coordinator Debbie Wilson (above) sa
By Steve Plunkett
Town government wants reassurance that its doing the job town residents expect and also wants to know what it could do better.
A 14-question survey has been mailed to each address in Highland Beach and encourages residents to make
Workers from Balfour Beatty and James A. Cummings Construction Companies unfurl an immense American flag as part of the opening day dedication ceremony for the new 30,000-seat football stadium at Florida Atlantic University. FAU’s Fighting Owls a
