By Tim O’Meilia
Basil Diamond, the man who led the battle to revamp Manalapan’s voting system eightyears ago, is back on the Town Commission. But he isn’t the mayor, as many had hoped.
Instead, commissioners chose Vice Mayor Kelly Gottlieb, who wa
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By Dianna Smith
The Wachovia Bank near Briny Breezes is closing and consolidating with a nearby branch, leaving longtime customers with one less bank on the island.
The bank is scheduled to close on Sept. 21.
Branch Manager Ray Lanzi would only sa
By Tim O’Meilia
For the second month in a row, the South Palm Beach Town Council rejected a request by the Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn by the same 3-2 vote.
In July, the request was to operate watercraft. On Aug. 25, it was to extend bar hours on Fri
By Emily J. Minor
Ocean Ridge Police Chief Chris Yannuzzi is looking into red-light and surveillance cameras for the two major intersections in the town of Ocean Ridge, and he’s including Briny
Breezes in that research.
If it happens, the Briny cam
Name: Richard Lincoln
Age: 60Years in Lantana: 10
Past Life: Began his police career in the city of Delray Beach, where he served for 23 years, including a year as interim chief in 1990; served as Palm Beach County Sheriff Robert Newmann’s second2009-10 tax rate: $7.65 per $1,000 of taxable property value.
Change in prop
2009-10 tax rate: $2.80 per $1,000 taxable property value
Change in property value: 5.5 percent decrease
Total Budget (Operating and Capital): $3.5 million general fund budget; $20,765 library
2009-10 tax rate: $5.40 per $1,000 of taxable value
Change in property value: 7.2 percent decrease
Total Budget (Operating and Capital): $5.3 million
Total proposed cuts/savings: Proposes using $73,
2009-10 tax rate: $10 per $1,000 taxable property value
Change in property value: 6.3 percent decrease
Total Budget (Operating and Capital): $740,000
Total proposed cuts/savings: Would stay the s
2009-10 tax rate: $3.24 per $1,000 assessed property value
Change in property value: 17 percent decrease
Total Budget (Operating and Capital): $7.8 million general fund expenditures
Total prop
Lantana Town Council threatened to evict the county from Fire Station 37 if it didn’tagree to pay at least $55,000 plus utilities for its tenancy at the building.
Town Manager Mike Bornstein said early in August that he and the town attorney hadme
By Antigone Barton
A casual passerby might have trouble imagining the battered old building indowntown Boynton Beach as the vibrant gathering place city commissioners hoped for at their August meeting.
But coastal residents who went to high scho
1921 — Town of Lantana is incorporated with a population of 100 residents.
Jan. 12, 1925 — Daniel McCarly becomes the town’s first police chief. In January 1927, McCarly and the town’s past treasurer are held on charges of disturbing the peace dur
1928 — Building used as a shelter during 1928 hurricane. The second-floor auditorium collapses during the storm. No one was injured.
1929 — First hiIf change is coming to Ocean Strand, it isn’t coming quickly.
At least not quickly enough for the coastal parcel’s neighbors, who have been asking City Council, the Planning and Zoning Board and the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park D
Who can forget Hurricane Wilma, the menacing Category 3 storm of October 2005 that sneaked up on us from the southwest and left us without power for days?
Now here we are smack dab in the middle of another hurricane season that expe
The city’s Planning & Zoning board recommended denying it in 20
It’s home to me — from the sweet stench of the Glades to the bracing spray of the ocean and everything in between.
I was born here, grew up on Florida’s west coast, and returned to Palm Beach County to attend Florida Atlantic
By Thomas R. Collins
When I visited my mom at the nursing home the other day, I talked with the wife ofanother resident there.
In the dining room, with a crime drama on the TV in the background, she saidsomething that I’ve heard a lot: “You lo
