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By Mary Thurwachter

By Dianna Smith

As the sun rises each morning, when the water is calm and other people are still sound asleep, Jim and Sande Strong peer across their deck and are reminded why they are some of the luckiest people in Delray Beach.

Paradise is in

I’ve worked under university grants that were discontinued for lack of funding, forInternet start-ups that failed when the hi-tech bubble burst and for an industry that needed to purge itself of well-paid middle management when the real estate bubbl

By C.B. Hanif

Rev. Aaron Janklow arrived at the First Presbyterian Church of Delray Beach doingwhat any congregation wants of a new clergyman. The result is TnT — or Twenties ’n’ Thirties — the popular young professionals group he leads.

The n

By Emily J. Minor

Briny Breezes Mayor Roger Bennett told town officials recently they need to plan forhis retirement. He wants to give up the mayor’s seat so he and his wife, Barbara, can do some more traveling.
“I would like you to really conside

By Margie Plunkett

A recent study of parking in downtown Delray Beach would remove a feature thatsome merchants believe keeps the shopping area bustling — free parking.

The study by Kimley-Horn Associates Inc., which was presented at community m

By Margie Plunkett

Lantana has approved a lease deal with the Lantana Athletic Association that gives ituse of a portion of the Sports Complex for free in exchange for maintaining the quadruplex for the next baseball and softball season.

“We han

By Tim O’Meilia

Let the music play on, play on, play on.

That’s the Lionel Ritchie All Night Longmessage most of the nearly 200 people who attended the Lantana Town Council meeting July 12 delivered.

By a 4-0 vote, music lovers and partygoers per

By Tim O’Meilia

A heated argument between the South Palm Beach mayor and a council member ignitedan extended round of shouting and catcalling from residents who attended the July 27 Town Council meeting.

At the center of it all: the Palm Beach Oce

By Antigone Barton

While authorities still can’t say when, where and how much oil from BP’s DeepwaterHorizon drill site might show up on local beaches, they can say where the first tar balls spotted here will go next.

Packaged as a hazardous mat

By Margie Plunkett

Delray Beach finished sifting through its trash in July, ending an investigation ofrefuse hauler Waste Management’s billing that turned up about $76,000 due the city and several dysfunctional business practices. No impropriety

The Mediterranean fruit fly invasion is likely on its last wings, according to Mark Fagan, spokesman for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services — the agency responsible for containing the pest.

“We did a full l

Among the dozens of the dead and dying and the iffy west of the bridge along George Bush Boulevard in Delray Beach, one Calophyllum inophyllum is emphatically alive.

Even the experts can’t say why. Within a single variety, trees s

They’re cool. They’re cotton. They’re colorful.

And in coastal South Florida, they’ve long been summer’s uniform: the Lilly Pulitzer classic shift.

His neighbors call him the Turtle Man, because he walks the five-eighths-mi

Here’s some turtle low-down, according to Robert Schonfeld:

The sun rising over the Atlantic warms the sand and sparkles off the ocean, making a beautiful image framed by the sliders in Jackie Balestrieri’s bedroom window.

The 8-year-old is oblivious to the perfect beach day developin

By Emily J. Minor
DELRAY BEACH — Scott Ellington, a Florida native who grew up in Panama City and always loved the water, died in July after a battle with a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He was 66.
Ellington, who lived in coastal Delray Bea

By Greg Stepanich

Beginning with this coming season, the Boca Raton Museum of Art will mark its 10thanniversary at its lovely building in Mizner Park.

It moved there in January 2001 after having been in a small space on Palmetto ParkRoad since 19