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Two competing nonprofits showed how they would revamp and re-energize WXEL publictelevision and radio at a public forum June 29.

The Delray Beach-based Strategic Broadcast Media Group and the Community BroadcastFoundation are both

By Mike Readling

The summer has barely gotten under way and already there have been a couple oftragic deaths along the Intracoastal Waterway. Deaths that, with the most basic of precautions, likely could have been avoided.

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A Mediterranean fruit fly has been found in a trap in the 100 block of Andrews Avenue in Delray Beach. This is the first detection of the pest outside of Boca
Raton, according to the Florida Department of Agriculture.

By Mary Thurwachter

In the early 1940s, Michigander Ruth Jones was a single lady in her 20s who began traveling to Florida with hercousin. Her aunt owned the Old Dutch Mill restaurant on Federal Highway, the very spot she eventually met her sp

We asked local wine experts to recommend and comment on some of their favorite bottles for summer drinking (prices listed are representative; check stores for
exact prices).

• Asher White, co-owner and wine buyer of Dolce Vita Wines, 9 N. J St., La

By Jan Norris

Ice cream’s a natural in summer in the states, but in Italy, the lighter gelatos and fruity sorbettos fly off the carts and out of the stores.

F.W. Pearce of Gulf Stream knows all about this. He’s written the book on it - The Ciao B

John Katsaros has quite a story! And, until recently, not one he was allowed to tell.
During World War II, Katsaros served as a gunner, photographer and engineer in the
U.S. Army Air Corps, when he was barely out of his teens. During that time, h

By Tim O’Meilia

Walter Gregory Howarth, Jr., a World War II hero and prison camp survivor who becamethe police chief in his New Jersey hometown, died June 19 in his adopted home at Seagate Towers in Delray Beach. He was 88.

Mr. Howarth, known as

By Emily J. Minor

OCEAN RIDGE - Jacqueline Bander Weisblut, 65, died on Memorial Day after bravely sufferingfrom multiple sclerosis since she was a young woman in her early 20s.

Her husband, Bob Weisblut, said his wife suffered a heart attack an

By Dianna Smith
RobertZelle spent his life giving to others.

He volunteered for years at various places such as schools and medical centerswhile living part of the year in Gulf Stream and the other in Nashville and while building his reputation as

By Emily J. Minor
MANALAPAN — Eugenia P.
Strauss, a Michigan girl who left home for the lights and opportunities of
Hollywood when she was just 16 years old, has died after a brief illness. She
was 75.
Mrs.
Strauss lived in Manalapan for about 25

By Greg Stepanich

Three Palm Beach County musicians got together nearly 20 years ago to found a chambermusic series that would explore the broader reaches of the classical repertory, and this month, the annual four-week series returns to prov

By C.B.Hanif

The blessings are likely to be mutual once again this month when Monsignor TomSkindeleski, of St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church in Delray Beach, leads his ninth annual Knights of Columbus father-and-son contingent in service to ind

By Arden Moore

Irwin Stovroff of Boca Raton is living proof that you’re never too old to make adifference and that you should never underestimate the healing power of dogs.

Stovroff, energetic at 87, first caught my attention when he recent

T. Clark Appleby of Manalapan crossed the finish line at the Boston Marathon in April to benefit Hanley Center, and addiction treatment and prevention center in West Palm Beach. The 23-year old ran a race time of 3:05:03 and raised more than $1,500

May heralds summer and the newspaper office starts to heat up during the long afternoons. My husband calls it the “sweat pit.” He’s dead set on replacing the
aging, noisy AC units above our doors. He’s o