By Mary Thurwachter
On a sunny afternoon in May, Jestena Boughton and Hilary Roche converse in a long narrow office at the Colony Hotel. Lucy, the beagle-corgi mix Jestena recently
adopted, keeps an eye on things between snoozes.
The women are
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By Tim O’Meilia
Palm Beach County officials are pushing ahead with plans for a breakwater-and-groinproject along a 1.3-mile stretch of largely South Palm Beach shoreline despite critical reviews by federal agencies of a similar project along Singer
By Kelly Wolfe
You need an arsenal of adjectives to describe the Dub City Roller Girls.
At first glance, they are a combination of the family tomboy playing dress-up in their cross-dressing uncle’s closet; an action movie where an army of renegade
By Margie Plunkett
The Municipal Beach in Delray Beach would get a new name, pavilion and a sinuoussidewalk under a Beach Property Owners Association master plan that reflects community input from a November workshop.
The BPOA asked Delray Beac
By Margie Plunkett
The official word on estimated property values in Palm Beach County that came out in late May confirmed what many already anticipated as another down year for taxable
property values — and for municipal coffers.
Taxable values fe
Palm Beach County Emergency Operations Center
Palm Beach County has links to continually updated information on the spill, preparations in the event of its arrival in Palm Beach County, volunteer options and more on its website at:
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To stay informed and involved
By Antigone Barton
As the black cloud of oil from the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform neared the loop current that brings the Gulf Stream up the Atlantic coast, town managers,
administrators and rescue offici
By Margie Plunkett
Ocean Ridge town commissioners were the arbiters of nature last month, ruling down with the no-see-um, and up with the bird (the feathered variety, that is).
In two s
For two decades, Florida Stage has brightened the cultural landscape far beyond its little corner in Manalapan. Inevitably, the magnitude of the little company has
grown, so its orbit had to expand.
On June 20, the last lines of the
By Thomas R. Collins
Since Boynton Beach brought up the idea of annexing pieces of unincorporated barrierisland land, several residents have made it known that they’d prefer to be part of Gulf Stream instead.
As a result, Gulf Stream town offici
By Margie Plunkett
Mayor Roger Bennett is asking the two police agencies bidding to provide BrinyBreezes protection to forego annual 4 percent increases, a move that delayed a vote at the Town Council’s May meeting.
The town now plans to choose a
By Kelly Wolfe
Loyal WXEL listeners said they were not pleased to learn their favorite public radiostation was sold in April to a Miami classical music station.
“I just think it would be a tremendous loss,” said Marna Hirshhorn of DelrayBeach. “I
By Tim O’Meilia
Conflicting locations given by scores of 911 callers to emergency dispatchers sent rescuersto the wrong location, at first, of what became the accidental drowning of a Georgia couple in a strong rip current behind a South Palm Bea
By Tim O’Meilia
A week later, Harvey Kertzman is second-guessing himself.
“What if I had gone downstairs a minute earlier? What if I had turned her on herside? Should I have spun her around so her head was lower than her body? What should I hav
By Margie Plunkett
Manalapan commissioners welcomed new Town Manager Tom Heck with relief and a rapidlygrowing to-do list. Heck’s first meeting opened with the mayor’s response to accusations that he proposed a turtle protection ordinance for per
The George Bush Boulevard Bridge will close to motorists and pedestrians sometimelate in July for four months while the county makes repairs, according to Palm Beach County Bridge Superintendent Barry Meve. The bridge closing isn’t expected to int
By Linda Haase
The Boynton Harbor Marina should be a waterfront destination, city officialscontend.
And renovations designed to bring more people to the facility, which was purchasedby the Community Redevelopment Agency in 2006, have begun.
S
By Christine Davis
What goes around comes around, and, when it comes to coastal real estate, it lookslike it might be coming around again, observes Judi Lukens, a Realtor with Premier Estate Properties in Delray Beach.
“Across the board, we are
Meet Your Neighbor — Bruce Gimmy
What have dads (and other guys) found fashionable over the years? The preppy look isalways in, one way or another, said Bruce Gimmy, owner of the Trouser Shop on Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach. He, for one, has
By Margie Plunkett
A plan that would allow Lantana Police Chief Rick Lincoln to retire early received preliminary approval from the Town Council, a move that could shuffle
Police Department leadership to the tune of a $125,000 savings.
The ordina
