By Jan Norris
The locavore movement — that group that espouses eating foods produced closer to home — is catching on, with the benefits to farmers, cooks and the environment. Reducing the travel time between harvest and market means fresher and moreAll Posts (11940)
If you want to learn first hand about Samuel Ogren Sr. [1899-1988], known as the “father of Delray Beach architecture,” you have a chance over the next two
months to come look at his work and hear about him from people, who study h
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On a recent day, the sun glittered on the Intracoastal water outside JamesGardner’s Ocean Ridge home, where he lives with his wife of 45 years and their
sociable black poodle. It is a comfortable and well-appointed abode, but with
his c
By Emily J. Minor
DELRAY BEACH — Patricia Wade Owen, a Chicago native who joined key socialphilanthropic causes when she was a young college graduate, died March 15 at age 87. She had been in the care of Hospice of Palm Beach County for about t
By Emily J. Minor
OCEAN RIDGE — Mary Ellen Cannon, who raised her six children in Michigan and moved toFlorida in her later years to golf, garden and give more attention to her love for crafting, died in the care of Hospice of Palm Beach County
By Linda Haase
When Amanda Jean got her first Barbie doll, she had no desire to play with it. Her first instinct was to design a new wardrobe for the model-thin fashion icon.
She used any material she could find, including her own clothes, but aft
By Emily J. Minor
OCEAN RIDGE — Eileen T. Simpson, who began coming to Crown Colony Club nearly 30 years ago when she and her husband bought a condo here forretirement, has died of complications related to Alzheimer’s disease. She was
82.
Mrs. Sim
By Ron Hayes
BRINY BREEZES — The words appeared for a week on the town's closed-circuit television station: In Memory of Carl Gauer.That's how this small, mobile home community reports the death of friends and
neighbors, but this time the message wa
various faith traditions as it gets around these parts. And it just became m
By Arden Moore
The first place Suzi Goldsmith headed after relocating from Detroit to Palm Beach County in 1985 wasn’t to dine at the famed Breakers Hotel, tour the FlaglerMuseum or catch an outdoor concert at Bryant Park.
She made a beeline to an
MANALAPAN
Louis DeStefano - 77.88% | Gerald Kent Shortz - 22.12%
Total votes: 208
Howard Roder - 57.64% | Thomas Thorton - 42.36%
Total votes: 203
OCEAN RIDGE
Lynn Allison - 74.44% | Nancy Hogan - 25.56%
Total votes: 313
SOUTH PALM BEACH (
Gulf Stream School eighth-grader Olivia Gaudree is one of only four students in America recognized by the USA Today Sportsmanship Essay Contest on March 2. Read her touching essay below:
Une, deux, trois, quatre, cinq- I counted with my eyes closed.
Richard Akin
PERSONAL: 64;
Seat 2
Fred B. Fetzer (incumbent)
PERSONAL: 65; Bachelor's mechanical engineering, University of Tennessee.
PROFESSIONAL: Retired from AT&T.
POLIT
Lynn Allison
PERSONAL: 59; two children; married; BA psychology, American University; MSW, Howard University, PhD management and administ
Seat 2
Robert Evans, unopposed incumbent
Seat 4
Louis DeStefano
PERSONAL: 67; single; bachelor’s in English, Long Island University.
PROFESSIONAL: CE
Chief Edward Hillery
Age: 69
Years in Ocean Ridge: 17 years as chief of police
Past life: Spent 23 and a half years with the Boynton Beach Police force, retiring as chief of police before coming to Ocean Ridge; spent seven years as a county investig
Many of our neighbors who live in the Tradewinds and Place Au Soleil neighborhoods are upset at how quickly the city of Boynton Beach has embraced and approved a Walmart where the former Gulfstream mall
Watch public service announcement from zMotion
Plant signs and you might grow safety and cooperation: At least that’s the hope of a cyclists’ advocacy campaign that would use new road signs to instruct A1A motorists and bicyclists