By Hector Florin
BRINY BREEZES — Parking tickets are causing a fuss in Briny Breezes. Corporation director Robert Purcell described the volunteer Boynton Beach group’s parking enforcement “an embarrassment — it’s harassment” at the Feb. 26 Town Coun
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By Margie Plunkett
BOYNTON BEACH — The City Commission called for developer proposals to fashion a new police station and City Hall at its Feb. 17 meeting, after contemplating a $30 million pitch to move the city complex to Renaissance Commons.
Earl
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March 1 marks the official beginning of sea turtle season in Palm Beach County. Please be aware of your beach activities and night lighting during the coming months. These special visitors to our shores are threatened and endangered species. They wer
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By Ron Hayes
BRINY BREEZES — “When I was young, I wanted to be an artist,” Marion Roddin recalls. “I could have gone to the Fashion Institute of New York, but my mother didn’t want me to become a hippie.”
After her husband’s early retirement and the
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By Rochelle E.B. Gilken
I swam in alligator-infested lakes. I went rock climbing without a harness. I fought until I was bloody in a boxing ring.
But I was never more nervous about my mortality than I was while preparing to embark on this journey:
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By Ron Hayes
Talk to the mayors, managers and civic activists who run the coastal communities once represented by Mary McCarty and you'll hear a common theme. Gratitude.
Whatever her failings or felonies, they say, the former District 4 commissione
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By Thomas R. Collins
After years of taking on her fellow county commissioners, calling her own shots, blazing her own trail, Mary McCarty was the picture of obedience.
More than punctual to her first court appearance on federal corruption charges
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By Ron Hayes
MANALAPAN — Maureen and Peter Blum were baptized in the same church as children, met in high school, wed young and remained devoted to each other through 60 years of married life. “She was the love of my life,” said her husband, a town
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In working to encourage violence-free relationships and promote social change that can help end domestic abuse, Barbara Murphy and Ann Bennett have given extraordinary amounts of their time and talent to Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse Inc.
Most rec
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By Hector Florin
A busted sewer pipe that led Briny Breezes officials to warn residents to limit their water usage is still being closely monitored, though the pipe is believed to be in good shape and won’t need to be replaced.
The 6-inch force main,
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To complete the transfer of library materials and furnishings, the Boynton Beach City Library will be closed from Monday, Feb. 16 to Friday, March 6.
The building will reopen with a pre-grand opening gala fundraiser to benefit the children and teen p
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Re-zoning might give vacant mall near Gulf Stream better shot at development, Boynton hopes.
With hopes fading for a new residential and commercial development at the shabby, vacant strip mall at the northwest corner of Gulfstream Boulevard and Feder
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By Ron Hayes
BRINY BREEZES — Not long after Paul and Joan Ruopp moved to Briny Breezes in 1993, a stranger knocked on their door, bearing a golf bag and a smile. “I hear you folks are from Ocean Grove,” Paul McCarthy said. “So are we.”
For the nex
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By Hector Florin
Will longer docks on the north end of Manalapan create eyesores and bring bigger boats to town? That’s a question being mulled as the town considers allowing dock lengths to extend, in some cases, to 100 feet, depending on the size o
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By Ron Hayes
DELRAY BEACH — In the days before his death, a nurse at Bethesda Memorial Hospital called Irving Sloane’s wife aside.
“I think his mind is wandering,” the well-meaning nurse told Pearl Sloane. “He told us he ran the New York marathon w
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By Ron Hayes
BRINY BREEZES — Look for George Haller any sunny afternoon and you’d find him in his regular chair on the beach, joking, chatting and reminiscing with a group of friends known around town as “the raisins,” because of their devotion to
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By Hector Florin
The fight for underground utilities along some coastal towns continues, but it lacks momentum due in large part to the faltering financial markets.
Gulf Stream and Ocean Ridge commissioners last month voted to extend support with a g
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The developer of a downtown Delray Beach boutique hotel and a neighboring property have reached a settlement to allow the project to move forward, City Manager David Harden confirmed early February.
Legal battles mired Vista Del Mar's plan to build a
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By Hector Florin
LANTANA — Upset over the possibility that a state agency could force the halt of the beach seawall’s construction, Lantana Town Council members rushed a vote last month to build an unbuilt portion of the wall 13 feet farther away
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By Joanne Davis
With the advent of the fig whitefly outbreak, we now have a great excuse to stop being so boring in our landscapes, and to offer something we knew all along and somehow forgot: Plant the natives. These plants will take what nature di
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