Kelly Barrette and Raymond Jones distribute signs around their coastal Delray Beach neigh-borhood to protest the planned upscale recovery houses for people with drug and alcohol addictions. Photo by Jerry Lower
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By Thomas R. Collins
The decision by Caron Treatment Centers to spend millions of dollars to buy two large houses near the ocean in Delray Beach is designed to expand the organization’s addiction-treatment offerings.
It could also be seen as a shrew
Rich Draper, co-owner of the Ice Cream Club, reminisces with Kathy Willoughby at his Manalapan shop. Photo by Jerry Lower
By Ron Hayes
Here’s the big scoop.
Thirty years ago, two former fraternity brothers from the University of Illinois at Ur
The big bully. The mean kid. We always knew them when we saw them.
Generations of parents helped their children face the school bully, and surviving their attacks came to seem a rite of passage to adulthood.
Somehow, though, the tough-it-out
Sea Angels founders (l-r) Rod and Kathy Silverio and Robyn and Mike Halasz prepare for a cleanup event at the Boynton Beach Inlet in late January. The group aims to remove litter from the beaches with a ‘minimal carbon footprint and without disturbin
By Tim O’Meilia
A former Lantana police officer was sentenced to three years in prison Jan. 10 after pleading guilty to stealing cash from Hispanic men during traffic stops.
Mark Ott, 36, pleaded guilty to three counts of targeting Hispanic me
By Jan NorrisLots of activity in local restaurants. Star chef Michelle Bernstein has left The Omphoy as restaurateur. Official word from her publicist didn’t elaborate beyond saying she’s leaving effective Feb. 1 and that, “She and husband/partner Da
By Steve Plunkett
Boca Raton and Delray Beach are tracking a bill in the Florida Senate that would establish rules for a “sober house transitional living home.”
The proposal by state Sen. Ellyn Setnor Bogdanoff, R-Fort Lauderdale, would require supe
By Tim O’Meilia
While the Ocean Avenue Bridge is rebuilt beginning in mid-March, Lantana’s Hypoluxo Island residents may see the strobing blue lights of a Manalapan or South Palm Beach police cruiser first when they call for law enforcement help
By Steve Plunkett
WPBT’s Evening With Jim Lehrer this month gives top billing to the longtime PBS news anchor and presidential debate moderator, but Gulf Stream Mayor William Koch Jr. comes in a close second.
The Miami-based station will present Ko
By Steve Plunkett
Water bills in Gulf Stream will have a new $30 charge every two months to save up for future repairs.
“Basically what we are recommending is that we immediately begin billing an additional base fee,” Town Manager William Thras
Ellen Glendinning Frazer Ordway was photographed taking a photograph in 1938.
By Mary Thurwachter
For quite a few years, mostly in the 1920s and ’30s, Philadelphian photographer Ellen Glendinning Frazer Ordway chronicled the lives of prominent,
Robert Rookie, 21, of Delray Beach checks out the Stanley Cup at Boston’s on the Beach on Jan. 19. The trophy and a few Bruins (2011 champs) are on a national tour. Photo by Kurtis Boggs
By Thom Smith
Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye. Forthwith, insofar
Commissioners are considering budget cuts and a reconstituted fire fee to make up a $3.2 million shortfall resulting from the defeat of a fire assessment after vehement public protest.
The panel directed City Manager David Harden to work toward a 50-5
By Margie Plunkett
The question for Delray Beach voters this year: Should commission terms be lengthened to three years from the current two years?
Commissioners voted to add the question to the March 13 election ballot. “The commission is onl
By Angie Francalancia
Delray Beach police have closed their investigation into the April fatality in which a bicyclist was killed on A1A by a truck. The driver was not at fault, and police have no basis to charge him, said Sgt. Richard Jacobson, w
By Margie Plunkett
To meter or not to meter, that was the question at two Delray Beach meetings last month intended to generate ideas that will get the city closer to resolving its longtime parking issues.
More than 50 merchants, restaurateurs
Drop the “interim” in Boynton Beach Fire Chief Ray Carter’s title. He’s permanent now.
In a release last month, Boynton interim City Manager Lori LaVerriere announced that Carter will take over the job, including overseeing how the department mig
By Emily J. Minor
Feeling old, like you’ve lived in Florida since the beginning of time?
Think again.
Human bones unearthed at an ocean-side estate construction site in Delray Beach are those of an adult and an adolescent and are probably ab
The Beachcomber Family Center for Addiction Recovery resembles an apartment complex or mom-and-pop hotel. Joe and Jim Bryan run the center, founded in 1976 by their father. The spartan rooms are paneled in Dade County pine.
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