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Manalapan: Gatehouse appearance options discussed

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on June 1, 2011 at 13:20

By Steve Plunkett

The gatehouse at Point Manalapan may be rescued by an unlikely knight: the man whose request to remove Australian pines along A1A prompted a review of town policy on exotic vegetation.
Point residents came to the Town Commission’s

Highland Beach: Commissioners close to OK’ing manager’s contract

Posted by Deborah Hartz-Seeley on June 1, 2011 at 13:19

Kathleen Dailey Weiser

By Steve Plunkett

Town commissioners balked at signing a contract with Interim Town Manager Kathleen Dailey Weiser but this time around had no

Barrier islands wary of growth management changes

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on June 1, 2011 at 13:15

By Thomas R. Collins

Changes to state growth management laws passed during the latest legislative session have area watchdogs and officials wary of the prospects for development in and around coastal barrier island towns.
The changes, pushed th

Around Town: Steve Forbes stops in at Trump’s place; no politics planned

Posted by Deborah Hartz-Seeley on June 1, 2011 at 13:14

By Thom Smith

For decades the family yacht tied up at local marinas, the better for dad to entertain big clients and the family to enjoy a little respite from Northeast winters.

Malcolm Forbes died in 1990, but the wining and dining aboard Highlande

Boynton Beach: Mizner building offered to city

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on June 1, 2011 at 13:13

By Ron Hayes

The Boynton Beach Woman’s Club has reluctantly offered to deed its historic, 85-year-old building to the city because it can no longer afford the $70,000 annual operating budget.
The all-volunteer club supports itself by renting the buildi

Gulf Stream: Critics of utility project cost-share keep up opposition

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on June 1, 2011 at 13:10

More than 30 people attended a recent Gulf Stream Town meeting, some (in red shirts) to complain about undergrounding power line assessments. Photo by Jerry Lower

By Steve Plunkett
Wearing red, Gulfstream Shores residents kept up their assault on what

Lantana: Budget reveals less bad news than last year

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on June 1, 2011 at 13:08

By Margie Plunkett

Lantana kicked off its budget process with the prospect of further drops in property tax revenue and other income that could once again force it to grapple with cost cutting. But as one council member put it, the glass is lookin

Lantana: Officer charged with multiple robberies

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on June 1, 2011 at 13:06

By Tim O’Meilia

    A Lantana police officer was arrested and charged with three counts of robbery after he allegedly pulled over Hispanic men and stole their money after they left check-cashing stores.
    Officer Mark Ott, 35, faces a maximum of

Ocean Ridge: Arrests stand despite snafu

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on June 1, 2011 at 13:01

By Thomas R. Collins

Ocean Ridge officials breathed a sigh of relief this month when a state board overseeing police officer training let three dozen arrests stand even though the officers who made them hadn’t gotten their firearms recertification

South Palm Beach: Breakwater prospects occupy commission

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on June 1, 2011 at 13:00

NOTE: Story has been corrected since printed to reflect the following date change:

• Changed the date of the June council meeting to the 21st, rather than the 28th, also to accommodate Flagello’s schedule.

By Tim O’Meilia

Clutching to a sliver o

Society Spotlight

Posted by Deborah Hartz-Seeley on June 1, 2011 at 13:00

Israel Under The Stars

Sunset Cove Amphitheater, Boca Raton

Brett Loewenstern, 17-year-old American Idol semifinalist from Boca Raton, with students from the Donna Klein Jewish Academy choir.

The National Society of Arts and Letters Red Rose Dinner

Boynton Beach Sister Cities, Young Artist’s Showcase: Boynton Beach City Library

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on June 1, 2011 at 12:50

Meaghan Donahue, an eighth-grader at St. Joseph ’s Episcopal School in Boynton Beach, received an honorable mention for her artwork. She lives on Hypoluxo Island.

St. Joseph’s Episcopal School Go Green Auction: Quail Ridge Country Club

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on June 1, 2011 at 12:48

Kelly DuBois (top left), Deanna Patrick,
Jackson Langford and Carolina Carney attend
St. Joseph’s auction April 8, which raised more than $160,000 for the school.

The Schoolhouse Children’s Museum dinner dance: Quail Ridge Country Club

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on June 1, 2011 at 12:45

Stephen Waldman (left), Susan Buchanan (Co-founder of the Tomorrow Connection), Janis Andrews and Jamie Andrews and Nora Rosensweig attend the April 16 event in honor of the museum’s 10th anniversary.

Wine and cheese reception: Delray Beach Public Library

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on June 1, 2011 at 12:43

Christina Cleveland (left), Board President John K. Burke, and Maureen Reutter attend a wine and cheese reception to introduce lawyers and financial planners to the library.

Check presentation: Sandoway House, Delray Beach

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on June 1, 2011 at 12:40

Grass River Garden Club Co-President Susan Lyons presents a $6,000 check to Nature Center Executive Director Patrick Moorehouse recently at the nature center in Delray Beach.
Photo provided

Parents get plea deal in Boca Raton teen house party case

Posted by Deborah Hartz-Seeley on June 1, 2011 at 12:38

By Steve Plunkett

A motion to suppress the evidence of an after-homecoming party where high school students drank alcohol led to a judge’s withholding adjudication of the parents who hosted the affair.

The plea deal means Paul and Ingrid Paolino, o

Along the Coast: Offshore mooring buoys program expanding

Posted by Deborah Hartz-Seeley on June 1, 2011 at 12:36

Palm Beach County plans to use state money to expand a program of installing buoys and anchor pins along the shoreline in Boca Raton, Palm Beach and Ocean Ridge.

Commissioner Steven Abrams said the project,

Beach cruiser bikes: That’s how we roll

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on June 1, 2011 at 12:30

The new beach cruisers come in designer colors. The coaster brakes and comfy seats make them popular for ‘CEOs to surfers.’ Photos by Tim Stepien

By Paula Detwiller

Delray Beach native Terri Lambert loves her pink beach-cruiser bicycle with the wic

Lantana Fishing Derby: Old Key Lime House, Lantana

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on June 1, 2011 at 12:29

Anglers take photographs of Capt. Reese L. Singleton III, whose boat, Old Key Limer, won third place for dolphin, with a 16.01-pound fish in the Lantana Fishing Derby. The awards ceremony for the tournament was held May 15 at The Old Key Lime House i