By Mary Jane Fine
These are the Mother Hubbard days. In homes all-too-familiar with hunger and homes new to that terror, cupboards are bare. The use of food stamps has quadrupled in Florida over the past four lean years, according to published reports
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By Mary Jane Fine
Fourteen years ago, when Sherry Johnson joined the CCC of Boynton Beach, part-time, she began questioning the way tummies were being filled. “When you’re serving a community where people have a lot of high blood pressure, and you’re
By Mary Jane Fine
Only a year ago, the food pantry at Boca Helping Hands distributed 500 bags of groceries each month to those in need. This year, they hand out 2,000 bags a month. Only a year ago, the soup kitchen served 2,200 lunches of, say, pot r
The same holds true for the third birthday of
By Mary Jane Fine
Doris Mingione is in departure mode. She’s a widow, moving to Colorado to be near her son, so today is her all-but-final day to deliver hot meals to some of West Delray’s homebound elderly and disabled. The typed route — names, add
2011 Women of Grace honorees are Peggy Martin (left), Pamela Avalos, Linda Gunn, Connie Siskowski and Nilsa McKinney. Photo provided
By Linda Haase
They’ve raised money for playgrounds and gardens. They‘ve fed the hungry, offered solace to the po
By Thom Smith
Call it the tale of two bridges. But the climax, thrilling or depressing, won’t be written for months … or even years.
Delray’s Atlantic Avenue Bridge will be closed until Nov. 23 for a face lift. Crews will work from 10 p.m. to 6
By Angie Francalancia
Mayors find consolidation consultants price steep
Less than a month after Boynton Beach city commissioners had put to rest the idea of closing Fire Station No. 1, which serves island residents, the topic popped up again — th
Beach weddings are such popular commodities that Boynton Beach is giving one away as a contest prize. And seaside ceremonies come highly touted by the Palm Beach County Convention and Visitor’s Bureau — which counts Delray Beach
Palm Beach County hazmat team members prepare to enter the Ocean Ridge home of Frank Biden on Oct. 1 after a suspicious substance was delivered to his home on Ridge Boulevard. The hazmat team was carrying isolation buckets and a dog-collaring de
Gulf Stream’s next and perhaps final subdivision was sidetracked another month in October and Gulf Stream’s recently annexed residents got their first commission seat.
Come January, Sherwood Park residents will no longer have the choice of rear/side yard garbage pickup. While they’re losing a service option, they’re gaining an advantage.
“They’ll have their rates lowered,” said City Manager
With its year-old parking study in hand, Delray Beach is reaching out for public discussion on how to operate and pay for parking in the city.
The commission agreed public input was in order after parking management specialis
A plan to refurbish Point Manalapan’s gatehouse has stalled, frustrating landscape committee members and the man who volunteered to pay for at least part of the project.
Committee chairwoman Daryl Cheifetz told town commissioners
The real estate market for private homes might be in trouble elsewhere, but not in Manalapan. In September, an ocean-to-Intracoastal Waterway Mediterranean-style home and guesthouse at 820 S. Ocean Blvd. sold for a record-breaki
A new slate of police officers and a dispatcher are moving into position at the Ocean Ridge Police Department, following the latest retirement of department mainstay Officer Doc Darville.
By Mary Kate Leming
and Margie Plunkett
Ocean Ridge commissioners gave their town manager a harsh evaluation in October, but Ken Schenck said he was confident he could correct the review categories in question. The annual evaluation, in which
By Tim O’Meilia
Manatees — those lovable, lumbering, cow-faced, half-ton marine mammals that putter along in Palm Beach County’s Intracoastal Waterway — will get extra protection from boaters this winter from six new boating speed zones. Th
