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On a hot summer morning, the temperatures already topping the 80-degree mark at a little after 9 o’clock, key members of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 54 have reported for duty.

Happily.

They’ve checked the boat from b

By Antigone Barton

A break in the current that could carry oil from BP’s exploded Deepwater Horizon site from the Gulf of Mexico to these shores has added uncertainty to local response preparations.

But a plan for training that will enable local

“On this side of the bridge, people wave with all five fingers.”

I laughed out loud when Ocean Ridge Police Chief Chris Yannuzzi said this to helpexplain why his department was better suited to provide protection to Briny Breezes at its June 24 tow

Maybe it’s because she was a reading teacher and librarian “in another life.”
Perhaps it’s because she wanted to give back to her small hometown of five years.
Whatever the reasons, when Joan Bernstein was asked to lead a fundraising drive to updat

A twin-engine Cessna plane that hit the new Ocean Ridge Town Hall in July 2008crashed because of a partial loss of engine power due to fuel starvation, according to a National Transportation Safety Board report in June.

Contributing to the crash, t

By Thom Smith

Heads turned. Hands waved. Horns honked.

Motorists and pedestrians from Sebastian to Boca Raton had no trouble recognizing thefamiliar cyclist during the first week of June. Steve Weagle was at it again, biking north to south to rai

By Margie Plunkett

Residents of this usually quiet coastal area have lately raised an assertive voice on two separate issues, urging northern neighbor Gulf Stream to annex them and objecting to the latest development of the Sea Horse condominium

By Margie Plunkett

The Ocean Ridge Police Department will begin patrolling Briny Breezes in October after winning council’s unanimous support with last-minute contract concessions in its competition with current provider Boynton Beach Police Depar

By Margie Plunkett

A dozen kids in sports uniforms fidgeted outside Lantana Town Hall on a night late in June, while many of the 118 residents crammed inside to voice fears that the town’s youth will likewise be left out because the town can’t affor

By Thomas R. Collins

Faced with less federal money, and slashes to its own department budget, Palm Beach County has cut back on its surveying of sea turtle nests on a beach that had
been one of the most closely watched.

The stretch of beach, from

Ocean Ridge came a step closer to becoming a bird sanctuary with an ordinance Commissioners passed on first reading at the June 7 meeting.

By Kelly Wolfe

The U.S. Supreme Court in June affirmed a ruling that said when public money isused for beach re-nourishment, the beach then becomes publicly owned, despite deeds indicating buyers owned the beach down to the high water mark.

The ru

By Tim O’Meilia

South Palm Beach voters may be asked to make a nearly irreversible decision on thefuture of the Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn this fall.

The Town Council voted 3-2 to consider placing a pair of town charter amendments onthe ballot

By Margie Plunkett

Sea turtles will continue to nest in peace under county regulation after Manalapancommissioners put off voting until year’s end on a turtle lighting ordinance that moves control to the town. The proposed ordinance is expected t

By Margie Plunkett

A recently released study of Delray Beach parking got a stamp of approval — inconcept — by the city’s Parking Management Advisory Board, but the panel still wants to discuss major areas of the proposal before it’s put into

Two competing nonprofits showed how they would revamp and re-energize WXEL publictelevision and radio at a public forum June 29.

The Delray Beach-based Strategic Broadcast Media Group and the Community BroadcastFoundation are both

By Mike Readling

The summer has barely gotten under way and already there have been a couple oftragic deaths along the Intracoastal Waterway. Deaths that, with the most basic of precautions, likely could have been avoided.

The United States Coas

A Mediterranean fruit fly has been found in a trap in the 100 block of Andrews Avenue in Delray Beach. This is the first detection of the pest outside of Boca
Raton, according to the Florida Department of Agriculture.