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Artist Yaacov Heller created a painting of Jackie Evancho
singing with the Boca Raton Symphonia at Festival of the Arts Boca.
The Symphonia will use the painting as a fundraiser, selling
it to a donor it hopes will license back giclée prints that can

Jay DiPietro struts his stuff on the dance floor with
Pam Casanave, co-owner of the Fred Astaire Dance
Studio of Boca Raton. 

Here are more photos from the competition

By Thom Smith

A community the size of Boca West couldn’t get by without a ball

By Angie Francalancia

Average taxpayers in Boca Raton would pay about $52 more to the city in the budget year that begins Oct. 1 under a plan presented by City Manager Leif Ahnell that combines increased property taxes and higher fire-service fees.

By Steve Plunkett

Taxpayers will not pick up the $6,000 legal bill Town Clerk Beverly Brown incurred fighting a one-month suspension for sending offensive emails at work on her official computer.

“I decided it wouldn’t be appropriate,” Town Attorne

The planning committee for the Addison’s 85th birthday 

poses in front of the historic structure at 2 East Camino Real,
Boca Raton. From left:  Patrick Duffy, Addison executive chef;
Chasity Navarro, Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce;
Susan G

Workers from Brang Construction build new tanks at Gumbo
Limbo Nature Center. Photo by Mary Thurwachter

Work continues on the sea tank project at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, which will mean four new saltwater tanks — two shallow and two deep.

The ta

Lori Wyllie (center), owner of Sew Much Fun & More,
a sewing store in Boca Raton, is pictured with some of her more
youthful sewing students (back row, from left): Kaitlyn Blade, 13,
Deerfield Beach; Minami Guido, 12, Boca Raton; Megan McGuire, 14,

You Go Girl, by Missionary Mary Proctor, is one of the works that
will be in the Boca Raton Museum of Art’s Outsider Visions: Self-Taught
Southern Artists of the 20th Century.

By Greg Stepanich

To walk in on the office of the Arts Garage in do

Reinaldo Padrino (left), Christina Padrino, Gale Padrino, Marlene Roberts and Linda Albertson attended the opening of a show by author and photographer Alan Friedman at the Highland Beach Library.

Photo provided

John Fowler, Sally Mohler, Genie Serrano, Kendall Rumsey,
Cheryl Crowley, Deb Praeg, Jennifer Finnell and Christine DiRocco,
along with some of their ‘pooch advisers’ are working to unleash
the inaugural Pooch Prom on Sept. 24 at Downtown at the Ga

Alyce Erickson, with her poodle Miss Puccini,
lives in a home at Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club,
from which she can organize fundraisers for such organizations
as Lynn University and the National Society of Arts,
among others.  Photo by Tim Stepien

Parishioners unite in prayer at St. Joseph Episcopal Church. Photo by Lauren Loricchio

By C.B. Hanif

The story of St. Joseph Episcopal Church’s pastor of nearly 11 years, the Rev. Martin Zlatic, and the Boynton Beach church’s innovative, youth-drive

Lillie Silirie (right) helps customers at the 3rd annual "garage meets estate sale" fundraiser on Bauhimia Road in coastal Delray Beach. The July 10 event, organized by Sandra Delezan Axelband, benefited local animal rescue.

Photo by Lauren Lo

Recreational boaters and snorkelers gather along the north side of Bird Island, where Manalapan residents say their presence can be a nuisance. Photos by Jerry Lower

By Steve Plunkett

The summer sun is hot, and so are neighbors of the Boynton Inlet.
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Special Report: Public water treatments can be a matter of taste

By Jan Norris

Terms like “undertones,” “balance” and “finish” are typical of wine tastings — but they also apply to any beverage. Last month, three tasters used them to help describ