By Mary Thurwachter
In the early 1940s, Michigander Ruth Jones was a single lady in her 20s who began traveling to Florida with hercousin. Her aunt owned the Old Dutch Mill restaurant on Federal Highway, the very spot she eventually met her sp
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We asked local wine experts to recommend and comment on some of their favorite bottles for summer drinking (prices listed are representative; check stores for
exact prices).
• Asher White, co-owner and wine buyer of Dolce Vita Wines, 9 N. J St., La
By Jan Norris
Ice cream’s a natural in summer in the states, but in Italy, the lighter gelatos and fruity sorbettos fly off the carts and out of the stores.
F.W. Pearce of Gulf Stream knows all about this. He’s written the book on it - The Ciao B
John Katsaros has quite a story! And, until recently, not one he was allowed to tell.
During World War II, Katsaros served as a gunner, photographer and engineer in the
U.S. Army Air Corps, when he was barely out of his teens. During that time, h
By Tim O’Meilia
Walter Gregory Howarth, Jr., a World War II hero and prison camp survivor who becamethe police chief in his New Jersey hometown, died June 19 in his adopted home at Seagate Towers in Delray Beach. He was 88.
Mr. Howarth, known as
By Emily J. Minor
OCEAN RIDGE - Jacqueline Bander Weisblut, 65, died on Memorial Day after bravely sufferingfrom multiple sclerosis since she was a young woman in her early 20s.
Her husband, Bob Weisblut, said his wife suffered a heart attack an
By Dianna Smith
RobertZelle spent his life giving to others.
He volunteered for years at various places such as schools and medical centerswhile living part of the year in Gulf Stream and the other in Nashville and while building his reputation as
By Emily J. Minor
MANALAPAN — Eugenia P.
Strauss, a Michigan girl who left home for the lights and opportunities of
Hollywood when she was just 16 years old, has died after a brief illness. She
was 75.
Mrs.
Strauss lived in Manalapan for about 25
By Greg Stepanich
Three Palm Beach County musicians got together nearly 20 years ago to found a chambermusic series that would explore the broader reaches of the classical repertory, and this month, the annual four-week series returns to prov
By C.B.Hanif
The blessings are likely to be mutual once again this month when Monsignor TomSkindeleski, of St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church in Delray Beach, leads his ninth annual Knights of Columbus father-and-son contingent in service to ind
By Arden Moore
Irwin Stovroff of Boca Raton is living proof that you’re never too old to make adifference and that you should never underestimate the healing power of dogs.
Stovroff, energetic at 87, first caught my attention when he recent
Phase I plans for ‘4001’ (formerly called Sea Horse Bath Club) have been submitted to the Palm Beach County Planning & Zoning Department by OK Seahorse LLLP. The oceanfront building design (located just north of Gulf Stream) shows five stories facin
T. Clark Appleby of Manalapan crossed the finish line at the Boston Marathon in April to benefit Hanley Center, and addiction treatment and prevention center in West Palm Beach. The 23-year old ran a race time of 3:05:03 and raised more than $1,500
May heralds summer and the newspaper office starts to heat up during the long afternoons. My husband calls it the “sweat pit.” He’s dead set on replacing the
aging, noisy AC units above our doors. He’s o
By Mary Thurwachter
On a sunny afternoon in May, Jestena Boughton and Hilary Roche converse in a long narrow office at the Colony Hotel. Lucy, the beagle-corgi mix Jestena recently
adopted, keeps an eye on things between snoozes.
The women are
By Tim O’Meilia
Palm Beach County officials are pushing ahead with plans for a breakwater-and-groinproject along a 1.3-mile stretch of largely South Palm Beach shoreline despite critical reviews by federal agencies of a similar project along Singer
By Kelly Wolfe
You need an arsenal of adjectives to describe the Dub City Roller Girls.
At first glance, they are a combination of the family tomboy playing dress-up in their cross-dressing uncle’s closet; an action movie where an army of renegade
By Margie Plunkett
The Municipal Beach in Delray Beach would get a new name, pavilion and a sinuoussidewalk under a Beach Property Owners Association master plan that reflects community input from a November workshop.
The BPOA asked Delray Beac
By Margie Plunkett
The official word on estimated property values in Palm Beach County that came out in late May confirmed what many already anticipated as another down year for taxable
property values — and for municipal coffers.
Taxable values fe
