Junior League past presidents at a Junior League of Boca Raton president’s luncheon in 2008: Seated, from left: Mary Csar (1990), Carole Putman (1989), Dorothy MacDiarmid (2005), Kristin Calder (2007), Kathy Adkins (2006), Lisa Mulhall (1997), Lisa
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The Giles House, home for 31 years to the restaurant
La Vieille Maison, deteriorated as it sat vacant.
Photo courtesy of the Boca Raton Historical Society
By Tim Pallesen
The 1927 house fondly remembered as Boca Raton’s favorite French restaurant
Mary Kate Leming
By Mary Kate Leming,
Can it really be December already? Those of us who live here year round may be stunned to realize that summer is over and the holidays are just around the corner, but the tourists know it’s time to leave the
In addition to the natural areas, Elisabeth Hoffman
is proud of the community gardens in Pearl City.
Photo by Jerry Lower
By Steve Plunkett
Elisabeth Hoffman is a Florida master naturalist, drives a Honda Civic hybrid, volunteers in Gumbo Li
The Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach
By Mary Thurwachter
When Forbes Travel Guide (formerly Mobil Travel Guide) revealed its 54th listing of five-star hotels last month, Florida had two winners and both are here on A1A.
One is the Ritz-Carlton, Palm
Refurbishing Red Reef Park’s three-decade-old boardwalk wound up costing $129,600 more for additional support beams and other timber, plus $23,758 to make a beach ramp accessible to the disabled.
Engineers examining the dune crossovers to prepare the
By Margie Plunkett
and Tim O’Meilia
Lantana’s Ocean Avenue bridge closed for two years — bummer.
Lantana’s lease of sections of two parks for two years — cause for fireworks. Literally.
The new $33.2 million Ocean Avenue bridge will not onl
By Margie Plunkett
A long-awaited drainage and pavement project on Hypoluxo Island is taking shape with a newly awarded contract for design and construction assistance for paving improvements.
Council approved at its Nov. 14 meeting a $26,623 c
Chris Evert (top) taunts Burn Notice star Jeffrey Donovan (above) after lobbing a ball at him during last month’s Chris Evert/Raymond James Pro-Celebrity Tennis Classic at the Delray Beach Tennis Center. Photos by Jerry Lower
By Thom Smith
With a
The new Boca Raton Garden Club ornament highlights the
The Boca Raton Garden Club released its 18th annual holiday ornament, a commemoration of the Pearl City section of the city.
The Garden Club’s 24-karat-gold-plated 2011 ornament depicts th
Construction for a $62 million, 384-unit rental apartment and townhouse complex called Broadstone at North Boca Village has begun next to the Caldwell Theatre in the old Levitz Plaza.
Permits and plans for the 17-acre site at 7801 N. Federal Highw
By Tim O’Meilia
The off-duty Palm Beach County firefighter-paramedic who shot up his South Palm Beach condominium hallway and claimed a bomb had been planted may be a familiar face to town residents.
Jean A. Pierre II, 37, was assigned to Stati
Tiger sharks and hammerheads can swim a little easier beginning Jan. 1. That’s when the harvest of three species of hammerhead sharks and tiger sharks becomes illegal in Florida waters. The hammerhead species protected include great, scalloped and sm
Pamela Murphy has two hobbies that she loves: cooking and exercising. It really does make a good combination. When you put it on, you just take it off.
Here’s some background on Pam: She’s been coming to Florida for years, attracted to the warm we
By Liz Best
DELRAY BEACH — Doris Asiel Meyer died peacefully at her Delray Beach home on Nov. 5. She was 96 years old.
She left her hometown of New York City, where she worked in former Mayor John Lindsay’s administration, for the sunny shores
By Emily J. Minor
BRINY BREEZES — Marguerite Sanford, who began coming to Briny Breezes with her mother back in 1954 and was considered somewhat of a matriarch in Briny’s graying neighborhood family, died Oct. 27 during a visit to her daughter’s h
Visitors will have to drive to Fairchild Tropical Botanical
Garden to see orchids like this paphiopedilum. Photo by Jerry Lower
By Mary Jane Fine
For Pamela Salomone, the visit was probably a last opportunity, and soon to be a lost opportunit
By Rich Pollack
Dave Spitzer knew the time had come to start car shopping.
The owner of Old Vines Wine & Spirits in Delray Beach, Dave and his wife had two old cars, both beyond their prime.
But when he started thinking about it, Spitzer decided
Isable Gelb, wearing her husband David’s cap, is offered well wishes by other veterans.
Photo by Jerry Lower
Hundreds of people ranging from WWII, Korean, Viet Nam and Gulf Coast vets to students from Boca Raton Community High School band
The 12th Annual Bethesda Hospital Foundation Women of Grace Luncheon was held Nov. 9 at The Ritz-Carlton in Manalapan. Pictured (from left) are volunteer honorees Peggy Martin, Connie Siskowski and Linda Gunn with co-chair Michelle Donahue, mistress
