An elderly South Palm Beach couple killed in the crash of a small airplane was moving back to their longtime Chicago-area home so the husband could be near family while he was being treated for an illness.
John W. Bialek, 80, his wife, Ilomae, 75, and
All Posts (13368)
Sort by
By Steve Plunkett
The Spence estate is no more.
A demolition crew razed the 74-year-old house in late November, keeping the property on track to become Gulf Stream’s first subdivision in recent memory. Seaside Builders LLC won approval Nov. 10 t
By Steve Plunkett
Townsfolk apparently don’t like paying the interest that comes with installment plans.
Gulf Stream took in $3.2 million in prepayments of the special assessment for the underground utilities project by the Nov. 1 deadline, Tow
By Angie Francalancia
It started this summer with a string of annoying vandalisms to cars. Over Labor Day weekend, a neighbor was cleaned out in what police described as a professional burglary. In October, a neighbor scared off a would-be robber
By Margie Plunkett
The Fontaine Fox property is losing a 50-foot swath of land to a garden owned by the daughter of Miracle-Gro’s founder.
Now owned by developer Frank McKinney, that slice of Fontaine Fox history will become the property of Kat
By Mary Jane Fine
A generous offer from Seaside Builders to provide services, labor and material at cost has potentially moved Delray’s back-to-the-future beachfront pavilion one hurdle closer to realization.
“It is very encouraging,” says Bob
By Steve Plunkett
Will Palm Beach County’s renewed emphasis on ethics become the Grinch who stole Christmas gifts from municipal employees?
The Commission on Ethics was set to discuss gift-giving guidelines for town workers and other government emp
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
When it comes to food shopping, you probably have a favorite store you regularly visit. You are familiar with the layout, have a preferred day to shop and know the cashiers who will speed you through the line.
So when
A rendering for the proposed 7-Eleven shows 8-foot-wide
sidewalks and enlarged window panels.
Rendering provided by Mummaw & Associates
By Margie Plunkett
The highly contested redevelopment of a property at 800-899 E. Palmetto Park Road —includi
Junior League of Boca Raton past presidents and other members
gather around a sand castle on the beach.
Photos courtesy of the Junior League of Boca Raton
Junior League Today: Photos
By Ron Hayes
In 1971, a group of 26 young women declared them
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
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
