By Antigone Barton
GULF STREAM — The troubles that follow youth and wheels know no borders, and so, in December, Gulf Stream town commissioners discussed the need to crack down on those who would turn town streets into a playground.
The issue, here
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By Hector Florin
Calling CDS International Holdings’ redevelopment plan crucial to downtown’s makeup, city commissioners on Dec. 9 supported the first of several approvals to remake a two-block area on Atlantic Avenue west of Veterans Park.
Three o
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By Antigone Barton
The grinch who stole the economy left the holidays untouched in the season just passed, as towns took second looks at pay raises, but followed their standing traditions of glad tidings to staff members. In some towns that meant he
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By Thomas R. Collins
BOYNTON BEACH — Drumroll, please.
After two years of meetings over how to change the Boynton Inlet in response to safety and environmental concerns, the answer is … keeping it the same?
Possibly. The Boynton Inlet Committee in
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Supervisor of Elections-Elect, Susan Bucher speaks at the annual League of Women Voter’s holiday event at the Gulf Stream home of League president Pamela S. Goodman on Dec. 22. Bucher spoke about the challenges of her up-coming position including the
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Manalapan Commissioner Peter Blum joins Ocean Ridge Mayor Ken Kaleel at the DeVos-Blum YMCA annual breakfast. This year’s Partner With Youth Campaign received donations totaling $433,000 — exceeding by almost 25 percent the 2007 campaign results. Bot
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Dr. Lynn Allison and Harvey Sovelove were married Nov. 23 at the bride’s home in Ocean Ridge, surrounded by family and friends from all stages of their lives.
The groom’s grandson’s Tyler and Jack Sovelove of Lopez, Washington served as ring bearers
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Proposed Briny stock sale status report : In a letter dated Dec. 8, 2008, attorneys for Duane Morris prepared a statement for Briny Breezes stockholders regarding their efforts to finalize a stock sale proposal. According to the letter, after the ori
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By Ron Hayes
BOYNTON BEACH — On a winter's day in 1909, the Norwegian sailing ship Coquimbo ran aground on the coral reef off Boynton Beach, and refused to budge.
But come May, the spring storms at last accomplished what a steam-powered tug from Ke
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By Hector Florin
BOYNTON BEACH — Executives of a company responsible for one of the city’s largest developments have recently held discussions with city leaders to offer ideas for the future location of government buildings and downtown redevelopmen
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By Antigone Barton
MANALAPAN — When is a beach house a house on the beach?
Is a kitchen the difference between a cabana and a home?
Perhaps size really does matter, if, as one zoning commissioner asserted, “anything larger than 1,000 square feet i
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Delray Beach was recently honored when first lady Laura Bush, honorary chair of the Preserve America initiative, designated the city as one of the nation’s newest Preserve America Communities. Delray Beach is the first community in Palm Beach County
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Ocean Ridge resident Cindy Martel is the founder and organizer of the Race for Faith 5K Run & Walk. All of the profits from the race go to local charities. The first two years, the proceeds went to help the inner city kids of West Palm Beach and for
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By Antigone Barton
The little white fly that arrived about six months ago is so small that a magnifying glass is recommended to properly search for it.
But since its arrival, it has stripped away barriers between public and private property, cost s
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What’s not to love about fresh baked goods, vine-grown fruits and veggies, and fresh-cut flowers? And what could be better on a sunny, winter Saturday than strolling outdoors, searching booth-to-booth for the freshest foods for the busy week ahead? A
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OCEAN RIDGE — When residents of the Ocean Ridge Yacht Club needed advice on insurance, Mickey Metras was the man to ask.
A retired insurance agent from South Hadley, Mass., Michael W. Metras died Nov. 1. He was 66, and had been a resident of the comm
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By Ron Hayes
DELRAY BEACH — Russell “R.C.” Croft, who led the city’s Police Department for more than 30 years, died Nov. 14 in High Springs after a brief illness. He was 93.
“He drove until three weeks before his death,” said his son, Kenneth. “He w
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By Ron Hayes
DELRAY BEACH — The land was worthless, after all.
No roads, no houses, impractical for farming.
Plagued by mosquitoes and cut off from the mainland.
Nothing but sand and bugs.
And so, in 1899, three women donated a mile of beachfront pr
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MANALAPAN — Albert C. Ebert's family have long told the story of his very first business venture.
With the Great Depression still gripping America, the 3-year-old entrepreneur used to dig up clumps of grass from the neighbors' lawns in his native Chi
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By Antigone Barton
OCEAN RIDGE — The scruffy oceanfront patch of land near the town’s southern border stands as proof that one governing entity’s trash can be another’s treasure.
Left fallow by current owner Palm Beach County, the spot could serve a
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