By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
Even if you can’t leave South Florida during these
hot and humid summer months, it’s a good time to plan a future getaway.
South Florida companies offer a variety of niche tours and accommodations
in some very differen
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Guests stay close to nature — and elephants — at Sanctuary Baines’ Camp,
near the Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana. Photos provided
Learn more about travel options at Beer Bon Voyage and Caligo Ventures
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
African Gems
Trav
Flutist Karen Dixon (left), bassoonist Michael Ellert
and clarinetist Michael Forte founded the Palm Beach
Chamber Music Festival in 1992. Photo provided
By Greg Stepanich
In 1992, the cultural scene in South Florida was on the verge of a new pha
James T. Heverin
BOCA RATON — Gumbo Limbo Nature Center was near and dear to James T. Heverin’s heart. He spent many hours there as a volunteer.
So when Mr. Heverin died last month, the family asked that donations in his memory go to the nature cen
Susan Epling’s son Brandon was 4 when the pair first
began planting flags throughout Highland Beach to mark the
Fourth of July. It’s been a patriotic tradition for 20 years now. Photo by Tim Stepien
Highland Beach residents who awaken on the
Members of the Israeli Scouts Friendship Caravan performed recently at Abbey Delray North. Photo by C.B. Hanif
By C. B. Hanif
The Israeli Scouts Friendship Caravan rolled into Abbey Delray North on a June morning, 10 teens showing off great voice
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By Emily J. Minor
BOCA RATON — Jeanne Bice, who took her love for glitter, paired it with a young widow’s instinct to provide for her children and then parlayed all that into QVC fame and fortune, died June 10. Mrs. Bice was 71.
Whi
Veterinarian Marty Becker recently published Your Dog:
The Owner's Manual. Up next is a guide for cat owners.
By Arden Moore
Cars, flat-screen television sets and even irons come with owner’s manuals to explain how they operate and how t
By Hap Erstein, http://www.pbartspaper.com/
Next week, Florida Stage was supposed to launch its 25th anniversary season, beginning with the return of the musical biography Ella and continuing with a slate of world and regional premieres.
But the
By Angie Francalancia
The beach is timeless, forever lapped by waves and shaped by shifting sands.
Not so the parking meter, a ticking intrusion into the untroubled landscape that is a day at the beach.
Parking meters or daily fees are the norm at city
South County homes and businesses are still leaking taxable value, but this year it’s closer to a dribble than a dam break.
While eight of nine coastal towns lost more than 5 percent of their taxable real estate value in 2009, only Mana
Tami Pleasanton (left) and Kim Jones remember growing up in the county pocket. Photo by Jerry Lower
By Ron Hayes
In the summer of 1969, a registered nurse with two young daughters to raise started looking for someplace to live closer to her job at Bet
What to do about the three weathered, rusting FPL electrical boxes in South Palm Beach that keep the street lights on along the town’s 5/8-mile strip of A1A?
Why, ask the town’s unofficial artist-in-residence Penny Davidson, who, conven
By Steve Plunkett
The folks planning a park at Ocean Strand want a few creative ideas on what to put there.
The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District, which owns the coastal parcel, launched a new website, www.mybocaparks.org, which it hopes t
Seven years after it was put on the selling block, WXEL-FM finally sold to Classical South Florida after the Federal Communications Commission approved a deal with Barry University May 16.
The 40-year-old station, start
By Thom Smith
For decades the family yacht tied up at local marinas, the better for dad to entertain big clients and the family to enjoy a little respite from Northeast winters.
Malcolm Forbes died in 1990, but the wining and dining aboard Highlander
An item in Around the Town in the May issue of The Coastal Star mentioned Boca’s Walk of Recognition, but incorrectly called it the Wall of Recognition. Presented by the Boca Raton Historical Society, the Walk of Recognition at Royal Palm Place recog
By Steve Plunkett
The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District has given the city $2 million to help pay for a 2010 beach renourishment project that fell victim to federal budget-cutting.
Boca Raton officials expected to get $5.3 million from the
By Mary Thurwachter
For 20 years, my husband and I have spent a considerable amount of time traveling the Sunshine State. We have been everywhere from the Panhandle to the Keys, staying in homey bed-and-breakfasts, intimate boutique hotels, large
