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Many of our neighbors who live in the Tradewinds and Place Au Soleil neighborhoods are upset at how quickly the city of Boynton Beach has embraced and approved a Walmart where the former Gulfstream mall
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Plant signs and you might grow safety and cooperation: At least that’s the hope of a cyclists’ advocacy campaign that would use new road signs to instruct A1A motorists and bicyclists
By Emily J. Minor
These days, news travels fast — even when you’re a bohemian sort like Billy Blackman — and that’s how Blackman found out a man died while kitesurfing up in Martin County.
Fast, and right to the point.
“I got a text,” Blackman said
By Arden Moore
A few years ago, civic leader Peter Blum, heading home to Manalapan from the Peter Blum Family YMCA of Boca Raton, popped in at an animal shelter.
“Our meeting ended early and I had some time to kill, so I decided I would go to the s
The Seahorse Bath and Tennis Club, a $90 million oceanfront condominium project swamped by the housing downturn, is being resuscitated by the Kolter Group LLC.
The West Palm Beach-based developer is in the process of taking title t
By Margie Plunkett
The Manalapan library’s refurbishment wish list could soon take shape if the newly kicked-off fundraising effort continues at the current pace: The drive has received more than $26,000 in donations and pledges, according to organi
Delray Beach commissioners will pay Waste Management in full for last month’s bill, declining to deduct possible discrepancies until the city’s Financial Review Board has completed a study of the account.
“Until we’re absolutely ce
Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn owner Pjeter Paloka filed complaints with the state ethics commission against two South Palm Beach Planning Board members in February and said he plans to file against a third.
Paloka alleged that Planning Bo
For the 2010 "Read Together Palm Beach County" campaign, almost 3,000 area book lovers have reached back to Nazi Germany in 1939, to choose a title they hope will steal readers' hearts this year.
They also made local history by choosing,
One day in January 2009, a neighbor on Del Haven Drive asked Ken MacNamee a casual question.
“Do you realize we pay more for trash pickup than people on the other side of the Intracoastal?”
That can’t be, MacNamee thought. But he decid
By Christine Davis
Quiet please. Counting calories is voluntary. Taking part in the census count is mandatory.
South Palm Beach’s ice cream social on Feb. 21 at Town Hall, offered an opportunity for free ice cream and cookies, free U.S. Census T-shi
Briny Breezes residents and government leaders tallied their pros and cons of Boynton Beach and Ocean Ridge police departments, both contenders for the town’s police contract, pondering factors such as policing style, patrol frequ
After a majority of Boynton Beach city commissioners pursued, full-throttle, a new police building along Congress Avenue, all five are now practically falling over themselves to postpone that effort. Plans for a move of the poli
Attention Walmart shoppers: In about a year, you’ll be able to shop at a new store at Federal Highway and Gulfstream Boulevard — to the chagrin of some residents.
Residents from nearby Gulf Stream, particularly residents from the P
By Margie Plunkett
Lantana’s plan to build two docks to provide staging for the boat launch at Sportsman’s Park will cost about $224,000, part of $300,000 county funds earmarked for the project.
Council approved the design presented by Kimley-Horn &
By Margie Plunkett
The East Ocean Avenue bridge will rise higher and open less frequently when it’s been newly reconstructed, but some nearby neighbors worry that will mean more noise.
Town Manager Mike Bornstein presented the new design of the coun
By Ron Hayes
Don’t believe everything you read about how nobody reads anymore.
Those good old-fashioned book lovers are still out there, hungry for intelligent novels, literate histories, provocative biographies, and eager to share their delight — o
South Palm Beach Mayor Martin Millar isn’t sure whether to believe his own town clerk and said he has asked the Palm Beach County State Attorney to investigate whether a Town Council candidate filed for office after the deadline.
It’
