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By Margie Plunkett

Delray Beach finished sifting through its trash in July, ending an investigation ofrefuse hauler Waste Management’s billing that turned up about $76,000 due the city and several dysfunctional business practices. No impropriety

The Mediterranean fruit fly invasion is likely on its last wings, according to Mark Fagan, spokesman for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services — the agency responsible for containing the pest.

“We did a full l

Among the dozens of the dead and dying and the iffy west of the bridge along George Bush Boulevard in Delray Beach, one Calophyllum inophyllum is emphatically alive.

Even the experts can’t say why. Within a single variety, trees s

They’re cool. They’re cotton. They’re colorful.

And in coastal South Florida, they’ve long been summer’s uniform: the Lilly Pulitzer classic shift.

His neighbors call him the Turtle Man, because he walks the five-eighths-mi

Here’s some turtle low-down, according to Robert Schonfeld:

The sun rising over the Atlantic warms the sand and sparkles off the ocean, making a beautiful image framed by the sliders in Jackie Balestrieri’s bedroom window.

The 8-year-old is oblivious to the perfect beach day developin

By Emily J. Minor
DELRAY BEACH — Scott Ellington, a Florida native who grew up in Panama City and always loved the water, died in July after a battle with a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He was 66.
Ellington, who lived in coastal Delray Bea

By Greg Stepanich

Beginning with this coming season, the Boca Raton Museum of Art will mark its 10thanniversary at its lovely building in Mizner Park.

It moved there in January 2001 after having been in a small space on Palmetto ParkRoad since 19

Hurricanes can put the hurry in you. When Hurricane Andrew took aim on South Florida in1992, I stood inside my bathtub with my roommate and three puzzled cats. Living just a mile from the ocean in Lantana, we waited for the Category 5 storm to str

DELRAY BEACH — Dr. Peter T. Janulis struggled with his health recently, spending the last four and a half months in and out of Bethesda Memorial Hospital. He and
his wife, Lyn, knew his heart condition was very serious, but he h

Picturesque outside and serene within, the First Church of Christ, Scientist sanctuary almost belies its amazing journey from an Air Force base in Boca Raton to its
200 SE Seventh Ave. home in Delray Beach. The January 1949 move was a

By Tim O’Meilia

Manalapan Mayor Tom Gerrard resigned abruptly Wednesday, delivering a five-sentence resignation letter to town hall just before 5 p.m.

“Pressing family issues require that I spend extended amounts of time away from the town and the

It's here folks... in less than twelve hours, after the stroke of midnight, it's time to go a- hunting! With the crowd of divers, boats and measuring tape things can get crazy quick. Since there were four deaths last year, it's always a good idea to

Ask Nancy Barnett, managing director of the award-winning Florida Stage, what she will miss about the
Manalapan playhouse now that the company is leaving and she mentions the baby cr

On a hot summer morning, the temperatures already topping the 80-degree mark at a little after 9 o’clock, key members of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 54 have reported for duty.

Happily.

They’ve checked the boat from b

By Antigone Barton

A break in the current that could carry oil from BP’s exploded Deepwater Horizon site from the Gulf of Mexico to these shores has added uncertainty to local response preparations.

But a plan for training that will enable local

“On this side of the bridge, people wave with all five fingers.”

I laughed out loud when Ocean Ridge Police Chief Chris Yannuzzi said this to helpexplain why his department was better suited to provide protection to Briny Breezes at its June 24 tow

Maybe it’s because she was a reading teacher and librarian “in another life.”
Perhaps it’s because she wanted to give back to her small hometown of five years.
Whatever the reasons, when Joan Bernstein was asked to lead a fundraising drive to updat

A twin-engine Cessna plane that hit the new Ocean Ridge Town Hall in July 2008crashed because of a partial loss of engine power due to fuel starvation, according to a National Transportation Safety Board report in June.

Contributing to the crash, t