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Garden Club eyes fallow land for planting dune-friendly foliage: Ocean Ridge

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on December 9, 2008 at 15:20

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

Mayor not seeking re-election: Delray Beach

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on December 9, 2008 at 15:02

By Hector Florin Mayor Rita Ellis announced that she will not be seeking re-election in March, citing another round of reconstructive surgery to heal her right foot injured at a city event in April. Ellis was elected to the commission in 2005 and wo

Red light cameras coming to Delray

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on December 9, 2008 at 14:55

Delray Beach commissioners agreed on Nov. 18 to install cameras at city traffic lights with the purpose of catching red-light runners. Penalties will cost drivers $125, but no points on a driver’s license. Neither the date nor the locations where the

Delray Yacht Club to reopen

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on December 9, 2008 at 14:54

By Hector Florin Commissioners agreed on Nov. 18 to allow the Delray Beach Yacht Club building to reopen. Closed in February 2006, the club’s location on MacFarlane Drive east of the Intracoastal Waterway has been eyed for redevelopment, which has s

McKinney agrees to move tree house: Delray Beach

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on December 9, 2008 at 14:52

By Hector Florin The six-year saga over the tree house on the property of the historic Fontaine Fox home on North Ocean Boulevard might finally be over. Property owner and mansion builder Frank McKinney said he will move the tree house out of the Fo

Delray Marriott expansion

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on December 9, 2008 at 14:51

By Hector Florin The Delray Beach Marriott plans to expand its 271-room hotel with 36 additional suites in two new buildings, as well as add space for shops and a new kitchen for banquets, and expand its restaurant space and pool deck. City commissi

Lantana rushes to build seawall

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on December 9, 2008 at 14:41

By Antigone Barton LANTANA — A precarious structure in front of a condominium to the north, a rush to build when supplies are scarce, and a drill-resisting bed of cement-like sand are among the challenges this town faces in building a wall to save i

Historians of the ‘Halls’ have tales to tell: Ocean Ridge, Gulf Stream, Delray Beach, Briny Breezes, Manalapan, Lantana

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on December 9, 2008 at 14:32

By Ron Hayes Sometimes there are towns before there are town halls. Ocean Ridge was incorporated — as Boynton Beach — in 1931. But its first Town Hall wasn’t built until 1937. As Gail Adams Aaskov recalls in The History of Ocean Ridge, the first tow

Neighbors await resolution of Boynton club's future: Gulf Stream

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on December 9, 2008 at 14:30

By Antigone Barton GULF STREAM — Calm had come to the southern end of Boynton Beach since the raucous strip club across the street had finally closed, and Gulf Stream’s Place Au Soleil residents eagerly awaited the shops and trolley stop that city o

A deadly hatching season so far along Ocean Ridge, Delray Beach

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on December 9, 2008 at 14:30

OCEAN RIDGE — The best beaches for people can be the most treacherous terrain for newly hatched turtles searching for the sea, environmental analysts say. That is one explanation for preliminary data showing that 1,784 sea turtles hatched in Ocean Ri

Ocean Ridge Town Hall hailed as success

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on December 9, 2008 at 14:27

By Ron Hayes OCEAN RIDGE — When residents gathered for their annual Light The Lights celebration Dec. 5, those long strings of twinkling white bulbs didn’t brighten only the holiday season. They also shone on a beautiful new Town Hall and a new chap

A Coastal Star of the Month: Delray Beach

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on December 9, 2008 at 10:04

Delray Beach resident Kari Shipley can always be found doing something for others. Whether making a special dinner for a friend who is going through chemotherapy, or finding volunteers for myriad local events, she can always be counted on for much-ne

Boynton Inlet Options - Ocean Ridge, Manalapan, Hypoluxo Island

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on December 5, 2008 at 17:08

How wide and how deep? Options for changing the Boynton Inlet: Alternative 1: Same width but 5 feet deeper. Estimated cost: $2.2 million. Alternative 2: Same width but 10 feet deeper. Cost: $3.1 million. Alternative 3: 50 feet wider and 10 feet d

Boynton Inlet targeted for change, but caveats loom - Ocean Ridge, Manalapan, Hypoluxo Island

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on December 5, 2008 at 17:00

By Thomas R. Collins Since it was built in 1927, the Boynton Inlet has seen regular nips and tucks and tweaks, with changes to its jetties and a system installed for shifting sand to the sand-needy south end. Time for an all-out overhaul, some local

Coconut-orange butterballs: A delicious twist on an old favorite.

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on November 24, 2008 at 10:54

1 ¼ cups sweetened flaked coconut 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature 2 ¼ cups sifted confectioner’s sugar 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour grated zest of 1 orange ½ teaspoon salt Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spread co

Joe Froggers

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on November 24, 2008 at 10:34

This cookie has great legend behind it, linking it to a Revolutionary War veteran in Marblehead, Mass. The story and recipe I got come from the cookbook, America’s Best Lost Recipes. They write that Black Joe Brown, a freed slave, and Aunt Cresse ope

DR. WILLIAM R. TOLFORD: Briny Breezes

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on November 5, 2008 at 16:13

By Ron Hayes BRINY BREEZES — His name was William, but friends called him “Bill.” Fellow sailors called him “Captain.” Patients called him “Doc.” And come December, children called him “Santa." Dr. William R. Tolford was a big man with a long white

Keep Boynton Beach across the bridge: Opinion

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on November 5, 2008 at 16:07

Local Voices The eventual redevelopment of Briny Breezes is inevitable: The land is too valuable, the trailers are unsafe in a storm, and the shareholders have been offered a fortune. But Briny’s recent flirtation with Ocean Land Investments painful

Seahorse condo development falls victim to hard economic times: Gulf Stream

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on November 5, 2008 at 16:00

By Steve Pounds The $90 million Seahorse oceanfront condominium has been canceled, the victim of a tough economy and the recession in the housing market. “It’s dead for financial reasons,” said Ann Bane, a spokeswoman for Palm Beach Gardens-based Ca

Wake from catalog fantasies and get planting

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on November 5, 2008 at 15:40

How Green Is My Island? By Mary Kate Leming Seed catalogs come at the wrong time of year. Each spring, we curl up in our favorite chair and indulge ourselves in page after page of award-winning zucchinis and crayon-red tomatoes. But while we’re dis

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