By Margie Plunkett
Mayor Roger Bennett is asking the two police agencies bidding to provide BrinyBreezes protection to forego annual 4 percent increases, a move that delayed a vote at the Town Council’s May meeting.
The town now plans to choose a
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By Kelly Wolfe
Loyal WXEL listeners said they were not pleased to learn their favorite public radiostation was sold in April to a Miami classical music station.
“I just think it would be a tremendous loss,” said Marna Hirshhorn of DelrayBeach. “I
By Tim O’Meilia
Conflicting locations given by scores of 911 callers to emergency dispatchers sent rescuersto the wrong location, at first, of what became the accidental drowning of a Georgia couple in a strong rip current behind a South Palm Bea
By Tim O’Meilia
A week later, Harvey Kertzman is second-guessing himself.
“What if I had gone downstairs a minute earlier? What if I had turned her on herside? Should I have spun her around so her head was lower than her body? What should I hav
By Margie Plunkett
Manalapan commissioners welcomed new Town Manager Tom Heck with relief and a rapidlygrowing to-do list. Heck’s first meeting opened with the mayor’s response to accusations that he proposed a turtle protection ordinance for per
The George Bush Boulevard Bridge will close to motorists and pedestrians sometimelate in July for four months while the county makes repairs, according to Palm Beach County Bridge Superintendent Barry Meve. The bridge closing isn’t expected to int
By Linda Haase
The Boynton Harbor Marina should be a waterfront destination, city officialscontend.
And renovations designed to bring more people to the facility, which was purchasedby the Community Redevelopment Agency in 2006, have begun.
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By Christine Davis
What goes around comes around, and, when it comes to coastal real estate, it lookslike it might be coming around again, observes Judi Lukens, a Realtor with Premier Estate Properties in Delray Beach.
“Across the board, we are
Meet Your Neighbor — Bruce Gimmy
What have dads (and other guys) found fashionable over the years? The preppy look isalways in, one way or another, said Bruce Gimmy, owner of the Trouser Shop on Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach. He, for one, has
By Margie Plunkett
A plan that would allow Lantana Police Chief Rick Lincoln to retire early received preliminary approval from the Town Council, a move that could shuffle
Police Department leadership to the tune of a $125,000 savings.
The ordina
By Jan Norris
No matter how much you know, you can always learn from a pro. A group of “students” — guests and the media — were enlightened on s
Lucy and Terry Brown of Ocean Ridge announce the arrival of Josephine TeresaSchneider, their first grandchild, born April 20 at 6 pounds, 4 ounces, and 20 inches in length.
The mother is Jessica Brown Schneider, who grew up in Ocean R
Jacqueline Barbara Kaleel
On May 15, Jacqueline Barbara Kaleel of Ocean Ridge graduated from Pope John PaulII High School in Boca Raton. Commencement exercises took place at the Carole & Barry Kaye Performing Arts Auditorium at Florida Atlantic U
By Dianna Smith
Inside this beautiful school by a crystal blue sea are children who love to read.
Mysteries, thrillers, fantasies — anything and everything that will draw them into anotherworld, far from the cares of everyday life. The teacher
By Greg Stepanich
It was controversial when it first hit the stage back in 1967, but today it standsas a landmark of the American theater, and the first truly successful rock musical.
I speak, of course, of Hair, which evennow is playing in Lon
By Emily J.
Minor
OCEAN RIDGE — It’s never
easy losing a beloved parent, but Diana Lyne is finding solace in the memories
after the death of her father, Eugene Lyne, 86, who spent his
By Ron Hayes
DELRAY BEACH — Not long ago,as his health failed and his birthday neared, Dick Keresey told his son, Jim,
“You know, I think I’d like to have my 94th birthday. I think it’ll be my
going-away party.”
Richard
Keresey turned 94 on M
By Antigone Barton
Life had become easy for Lydia Crozier, who was happily married and a successfuldecorator, when a little-understood epidemic began stealing people from her midst.
It was in the mid-1980s when she started cooking for homebo
By Emily J. Minor
DELRAY BEACH — Francis P. Kelley, who all his adult life worked tirelessly for therights of the mentally handicapped and helped Eunice Shriver establish the first games in the Special Olympics, died in his sleep at home in late
