Lantana Town Council threatened to evict the county from Fire Station 37 if it didn’tagree to pay at least $55,000 plus utilities for its tenancy at the building.
Town Manager Mike Bornstein said early in August that he and the town attorney hadme
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By Antigone Barton
A casual passerby might have trouble imagining the battered old building indowntown Boynton Beach as the vibrant gathering place city commissioners hoped for at their August meeting.
But coastal residents who went to high scho
1921 — Town of Lantana is incorporated with a population of 100 residents.
Jan. 12, 1925 — Daniel McCarly becomes the town’s first police chief. In January 1927, McCarly and the town’s past treasurer are held on charges of disturbing the peace dur
1928 — Building used as a shelter during 1928 hurricane. The second-floor auditorium collapses during the storm. No one was injured.
1929 — First hiIf change is coming to Ocean Strand, it isn’t coming quickly.
At least not quickly enough for the coastal parcel’s neighbors, who have been asking City Council, the Planning and Zoning Board and the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park D
Who can forget Hurricane Wilma, the menacing Category 3 storm of October 2005 that sneaked up on us from the southwest and left us without power for days?
Now here we are smack dab in the middle of another hurricane season that expe
The city’s Planning & Zoning board recommended denying it in 20
It’s home to me — from the sweet stench of the Glades to the bracing spray of the ocean and everything in between.
I was born here, grew up on Florida’s west coast, and returned to Palm Beach County to attend Florida Atlantic
By Thomas R. Collins
When I visited my mom at the nursing home the other day, I talked with the wife ofanother resident there.
In the dining room, with a crime drama on the TV in the background, she saidsomething that I’ve heard a lot: “You lo
The city ended its 99-year lease with the Centre for the Arts at Mizner Park, the nonprofit group that built the am
For the second time in two years, Town Manager Dale Sugerman wanted the library to spend less. And for the second time in two years, he was rebuffed.
Library director Mari Suarez had asked for $85,000 for new books and publications fo
By Thom Smith
Affluent. Great weather. Diverse population. Good schools. Beautiful beaches. Great restaurants. Swinging nightlife.
But until recently it was always known as a resort town. Sprung from a hotel, it was
By Ron Hayes
In the fall of 1936, twocountry boys arrived in Columbus, Ohio, to begin their freshman year at the
state university.
Robert Neff was from
Canfield; William Saxbe from Mechanicsburg.
They became friends, fraternity
brothers and, seven
By Skip Sheffield
Gloria Drummond marked her 80th birthday on Aug. 20, but festivities are being delayed so the whole community can join in.
By Dianna Smith
OCEAN RIDGE — In his 83 years of life, Roy Titus started more than 15 businesses andhe watched carefully as his four grown children continued what he had started so many years ago.
Titus, responsible for Minuteman Press Internatio
By Emily J. Minor
Betty
Ives, who for many years traveled seasonally between her beloved Michigan and
her beloved Florida, died Aug. 5 after a fairly brief illness. She was
87.
Born
March 3, 1923, outside Flint, Mich., Mrs. Ives — who often went b
The couple, who live just north of the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton, have volunteered for nearly 11 years at the educational and sea turtle rescue center, a place they th
By Greg Stepanich
Before James Cameron made his dream of 8-foot blue people on a distant planet come stunningly to life, makers of film and television had much more modest resources on hand when they wanted to bring the creatures of nightmare to s
Educational field trips to the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in coastal Boca Raton may continue despite the school district’s budget having no money for them.
In June, Palm Beach County School Superintendent Art Johnson advised Boca Raton
