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
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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
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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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By Antigone Barton
MANALAPAN — While election season raged elsewhere, change came quietly to this town, with the ascension of William “Tom” Gerrard to mayor.
Even without the clamor of a contentious campaign, the vice mayor who was appointed by unan
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By Thomas R. Collins
Mayor William Koch Jr. has been the mayor of Gulf Stream since 1966 and has gotten to know many a politician. As far as he’s concerned, one of the good eggs is County Commissioner Mary McCarty. When the town needed help with p
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DELRAY BEACH — City commissioners this month will debate the first in a series of necessary approvals that would allow for the development of condos, shops and office space west of the Intracoastal Waterway. Commissioners on Nov. 18 will address a re
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By Mary Kate Leming
BOYNTON BEACH — The city’s 1927 high school won a 3-2 decision in its favor, when city commissioners voted Oct. 21 to research funding or potential partnerships to rescue the old building. At the outset of the hour-long discussio
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By Ron Hayes
DELRAY BEACH — One of the city’s oldest houses has a new home, a new name and a future as bright as its past.
In 1908, when a young man named Horace Hunt arrived from New Jersey to grow tomatoes, beans and pineapples along a canal in th
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OCEAN RIDGE — A resident for nearly 20 years, Mr. Mangione served on the Town Commission from 1982 until 1994, including four terms as mayor.
Mr. Mangione died Oct. 8 after a brief illness. He was 67.
A financial adviser, Mr. Magione brought his prof
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By Hector Florin
BRINY BREEZES — Months after the completion of three new residential tunnels across State Road A1A in Manalapan, the Town Council will consider whether it should follow suit.
At the Oct. 23 Town Council meeting, Briny Breezes Inc. d
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A Coastal Star of the Month Ocean Ridge police Lieutenant Chris Yannuzzi stepped up to bat when illness and injuries hit the town management team. In addition to his normal duties as an investigator in the Police Department, Yannuzzi agreed to overse
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