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
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By Thom Smith
Heads turned. Hands waved. Horns honked.
Motorists and pedestrians from Sebastian to Boca Raton had no trouble recognizing thefamiliar cyclist during the first week of June. Steve Weagle was at it again, biking north to south to rai
By Margie Plunkett
Residents of this usually quiet coastal area have lately raised an assertive voice on two separate issues, urging northern neighbor Gulf Stream to annex them and objecting to the latest development of the Sea Horse condominium
By Margie Plunkett
The Ocean Ridge Police Department will begin patrolling Briny Breezes in October after winning council’s unanimous support with last-minute contract concessions in its competition with current provider Boynton Beach Police Depar
By Margie Plunkett
A dozen kids in sports uniforms fidgeted outside Lantana Town Hall on a night late in June, while many of the 118 residents crammed inside to voice fears that the town’s youth will likewise be left out because the town can’t affor
By Thomas R. Collins
Faced with less federal money, and slashes to its own department budget, Palm Beach County has cut back on its surveying of sea turtle nests on a beach that had
been one of the most closely watched.
The stretch of beach, from
Ocean Ridge came a step closer to becoming a bird sanctuary with an ordinance Commissioners passed on first reading at the June 7 meeting.
The ordinance, up for final approval July 12, protects birds from harm within the town’s bounds. The ordinance
By Kelly Wolfe
The U.S. Supreme Court in June affirmed a ruling that said when public money isused for beach re-nourishment, the beach then becomes publicly owned, despite deeds indicating buyers owned the beach down to the high water mark.
The ru
By Tim O’Meilia
South Palm Beach voters may be asked to make a nearly irreversible decision on thefuture of the Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn this fall.
The Town Council voted 3-2 to consider placing a pair of town charter amendments onthe ballot
By Margie Plunkett
Sea turtles will continue to nest in peace under county regulation after Manalapancommissioners put off voting until year’s end on a turtle lighting ordinance that moves control to the town. The proposed ordinance is expected t
By Margie Plunkett
A recently released study of Delray Beach parking got a stamp of approval — inconcept — by the city’s Parking Management Advisory Board, but the panel still wants to discuss major areas of the proposal before it’s put into
Two competing nonprofits showed how they would revamp and re-energize WXEL publictelevision and radio at a public forum June 29.
The Delray Beach-based Strategic Broadcast Media Group and the Community BroadcastFoundation are both
By Mike Readling
The summer has barely gotten under way and already there have been a couple oftragic deaths along the Intracoastal Waterway. Deaths that, with the most basic of precautions, likely could have been avoided.
The United States Coas
A Mediterranean fruit fly has been found in a trap in the 100 block of Andrews Avenue in Delray Beach. This is the first detection of the pest outside of Boca
Raton, according to the Florida Department of Agriculture.
Medflies are an invasive spec
Ask a wine professional
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
For those who stay in South Florida this summer, there’s one reward: plenty of hot,
humid weather that is the perfect excuse to chill out with a bottle of wine.
“A glass of wine brightens up ev
By Mary Thurwachter
In the early 1940s, Michigander Ruth Jones was a single lady in her 20s who began traveling to Florida with hercousin. Her aunt owned the Old Dutch Mill restaurant on Federal Highway, the very spot she eventually met her sp
We asked local wine experts to recommend and comment on some of their favorite bottles for summer drinking (prices listed are representative; check stores for
exact prices).
• Asher White, co-owner and wine buyer of Dolce Vita Wines, 9 N. J St., La
By Jan Norris
Ice cream’s a natural in summer in the states, but in Italy, the lighter gelatos and fruity sorbettos fly off the carts and out of the stores.
F.W. Pearce of Gulf Stream knows all about this. He’s written the book on it - The Ciao B
John Katsaros has quite a story! And, until recently, not one he was allowed to tell.
During World War II, Katsaros served as a gunner, photographer and engineer in the
U.S. Army Air Corps, when he was barely out of his teens. During that time, h
