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The town of Ocean Ridge is now a bird sanctuary, taking on the distinction with avote of the commission at its Sept. 8 meeting. The ordinance prohibits trapping or molesting birds, or robbing their nests.

Thesanctuary status means that “you can sh

By Angie Francalancia

For the first time since the sale of WXEL-FM 90.7 was announced six months ago, the
public broadcasting station’s Citizens Advisory Board had a chance to tell its board of trustees why the members and the community oppose the s

The evolution of hurricane shutters

By Tim Norris

Rebuffing hurricanes is not an open-and-shutters case, Michael Bornstein concedes, but for most area residents, openings and shutters are weapons of choice.

Learning where and how to use them is

Looking at the steel Bahama shutters on Old Key Lime House, Mike Bornstein can picture their evolution: first, wood, with down-tilted slats to let in air and light; then steel, later treated for added strength, then aluminum, later extruded for the s

By Margie Plunkett

The buzz of Jet Skis on the Intracoastal Waterway likely won’t subside after Lantana’s Town Council denied issuing a business tax receipt to a rental company that serves the Ritz-Carlton. Captain Morgan’s Watercraft Rentals said

The thought of long, slender legs and a home draped in colorful silk conjure up an image of royalty and elegance. But couple those things with cunning, stealth and entrapment, and we’re likely to be wary.

Fascinating yet scary is o

Being retired and enjoying physical activities outside is great, agree Jeff and Ruth Stein. But, they add, there’s only so much swimming and golfing they can do.

They do not sit around waiting for the world to happen, and even if they were so incl

By Ron Hayes

BRINY BREEZES — Charles Murn had a degree in mechanical engineering from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and a citation from NASA for his contributions to the manned space program. In Briny Breezes, he put that know-how to work fixin

By Mary Thurwachter

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“For those of us who experienced 9/11 in America, our hearts were heavy in two respects. One, because of the senseless loss of innocent life. But then there was a double blow to us, because in the process, the religion of Al-Islam was

By Arden Moore

You’re never too young to make a difference. Just ask 12-year-old Monica Plumb of Powhatan, Va. After reading in her local newspaper about firefighters using a pet oxygen mask to save the life of a dog in a house fire two years ago,

By Nirvi Shah

ThePalm Beach County Sheriff’s Marine Patrol unit no longer uses the Boynton Inlet as its headquarters and the area will also lose the deputies that patrol Ocean Inlet Park.

TheMarine Unit moved because of its cramped quarters and b

By Margie Plunkett

The South Lake Worth Inlet project just keeps pounding on and the rhythmic driving
will resound through the beginning of next year.

The pile driving at the inlet is part of a $7 million project that started last
year to rebuil

By Mary Thurwachter

Who can forget Hurricane Wilma, the menacing Category 3 of 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 experts
predict

By Emily J. Minor

His last haircut — before The Big One — was in southern California in February
2009, during an impromptu family trip to Disneyland. He and his dad dodged into
a local shop and got it all cut off for reasons involving imme

The Lilly Pulitzer dresses worn by our local models in the August edition were provided courtesyof C. Orrico, 1218 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. 278-5353. The store is open 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday and 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Sunday.

By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley

We’ve had a long, hot

I don’t think I’m a snob. But, except on rare occasions, I don’t go west of I-95 or south of Linton to dine or shop.

I have friends who live south and west, but I don’t see them very often. I can’t explain it. I used to work in Miami Beach and

By Steve Plunkett

Homeowners would pay $800 to $1,100 a year for 20 years to put overhead electric,telephone and cable TV wires underground, the town’s consulting engineer says.

The cost will depend on how much each household benefits from buryi