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By Tim O’Meilia

The Imperial House might not wash into the sea this hurricane season after all.

Construction of most of a new $500,000 seawall to protect the 58-unit cooperative fromunrelenting erosion was completed just as turtle-nesting season

By Kelly Wolfe

Barry University’s board of trustees unanimously agreed to sell its publicbroadcasting radio station WXEL to Classical South Florida for $3.85 million in April.

And although the announcement was made in a celebratory fashi

By Antigone Barton

The hour was late and the Boynton Beach commissioners bleary-eyed enough to decidepostponing a discussion on budget matters was a good idea.

Still, the decision to give a symbolic nod to historical preservation by OK’ing$18,0

By Margie Plunkett

Seawall construction won’t threaten the sea turtles this year: The state turned down Lantana’s request to build after the start of turtle season, pushing back the start date to Nov. 1.

The town instructed its manager, Michael B

For recipes, see Mother's Day Brunch

By Jan Norris

Nanci Moore’s Mix It Up class at Gulf Stream School simply can’t wait for Mother’sDay. Nine students in the after-school cooking class have a special breakfast surprise in store for their

By Thomas R. Collins

My mom was on a gurney, tubes everywhere, strangers leaning over her, machinesmaking beeps and whirs, fluorescent lights shining cold and bright.

When I got to the emergency room that day six months ago, after my mom turned bl

By Greg Stepanich

The arts season for 2009-10 is in the books, but that doesn’t mean we’re all goingto be reduced to flipping on the A/C and watching videos of cats playing piano apps on an iPad (cute as that is).

Longtime observers of the cultu

By Ron Hayes
County Pocket —When they saw the American flag athalf-staff over Surf Road, the painting of Ponce De Leon against the pole, his neighbors knew Elvin Priest was gone.
A resident of the county pocket since the late 1960s, Mr. Priest di

By Emily J. Minor

DELRAY BEACH — Lisl Bischof Ekvall, anative of Vienna, Austria, who fell in love with a U.S. Navy man after the war and moved to the states — died April 17 after a sudden hospitalization. She was 85.
Mrs. Ekvall married her hus

By Antigone Barton

Gulf Stream — When thieves took a boy’s wheelchair, the story made the news.
Louise Mallory’s response didn’t make the news, but the child got a new wheelchair.
That was the way Mrs. Mallory wanted it, Frank Giacalone, her

By Emily J. Minor

Gulf Stream — Shirley Bennett, a Gulf Stream resident who was loved for her easysmile, sense of humor and outstanding Key lime pie, died March 31 in the hospice unit at Bethesda Memorial Hospital after a very recent series of

Meet Your Neighbor — Christian Leighton

Coastal Delray Beach!
“Three years ago,

By Emily J. Minor
DELRAY BEACH — Ret. Air Force Col. George Robert Brendle, 92, died in his home at Seagate Towers
Condominiums on April 6 surrounded by his family, including his wife of 67
years. His son said he had been in failing health for so

Briny Breezes — L.J. “Jay” Beardslee passed away on March 25 at his residence in Palm Bay with his wife of 64 years, Grace, at his side.

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SUMMER CAMPS SAMPLER 2010

NOTE: With so many Summer Camps offered in our area, we selected those located between theBoca Raton Inlet and the Port of Palm Beach. We kept our listing east of I-95. Not all Summer Camp schedules have been set. Please c

By Antigone Barton

Gulf Stream — Charles R. Carden flew around the country as an airline pilot and immersed himself in history, reading whatever accounts of centuries past he
could find.

But mostly, the Gulf Stream resident loved his life in Flo

By C.B. Hanif

The last Monday in May is the unofficial beginning of summer. It’s also a day when Americans visit cemeteries, gather for parades and picnics, or watch the
National Memorial Day Concert at the U.S. Capitol.

Most important, folks ref

Take this trivia test (see answers below):

1. Jim Davis first attempted to syndicate a comic strip featuring:

bugs

horses

rabbits

2. Garfield was named in honor of Jim’s:

son

Test your Garfield knowledge with our quiz

Raise your hand if you cruised I-95 back in the late 1980s with a goofy, orange tabby stuffed animal suction-cupped to your car window. It’s OK; I’m raising my hand,
too.

America’s connection to Garfie