OCEAN RIDGE — When residents of the Ocean Ridge Yacht Club needed advice on insurance, Mickey Metras was the man to ask.
A retired insurance agent from South Hadley, Mass., Michael W. Metras died Nov. 1. He was 66, and had been a resident of the comm
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By Ron Hayes
DELRAY BEACH — Russell “R.C.” Croft, who led the city’s Police Department for more than 30 years, died Nov. 14 in High Springs after a brief illness. He was 93.
“He drove until three weeks before his death,” said his son, Kenneth. “He w
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By Ron Hayes
DELRAY BEACH — The land was worthless, after all.
No roads, no houses, impractical for farming.
Plagued by mosquitoes and cut off from the mainland.
Nothing but sand and bugs.
And so, in 1899, three women donated a mile of beachfront pr
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MANALAPAN — Albert C. Ebert's family have long told the story of his very first business venture.
With the Great Depression still gripping America, the 3-year-old entrepreneur used to dig up clumps of grass from the neighbors' lawns in his native Chi
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By Antigone Barton
OCEAN RIDGE — The scruffy oceanfront patch of land near the town’s southern border stands as proof that one governing entity’s trash can be another’s treasure.
Left fallow by current owner Palm Beach County, the spot could serve a
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By Hector Florin
Mayor Rita Ellis announced that she will not be seeking re-election in March, citing another round of reconstructive surgery to heal her right foot injured at a city event in April. Ellis was elected to the commission in 2005 and wo
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Delray Beach commissioners agreed on Nov. 18 to install cameras at city traffic lights with the purpose of catching red-light runners. Penalties will cost drivers $125, but no points on a driver’s license. Neither the date nor the locations where the
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By Hector Florin
Commissioners agreed on Nov. 18 to allow the Delray Beach Yacht Club building to reopen. Closed in February 2006, the club’s location on MacFarlane Drive east of the Intracoastal Waterway has been eyed for redevelopment, which has s
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By Hector Florin
The six-year saga over the tree house on the property of the historic Fontaine Fox home on North Ocean Boulevard might finally be over. Property owner and mansion builder Frank McKinney said he will move the tree house out of the Fo
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By Hector Florin
The Delray Beach Marriott plans to expand its 271-room hotel with 36 additional suites in two new buildings, as well as add space for shops and a new kitchen for banquets, and expand its restaurant space and pool deck. City commissi
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By Antigone Barton
LANTANA — A precarious structure in front of a condominium to the north, a rush to build when supplies are scarce, and a drill-resisting bed of cement-like sand are among the challenges this town faces in building a wall to save i
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By Ron Hayes
Sometimes there are towns before there are town halls.
Ocean Ridge was incorporated — as Boynton Beach — in 1931. But its first Town Hall wasn’t built until 1937.
As Gail Adams Aaskov recalls in The History of Ocean Ridge, the first tow
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By Antigone Barton
GULF STREAM — Calm had come to the southern end of Boynton Beach since the raucous strip club across the street had finally closed, and Gulf Stream’s Place Au Soleil residents eagerly awaited the shops and trolley stop that city o
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OCEAN RIDGE — The best beaches for people can be the most treacherous terrain for newly hatched turtles searching for the sea, environmental analysts say.
That is one explanation for preliminary data showing that 1,784 sea turtles hatched in Ocean Ri
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By Ron Hayes
OCEAN RIDGE — When residents gathered for their annual Light The Lights celebration Dec. 5, those long strings of twinkling white bulbs didn’t brighten only the holiday season. They also shone on a beautiful new Town Hall and a new chap
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Delray Beach resident Kari Shipley can always be found doing something for others. Whether making a special dinner for a friend who is going through chemotherapy, or finding volunteers for myriad local events, she can always be counted on for much-ne
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How wide and how deep?
Options for changing the Boynton Inlet:
Alternative 1: Same width but 5 feet deeper. Estimated cost: $2.2 million.
Alternative 2: Same width but 10 feet deeper. Cost: $3.1 million.
Alternative 3: 50 feet wider and 10 feet d
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By Thomas R. Collins
Since it was built in 1927, the Boynton Inlet has seen regular nips and tucks and tweaks, with changes to its jetties and a system installed for shifting sand to the sand-needy south end.
Time for an all-out overhaul, some local
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This cookie has great legend behind it, linking it to a Revolutionary War veteran in Marblehead, Mass. The story and recipe I got come from the cookbook, America’s Best Lost Recipes. They write that Black Joe Brown, a freed slave, and Aunt Cresse ope
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