By Thom Smith
Brace yourselves. It’s April, but it seems like the season is just starting.
Savor the Avenue’s long table has barely been cleared, the last reel is stillspinning at the Delray Beach Film Festival, and already the aroma of conch
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By Margie Plunkett
Five more sets of crosswalk signs designed to safeguard pedestrians and educatedrivers will be installed on A1A after a state study deemed test signs near Atlantic Avenue effective.
The Florida Department of Transportation g
By Dianna Smith
Local officials are continuing to comb the seas and beaches for Haitians fleeingtheir devastated country.
Though no refugees have been spotted in Palm Beach County since January’s deadlyearthquake in Haiti, four Haitian nationals
By Tim O’Meilia
The South Palm Beach Town Council is going green. Not environmentally speaking, butexperience-wise.
Two new council members, Stella Jordan and Susan Lillybeck, were sworn at the March23 Town Council meeting by U. S. District
By Margie Plunkett and Mary Kate Leming
McKinley Park on Hypoluxo Island has been a meeting ground, a community “piazza” that’s brought parents and children together over the years to bond and play. A main
draw for families, the playground equipm
Incumbent Robert Evans (left), who ran unopposed, is joined by new commissioners Howard Roder and Louis DeStefano. In Manalapan, 209 voters of a total of 353 registered voters, or 59.2 percent turned out for the March elections. Photo by Jerry Low
The Beach Property Owners Association is taking the next step toward a long-termplan for the beachfront, after meeting March 24 with city leaders, city employees and residents.
At its April 1 board meeting, the association intended to set a date t
By Tim O’Meilia
South Florida whistled past the hurricane graveyard last summer and nary a stormhowled in return. Only three hurricanes formed last year and none sent anyone scurrying to Home Depot for plywood.
Don’t expect to sneak by aga
By Margie Plunkett
Herons, cranes, spoonbills, terns, pelicans and even red hawks make Ocean Ridge theirhome. Now, the town is moving toward becoming a bird sanctuary to protect them.
The town was exploring and preparing an ordinance it expects
By Margie Plunkett
Burying Gulf Stream’s overhead power lines would cost roughly $4.6 million and entailsix months of pre-construction work and six to eight months of construction, according to a consultant hired to study the feasibility of the
By Margie Plunkett
Imagine stopping by an automated stand to rent a bicycle and being able to drop it offat a station in another part of town. The board formerly known as the Green Task Force has this on the roster of projects it wants to make re
By Christine Davis
Sandra Morrison of Ocean Ridge found a treasure trove of watercolors in Norman Scofield’s garage. Landscapes of all descriptions delightfully alive with
dynamic lines and beautiful colors: tropical island scenes, snow and old bar
By Kelly Wolfe
When in doubt, walk right up to the guy in the kilt. It makes life more interesting. And in this case,it’s the best way to find the guy running things.
Capt. John Ficsher of the Palm Beach County Fire Rescue Pipe and Drum Band, has spBy Jan Norris
The locavore movement — that group that espouses eating foods produced closer to home — is catching on, with the benefits to farmers, cooks and the environment. Reducing the travel time between harvest and market means fresher and moreIf you want to learn first hand about Samuel Ogren Sr. [1899-1988], known as the “father of Delray Beach architecture,” you have a chance over the next two
months to come look at his work and hear about him from people, who study h
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On a recent day, the sun glittered on the Intracoastal water outside JamesGardner’s Ocean Ridge home, where he lives with his wife of 45 years and their
sociable black poodle. It is a comfortable and well-appointed abode, but with
his c
By Emily J. Minor
DELRAY BEACH — Patricia Wade Owen, a Chicago native who joined key socialphilanthropic causes when she was a young college graduate, died March 15 at age 87. She had been in the care of Hospice of Palm Beach County for about t
By Emily J. Minor
OCEAN RIDGE — Mary Ellen Cannon, who raised her six children in Michigan and moved toFlorida in her later years to golf, garden and give more attention to her love for crafting, died in the care of Hospice of Palm Beach County
By Linda Haase
When Amanda Jean got her first Barbie doll, she had no desire to play with it. Her first instinct was to design a new wardrobe for the model-thin fashion icon.
She used any material she could find, including her own clothes, but aft
