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
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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
Aaron Strippel keeps an eagle eye out for changes in the landscape at First Presbyterian Church of Delray Beach. As head custodian, he scoots around on agolf cart each morning making sure the grounds are in tiptop condition.
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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
2009-10 tax rate: $2.87 per $1,000 of taxable value
Change in property value: 5.8 percent decrease
Total Budget (Operating and Capital): $2.6 million
Total proposed cuts/savings: More revenue sharing
By Margie Plunkett
The Delray Beach City Commission’s decision to explore turning to the Palm BeachCounty Sheriff’s Office for police protection was dropped as quickly as it was launched early last month, deflated after the panel learned that see
Delray Beach has set a course to boost the price of storing a sailboat on the beach.
Commissioners passed an ordinance on first reading Aug. 17 to increase the annual fee forstoring a sailboat on the municipal beach to $250 plus sales tax, up fro
2009-10 tax rate: $7.19 per $1,000 taxable value
Change in property value: 12.7 percent decrease
Initial Budget Target (Operating and Capital): $100.1 million, as per Aug. 3.
Total proposed cuts/savi
By Thom Smith
Colonel Sanders was the chicken king, but Michelle Bernstein may be the new queen, andif enough of her subjects seek an audience, it could be good news for the troubled Omphoy Resort just north of the Lake Worth bridge.
The rag
By Angie Francalancia
Leaders in the coastal communities were rejoicing over the recent news thatcontroversial Senate Bill 360 had been declared unconstitutional — a bill they believed would have opened the door to rampant coastal development and
By Tim O’Meilia
Basil Diamond, the man who led the battle to revamp Manalapan’s voting system eightyears ago, is back on the Town Commission. But he isn’t the mayor, as many had hoped.
Instead, commissioners chose Vice Mayor Kelly Gottlieb, who wa
