By Tim O’Meilia
The shadow of a proposed 10-story hotel — rejected by a single vote by the South Palm Beach Town Council in October — continues to darken town politics.
Urged by one of the owners of the Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn, the council voted 3
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By Thomas R. Collins
A debate over east vs. west — and where the City Hall and police station belong — has erupted in Boynton Beach, fraught with questions over the identity of the city, biting exchanges between city commissioners and impassioned ple
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By C.B. Hanif
How typical of Dr. Theodore “Ted” Bush: His church congregation was celebrating him. But he was celebrating them.
That would be the First Presbyterian Church of Delray Beach, whose members assemble at a historic site a block from the o
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By Nirvi Shah
A two-year survey of lighting violations along Palm Beach County’s coast found just about what sea turtle protectors expected: More than 40 percent of the properties on the beach have lights that could lead hatchlings astray.
The findi
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By Margie Plunkett
The Delray Beach Library is commemoratining its 96th year at a December meeting and celebrating four years at the current location in January with its annual Laugh with the Library fundraiser.
Both employees forced to hand over free ice cream to an insistent Delray Beach police officer last April have since moved on to other professions, a co-owner of the shop said.
One employee is now in the medical profession and the other — in an ironic
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By Mary Thurwachter
Christmas came early in Lantana, where officials received word on Nov. 20 that the town’s post office will stay in business, after all. The branch at 201 West Ocean Avenue was taken off the list of 241 post offices facing possib
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By Tim O’Meilia
Thirty-three years ago Bonnie Fischer found the dream retirement home — an affordable first-floor oceanfront condominium apartment at Imperial House with a view of a beach several hundred feet wide.
In mid-November, an angry north wi
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Lantana’s Nature Preserve is preparing for thirsty runners at the Dec. 6 Palm Beach Marathon, putting together the only “wacky” water station in Lantana, according to Ilona Balfour, a director for the preserve. The station will be located on Ocean Av
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By Margie Plunkett
Lantana council members took a hard stand against helping the neighboring Imperial House condominium building at taxpayers’ expense and said it would charge $213,500 to allow the co-op to stage equipment to fix its rapidly deterio
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Twelve tiny treasures I was challenged to find.
In shops and boutiques — even online.
So I hunted and searched
Our coastal communities.
From Delray to Lake Worth.
I sought with impunity
Objects diminutive,
Either in price or in size,
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By Jan Norris
It can be confusing to choose a bottle of wine to take to someone else’s home — there’s the unknown menus and the host’s taste to consider.
We went to three area wine experts to get their opinions on wines that are suitable for takin
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By Ron Hayes
There’s a world of titles to choose from when deciding which children’s books to give this holiday season — and some of them were written close to home, by local neighbors.
Here’s a sampling set in Palm Beach County and written by Palm
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By Ron Hayes
O Tannenbaum! O Tannenbaum!
We miss you, Tabloid Tannenbaum!
Has it really been 20 years since all those lights went dark for the last time on The World’s Tallest Christmas Tree?
Those 16,000 twinkling lights?
Or was it 20,000 lights?
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Blame it on her genes, said Manalapan resident Bev Myers, whose artwork is featured at the town of South Palm Beach’s first art show of the season. It’s because of her father that she’s an artist.
“My father was a very creative individual. He was a
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Photos from Bill Dunn's memorial
By Ron Hayes
Bill Dunn must have had six or seven different addresses during his 25 years in the county pocket. But mostly he lived on the beach.
He slept at home, but he lived on the beach. And when he died, famil
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By Emily J. Minor
BRINY BREEZES — Ruth Littlefield, a longtime Briny Breezes resident who moved here in the 1950s and nurtured a reputation for her generosity, artistic talent and getting herself in and out of mostly hilarious jams, has died at age
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BRINY BREEZES — Frederick “Pete” Schoeni, a resident of Beloit, Ohio, and Briny Breezes passed away on Nov. 11 in Ohio. He was 85 years old.
“His motto in life was, whatever you do, you have a responsibility to do your best,” said his daughter Bonni
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Matilda Miller Young with her husband, Willard, near the Seagate Condominium in 1970.
By Mary Katherine Stump
DELRAY BEACH — Matilda Miller Young, a resident of Delray Beach, passed away on Oct. 19 at the age of 103.
“She was determined to live ’ti
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By Emily J. Minor
GULF STREAM — Mary Howard Hudgins, a longtime Gulf Stream resident who, in her younger years, competed in many sports long before that was considered mainstream for women, has died. She was 91.
For many years, Mrs. Hudgins and her
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