In other business, Mayor Martin Millar’s well-publicized trip to Rachel’s, his request for a police ride home and his conduct during a rowdy budget hearing last month have galvanized the opinions of townspeople, based on comments at the Sept. 22 meet
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By Tim O’Meilia
Even though the 2010 budget year is just beginning (Oct. 1), town councilmen agreed to chop more than $1 million out of the 2011 budget. Yet it won’t save South Palm Beach residents any money. The council agreed unanimously Sept. 22 t
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Brinyite Terry Kline fondly recalls the “summer of giving,” with her neighbor, Celene “Candy” Alexandra. “I gave her some tomatoes one day, and the next day she shows up at my door with peaches and pears. As soon as you give her one
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By Thomas R. Collins
Mayor Tom Gerrard lives just seven houses down from where Tom Petters used to live. And as mayor, he probably comes into contact with more people than just about anyone else in town.
But Gerrard said he never heard of, let alone
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By Stephanie Slater
Seconds.
That’s how long it takes for someone to steal your purse or wallet.
Days, months, years.
That’s how long you’ll be dealing with creditors and banks when the thieves use your credit cards or steal your identity.
It all beg
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By Thom Smith
Signs of the times. Signs because of the times. Signs in spite of the times.
Despite all the economic doom speak, Delray maintains its All-American City attitude.
Oh sure, shops, restaurants and businesses are closing, but it seems tha
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By Nirvi Shah
The future of the old Boynton Beach high school could be in city residents’ hands next March, when voters will decide whether to spend money on its restoration.
Boynton Mayor Jerry Taylor said the vote will finally settle the issue of
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By Margie Plunkett
Local lawmakers may wish they could forget this 2009/10 budget-crunching season, but in September they put their stamps of approval on financial plans that will be a constant reminder for the next year.
For many residents, the resu
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By Margie Plunkett
Lantana Town Council gave its final nod to a zoning change for the Cenacle property on the Intracoastal — to commercial from residential —though it won’t become effective until after site plan approval.
The Cenacle sought land-use
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By Margie Plunkett
The moon flexed its strength in September, pulling tides a half foot to a foot-and-a-half higher as it swung through its perigee.
The lunar perigee, when the moon’s orbit takes it closest to the Earth, occurred near the time of the
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By Nirvi Shah
It was a huge victory last year for coral reef preservationists when the National Marine Fisheries Service designated a swath of the Florida coast as a protected area for two species of coral.
But discovery of one species of threatened
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By Margie Plunkett
Boaters once clamored for a spot in Delray Beach’s marina, but the ebbing economy has left nearly half its slips vacant and forced the city to drop rates to entice new business.
Acknowledging increasing competition among area marin
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By Thomas R. Collins
Another deal might have turned to static for perennially for-sale WXEL.
Nine months after the Palm Beach County School District expressed an interest in buying the public radio and TV stations from Barry University, the School B
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Obituary
PAULINE DEIBERT MARQUIS
Pauline 'Polly' Deibert Marquis, originally from Palmerton, PA and Greenwich, CT, died on her 104th birthday. She was the daughter of Franklin W. and Lydia Gregory Deibert, and the sister of Jonathan Deibert. Polly
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Obituary
MATTHEW DUNCAN
By Ron Hayes
BRINY BREEZES — When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Matthew Duncan immediately quit his job at the Buick plant in Flint, Mich., and joined the Marines.
He was 20 then, and embarking on a li
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By C. B. Hanif
Angeleta Gray says she will “continue to meet with people, listen to their views and bring all the players to the table. I think that will be instrumental in helping us to continue to move forward.”
There’s agreement that her fellow
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By Margie Plunkett
The county started reef construction off the Ocean Ridge coast this summer, required to restore the natural reef covered by beach renourishment.
The mitigation reef, within an area of about 16 acres, will “get covered in critters
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By C.B. Hanif
Sundown on Friday, Sept.18 marked the beginning of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year.
The next day, others began observing Eid-ul-Fitr, marking the completion of Ramadan, the Muslim month of rededication.
Still others, including Christ
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By Arden Moore
Lacking thumbs makes it tricky for dogs to use utensils, but that shouldn’t stop them from displaying good manners when dining out with their people. In fact, inviting dogs to eateries is proving to be a smart strategy in these lean
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Mary Alice Pugh
By Ron Hayes
DELRAY BEACH — Mary Alice Pugh’s life was all about finding new horizons.
Born Mary Alice Selby on Jan. 14, 1944, in Martins Ferry, Ohio, she earned a bachelor’s degree in laboratory medicine at West Virginia
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