By Ron Hayes
OCEAN RIDGE — On Feb. 27, 1945, a B-24 bomber exploded during a bombing run over Leipzig, Germany.
Nose gunner/bombardier Don O’Fee, who normally didn’t wear a parachute, was wearing one that day. He landed
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By C.B. Hanif
A monthly book discussion group at the Delray Beach Public Library has been getting good reviews for addressing engaging topics. The latest theme: “ ‘The Other’ — Other Cultures and How We View Others,” was intriguing.
So when I heard t
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By Arden Moore
These days, with the price of gas gushing skyward and foreclosure signs littering lawns, penny pinching is now in vogue. We need to figure out ways to s-t-r-e-t-c-h our family budgets and that includes spending on pets.
Unless you’re
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Posted by Dee McNamara on December 29, 2009 at 16:00
38 Cities in the County have Election Day on 2nd Day in March.Cities who deviate from the County's General Election Date on 2n Tuesday in March,will have to pay ALL THE COSTS of STAFF, per new accurate Supervisor of ElectionsSusan Bucher. She advises
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Manalapan will hold a workshop on landscaping in swales at 10 a.m. Dec. 15 at Town Hall. Town Attorney Trela White drafted a proposed ordinance after discussions on what vegetation should be allowed in swales. The workshop continues the discussion th
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By Ron Hayes
One day in 2000, a high school freshman from Ocean Ridge decided to volunteer as an “attorney” in the county's Youth Court.
Anthony Arash Arsali would alternately act as both prosecutor and defense “attorney” in determining appropriate
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By Thom Smith
Maria Muldaur, Devon Allman, Cephas & Wiggins, Marcia Ball, John Hammond, John Sebastian. For nearly a decade, appearances by such acts made the Bamboo Room in Lake Worth one of the premier live music venues in the Southeast. But when t
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By Kelly Wolfe
They’d streamed in throughout the morning: deeply tan folks with knitted brows sporting flip flops, shorts, Hawaiian-print shirts and dozens of palm tree insignias — serious beach dwellers. The sign on
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By Margie Plunkett
Golf carts with speeds under 20 mph will be subject to regulations designed to enforce responsible driving, according to a Gulf Stream town ordinance in the works that stops short of requiring operators to have a valid driver’s li
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By Margie Plunkett
Help Wanted: Manalapan town manager.
Manalapan is in the market for a new town manager after Gregory Dunham, who has filled the role for most of this decade, told commissioners at their November meeting he is retiring from municip
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By Margie Plunkett
Election day in Ocean Ridge and Manalapan may find a permanent home on the second Tuesday in March if commissioners in each town follow through on preliminary approvals in November.
Most of the 38 cities in Palm Beach County hold m
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By Nirvi Shah
Loggerhead sea turtles nested in smaller numbers this year than they did 20 years ago, says one international research and advocacy group pushing to change loggerheads’ status from threatened to endangered.
“The data is disappointing b
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In our household, the word November has a unique usage. To us it means sadness, the blues. As in, “I have a bad case of the Novembers.”
It’s been that way for about 10 years now, since a series of losses initiated this annual sense of dread. Through
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As an American and veteran, I am very pleased when condo- and homeowners fly the flag on Veterans Day. However, I am very displeased knowing that some of these owners plant impatiens, over-water their grass so that the roots rot and it has to be repl
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By Christine Davis
The town of South Palm Beach may be small — a short stretch of about five-eighths-mile long, and a sliver less than a city block wide — but it stands gloriously high in its salute (and commitment) to art, music and education.
This
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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.
