If a county pocket resident were choking today, Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue would call Boynton Beach to race to his aid, shaving several minutes off the response time from the county’s nearest station.
Since November 2009, when
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If a county pocket resident were choking today, Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue would call Boynton Beach to race to his aid, shaving several minutes off the response time from the county’s nearest station.
Since November 2009, when
By Steve Plunkett
Nestled among Highland Beach Town Manager Dale Sugerman’s e-mail last July was a message he wasn’t supposed to see: a collection of jokes Town Clerk Beverly Brown forwarded to him by mistake via the town’s official e-mail.
Sugerma
By Steve Plunkett
A 20-year-old man crossing A1A at the Highland Beach Club crosswalk was struck by a car on New Year’s Eve and hospitalized.
Casuarina snowbird Alan Zuniss, 71, told the Florida Highway Patrol his sandal got caught on the car’s bra
By Steve Plunkett
For land that’s lain idle more than 17 years, Ocean Strand swirled into 2011 with a flurry of activity.
• Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District Commissioner Dirk Smith met with the Federation of Boca Raton Homeowner Associat
The Boca Raton Resort & Club as it stand today.
The original Cloister built by Addison Mizner is at right.
Photo courtesy of the Boca Raton Resort & Club
Five things you maybe didn't know about Addison Mizner | Resort timeline
By Deborah S.
Jack Fox has piloted his own planes,
including this Beechcraft Baron, for
more than 50 years. He keeps this plane
at Boca Raton Airport. Photos by Tim Stepien
How do you know Jack Fox?
Coastal residents may know him as president of the Beac
In 1967, Arvida tears down part of the original
Cloister to build the tower. It is the tallest structure
between Tallahassee and Miami at the time.
Photo courtesy of the Boca Raton Resort & Club
1925: Palm Beach architect Addison Mizner arrives
Addison Mizner
Courtesy Boca Raton Historical Society
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
Five things you might not know about Addison Mizner:
1. The Boca connection: Although Mizner is virtually synonymous with Boca Raton, he spent no more than a year in
A holiday visit to his daughter in Phoenix included a surprise Gulf Stream Mayor William F. Koch Jr. will never forget.
Plus, he’ll rarely have to pay for drinks with military friends from now on.
Koch, who in World War II was the bomb
More than one snafu marred the straw poll on Gulf Stream’s underground utility project and the proposed referendum on annexing the county pocket.
A couple dozen straw ballots, including the one to Gulf Stream Civic Association Preside
Our private clubs: An occasional series
By Emily J. Minor
There’s nothing tricky about understanding why the longstanding Little Club in Gulf Stream is called the Little Club.
There’s no Mr. Little who grew up in a little town a little bit down the r
When Joe Santarella left New York for South Florida in 1982, he brought the New York accent along. It’s still here.
“My father was a laborer, and my mother was in retail,” he says. “I was the first or second in my family to attend college.
By Emily J. Minor
About 50 residents packed the Briny Breezes Town Council’s January meeting to listen to a civics lesson on why the town handles its money the way it does.
“Many people don’t understand what we are forced to spend money on,” said Mayo
Manalapan town commissioners raised water and sewer rates, but not before hearing from a handful of unhappy customers.
Josh Nichols, who shares a Hypoluxo townhome with his wife, complained that they were being charged too much for ha
Manalapan is ramping up efforts to breathe new life into flagging Plaza Del Mar.
Daryl Cheifetz, who sits on Manalapan’s Architectural Commission, told town commissioners in December that with this year’s planned closing of the Ocean
Charles Benoit (left) gets a chuckle from comedian Eddie Brill who entertained hundreds Jan. 28 at the Delray Beach Marriott, during the 5th Annual Laugh with the Library fundraiser to benefit the Delray Beach Public Library.
