By Margie Plunkett
The booming no-see-um population is apparently happy — and that means Ocean Ridge residents are not.
Despite the budgeted spraying to control the nearly invisible, biting pests, residents donned their “Don’t Bug Me” T-shirts an
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By Rich Pollack
Every now and then, Lori Berman forgets the red Tesla Roadster she’s driving is not a typical set of wheels.
She’s reminded often, however, especially when someone in the car next to her at a stoplight pulls out a cell phone to gra
By Steve Plunkett
Manalapan is once again looking at whether to put electric, cable and telephone linesunderground on the Point.
Mayor Kelly Gottlieb told commissioners she had learned that Gulf Stream was planningto bury its lines for about $16,
By Tim Norris
Frankie isn’t talking. He’s engaged, at the moment, with a jalapeño pepper, which he is bolting down in large bits.
Anthony isn’t talking, either. He’s knuckle-deep in a pizza dough, rolling and tossing it, layering it with tomato
By Emily J. Minor
Charity work might seem daunting if you’ve never done it. All those phone calls. All that check writing. All that traipsing around town for corporate sponsors.All that time.
But a growing group of influential women who call thems
By Margie Plunkett
The retreat property owned by the Catholic Cenacle Sisters will return to a residential land use after a deal to build a luxury resort on the Intracoastal property fell apart.
Council members voted Oct. 28 to restore the original
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An article about the Storybook House on Hypoluxo Island that appeared in the December issue misstated the date that the first bridge to the island was built. The first wooden bridge was constructed in 1925.
In a photo appearing with the s
By C.B. Hanif
Deborah Lee Prescott is a Christian, who teaches at Palm Beach Atlantic University, a Christian college, but whose passion is to study the memoirs and autobiographies of Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
From The Diary of Anne Frank
By Mary Jane Fine
From the outset, it was clear that FeeBee possessed star quality, a certain je ne sais quoi that set her apart from all the rest. She had vitality, drive, oodles of personality. And not even Dakota Fanning debuted at so tender a
By Tim Norris
Oct. 3, Sunday, 10 a.m.: It was quiet in the Van Egmond home at the end of Coconut Lane in Ocean Ridge.Too quiet.
Philip Van Egmond and his wife, Gina, just back from a trip to Pittsburgh, knew the minute they walked in and looBy Steve Plunkett
The town of Gulf Stream is “regretful’’ it wasn’t able to stop a Walmart from beingbuilt across the street in Boynton Beach the way homeowners in Delray Beach apparently were, its town manager says.
“We’re still trying to apply p
Chief Craig Hartmann assured them other towns use volunteers as a receptionis
The old Highland Beach fire truck was used in a dramatic rescue at the Toscana condos.
Photo courtesy of Delray Beach Fire-Rescue
Photo courtesy of Delray Beach Fire-Rescue
By Steve Plunkett
It’s in the shop a lot, and repair bills are mounting. It’s not easy to drive in tight places. And eve
By Mary Jane Fine
Patrick McGlamery wasn’t nicknamed Squid for nothing. A water-baby who learned to swim at three months, he surprised no one when he dived into life guarding just out
of high school. He joined Boca Raton’s Ocean Rescue Departme
New signs that warn boaters of speed limits and note the possible presence of manatees in the Intracoastal Waterway could be months away from being installed.
The Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission has plans for several
By Tim O’Meilia
Picture a neighborhood agitator. A troublemaker. An interloper. Now imagine a white-haired thoracic surgeon dressed in his croquet whites — cotton Bermuda shorts and polo-style shirt — propping a croquet mallet on his shoulder at a jBy Scott Simmons
With Betty Grinnan, her voice says it all.
It is at once authoritative and humorous. Focused, but sweetened with the honeyed accent of her native Virginia.
And Grinnan uses that voice to get things done.
As a member of the Friends of th
Another season is upon us, and that’s cause for celebration.
As writer Hap Erstein underscores in his report on the state of the arts in eastern Boca Raton and Highland Beach, our cultural leaders are cautiously optimistic in these times of econom
By Margie Plunkett
The direction Boca Raton council gave its city manager on where to locate the new library: Two blocks north from the current building at the former Causeway Lumber site.
The council favored the new site 3 to 1, and made its wishe
