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he gets up at the crack of dawn and works every day — come rain, shine or hurricane.
His neighbors call him the Turtle Man, because he walks the five-eighths-mi
Here’s some turtle low-down, according to Robert Schonfeld:
The sun rising over the Atlantic warms the sand and sparkles off the ocean, making a beautiful image framed by the sliders in Jackie Balestrieri’s bedroom window.
The 8-year-old is oblivious to the perfect beach day developin
By Emily J. Minor
DELRAY BEACH — Scott
Ellington, a Florida native who grew up in Panama City and always loved the
water, died in July after a battle with a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
He was 66.
Ellington,
who lived in coastal Delray Bea
By Greg Stepanich
Beginning with this coming season, the Boca Raton Museum of Art will mark its 10thanniversary at its lovely building in Mizner Park.
It moved there in January 2001 after having been in a small space on Palmetto ParkRoad since 19
Hurricanes can put the hurry in you. When Hurricane Andrew took aim on South Florida in1992, I stood inside my bathtub with my roommate and three puzzled cats. Living just a mile from the ocean in Lantana, we waited for the Category 5 storm to str
DELRAY BEACH — Dr. Peter T. Janulis struggled with his health recently, spending the last four and a half months in and out of Bethesda Memorial Hospital. He and
his wife, Lyn, knew his heart condition was very serious, but he h
Picturesque outside and serene within, the First Church of Christ, Scientist sanctuary almost belies its amazing journey from an Air Force base in Boca Raton to its
200 SE Seventh Ave. home in Delray Beach. The January 1949 move was a
By Tim O’Meilia
Manalapan Mayor Tom Gerrard resigned abruptly Wednesday, delivering a five-sentence resignation letter to town hall just before 5 p.m.
“Pressing family issues require that I spend extended amounts of time away from the town and the
It's here folks... in less than twelve hours, after the stroke of midnight, it's time to go a- hunting! With the crowd of divers, boats and measuring tape things can get crazy quick. Since there were four deaths last year, it's always a good idea to
By Hap Erstein
Ask Nancy Barnett, managing director of the award-winning Florida Stage, what she will miss about the
Manalapan playhouse now that the company is leaving and she mentions the baby cr
On a hot summer morning, the temperatures already topping the 80-degree mark at a little after 9 o’clock, key members of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 54 have reported for duty.
Happily.
They’ve checked the boat from b
By Antigone Barton
A break in the current that could carry oil from BP’s exploded Deepwater Horizon site from the Gulf of Mexico to these shores has added uncertainty to local response preparations.
But a plan for training that will enable local
“On this side of the bridge, people wave with all five fingers.”
I laughed out loud when Ocean Ridge Police Chief Chris Yannuzzi said this to helpexplain why his department was better suited to provide protection to Briny Breezes at its June 24 tow
Maybe it’s because she was a reading teacher and librarian “in another life.”
Perhaps it’s because she wanted to give back to her small hometown of five
years.
Whatever the reasons, when Joan Bernstein was asked to lead a fundraising drive
to updat
A twin-engine Cessna plane that hit the new Ocean Ridge Town Hall in July 2008crashed because of a partial loss of engine power due to fuel starvation, according to a National Transportation Safety Board report in June.
Contributing to the crash, t
By Thom Smith
Heads turned. Hands waved. Horns honked.
Motorists and pedestrians from Sebastian to Boca Raton had no trouble recognizing thefamiliar cyclist during the first week of June. Steve Weagle was at it again, biking north to south to rai
By Margie Plunkett
Residents of this usually quiet coastal area have lately raised an assertive voice on two separate issues, urging northern neighbor Gulf Stream to annex them and objecting to the latest development of the Sea Horse condominium
By Margie Plunkett
The Ocean Ridge Police Department will begin patrolling Briny Breezes in October after winning council’s unanimous support with last-minute contract concessions in its competition with current provider Boynton Beach Police Depar
