By Emily J. Minor
MANALAPAN — Eugenia P.
Strauss, a Michigan girl who left home for the lights and opportunities of
Hollywood when she was just 16 years old, has died after a brief illness. She
was 75.
Mrs.
Strauss lived in Manalapan for about 25
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By Greg Stepanich
Three Palm Beach County musicians got together nearly 20 years ago to found a chambermusic series that would explore the broader reaches of the classical repertory, and this month, the annual four-week series returns to prov
By C.B.Hanif
The blessings are likely to be mutual once again this month when Monsignor TomSkindeleski, of St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church in Delray Beach, leads his ninth annual Knights of Columbus father-and-son contingent in service to ind
By Arden Moore
Irwin Stovroff of Boca Raton is living proof that you’re never too old to make adifference and that you should never underestimate the healing power of dogs.
Stovroff, energetic at 87, first caught my attention when he recent
Phase I plans for ‘4001’ (formerly called Sea Horse Bath Club) have been submitted to the Palm Beach County Planning & Zoning Department by OK Seahorse LLLP. The oceanfront building design (located just north of Gulf Stream) shows five stories facin
T. Clark Appleby of Manalapan crossed the finish line at the Boston Marathon in April to benefit Hanley Center, and addiction treatment and prevention center in West Palm Beach. The 23-year old ran a race time of 3:05:03 and raised more than $1,500
May heralds summer and the newspaper office starts to heat up during the long afternoons. My husband calls it the “sweat pit.” He’s dead set on replacing the
aging, noisy AC units above our doors. He’s o
By Mary Thurwachter
On a sunny afternoon in May, Jestena Boughton and Hilary Roche converse in a long narrow office at the Colony Hotel. Lucy, the beagle-corgi mix Jestena recently
adopted, keeps an eye on things between snoozes.
The women are
By Tim O’Meilia
Palm Beach County officials are pushing ahead with plans for a breakwater-and-groinproject along a 1.3-mile stretch of largely South Palm Beach shoreline despite critical reviews by federal agencies of a similar project along Singer
By Kelly Wolfe
You need an arsenal of adjectives to describe the Dub City Roller Girls.
At first glance, they are a combination of the family tomboy playing dress-up in their cross-dressing uncle’s closet; an action movie where an army of renegade
By Margie Plunkett
The Municipal Beach in Delray Beach would get a new name, pavilion and a sinuoussidewalk under a Beach Property Owners Association master plan that reflects community input from a November workshop.
The BPOA asked Delray Beac
By Margie Plunkett
The official word on estimated property values in Palm Beach County that came out in late May confirmed what many already anticipated as another down year for taxable
property values — and for municipal coffers.
Taxable values fe
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By Antigone Barton
As the black cloud of oil from the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform neared the loop current that brings the Gulf Stream up the Atlantic coast, town managers,
administrators and rescue offici
By Margie Plunkett
Ocean Ridge town commissioners were the arbiters of nature last month, ruling down with the no-see-um, and up with the bird (the feathered variety, that is).
In two s
For two decades, Florida Stage has brightened the cultural landscape far beyond its little corner in Manalapan. Inevitably, the magnitude of the little company has
grown, so its orbit had to expand.
On June 20, the last lines of the
By Thomas R. Collins
Since Boynton Beach brought up the idea of annexing pieces of unincorporated barrierisland land, several residents have made it known that they’d prefer to be part of Gulf Stream instead.
As a result, Gulf Stream town offici
By Margie Plunkett
Mayor Roger Bennett is asking the two police agencies bidding to provide BrinyBreezes protection to forego annual 4 percent increases, a move that delayed a vote at the Town Council’s May meeting.
The town now plans to choose a
By Kelly Wolfe
Loyal WXEL listeners said they were not pleased to learn their favorite public radiostation was sold in April to a Miami classical music station.
“I just think it would be a tremendous loss,” said Marna Hirshhorn of DelrayBeach. “I
