Mary Kate Leming's Blog Posts Tagged 'anniversary' (13)

Students and staff of Gulf Stream School pose for a group photo to commemorate the school’s 75th anniversary and to celebrate the groundbreaking of the new Crocker Pavilion.  The school is expanding to better meet the classroom needs of the school.

Jerry…

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While the beauty salon is still there, the Town Hall has replaced the food store at the south end of town.  1954 File photo courtesy Joan Nichols

By Tim O’Meilia

    

    Briny Breezes celebrated its 50th…

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Mia Matthews sings to the crowd at  ‘A Heart Full of Love’ benefit at The Plaza Theatre in Manalapan. The performance was a musical celebration of the Plaza Theatre’s first year to benefit the theater and the American Cancer Society. Photo by Tim Stepien/The Coastal…

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The library groundbreaking on Southeast Fourth Avenue in 1949.

By Ron Hayes



    On April 11, 1913, the Ladies Improvement Association of Delray gathered in their clubhouse at 419 E. Atlantic Ave.

    The 40…

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ABOVE: Guests can opt to have a massage by the waterfall at the pool.

By Mary Thurwachter

    

A decade has passed since Michael and Cheryl Crane scooped up a pair of plain-Jane 1950s apartment buildings and transformed them into a…

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Ora Sorensen created this year’s Delray Affair poster (left) and drew inspiration from the festival’s origins as South Florida’s Gladioli Festival and Fair.

By Mary Jane Fine



To say that the Delray Affair grew…

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Rich Draper, co-owner of the Ice Cream Club, reminisces with Kathy Willoughby at his Manalapan shop. Photo by Jerry Lower

By Ron Hayes

    Here’s the big scoop.

    Thirty years ago, two former fraternity brothers from the…

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When Plaza del Mar in Manalapan celebrated its 30th anniversary with a series of events that included fashion shows and musical performances, organizers turned to local chalk artist Jennifer Chapparo to create a vintage postcard effect on the grounds of the shopping center.…

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By Tim Pallesen



Catholics were few in number when the Delray Beach Catholic Women’s Club started the first parish.

St. Vincent Ferrer Church celebrated its first Mass at the old Delray Theatre in 1941.

Today, the region from Boynton Beach to Boca Raton has nine Catholic…

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By Tim O’Meilia



    If it weren’t for Sputnik, the South Florida Science Museum might still be a patch of cabbage palms in the middle of Dreher Park in West Palm Beach.

    The Russian satellite — mankind’s first trip beyond our atmosphere — touched off the space race with the U.S. in the late 1950s to… Continue

Stephen Waldman (left), Susan Buchanan (Co-founder of the Tomorrow Connection), Janis Andrews and Jamie Andrews and Nora Rosensweig attend the April 16 event in honor of the museum’s 10th… Continue

Ocean Ridge Town Clerk Karen Hancsak. Photo by Ocean Ridge Police Chief Chris Yannuzzi



By Tim O’Meilia



From the outside, Ocean Ridge is a sleepy, seaside town with a Cape Dutch-style Town Hall overlooking a picturesque beachside park and handsome homes… Continue

Twenty-five years ago, my boyfriend asked me to marry him. We were at the beach near where we were renting in the county pocket. I said yes and we were married a few months later in Boca Raton. On New Year’s Eve.

We honeymooned in the Bahamas, then returned and celebrated with friends and family at the Seagate Club in Delray Beach. We kept it small and we kept it local.

It hasn’t always been a breeze. We’ve been through job changes, health issues and far more funerals than baby… Continue