Scott Simmons's Blog Posts Tagged 'boca raton' (13)

 

Flossy Keesely lives in Highland Beach with her Yorkie, Schatzi.

Photo by Tim Stepien

By Scott Simmons



The phone doesn’t stop ringing at Flossy Keesely’s Highland Beach home.

Brrrring!…

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By Thomas R. Collins

                  The website’s home page has an aerial shot of the coastline, with turquoise waters washing over the sand and sunbathers dotting the beach.

                  Delray Beach, says the site recently created by the city’s Chamber of Commerce and its Community Redevelopment Agency to…

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By Steve Plunkett



Boca Raton residents are mounting another assault in their campaign to ensure that Ocean Strand becomes a park.

A new group, Keep Your Boca Beaches Public, is circulating petitions to place an ordinance and a charter amendment targeting the coastal parcel on the March ballot.

 “We started collecting signatures aggressively this weekend, and I have to say that we have hundreds of them already,’’ Martin Siml told City Council members at a Dec. 13 workshop. “It… Continue

 

Customers buy gold chips and coins from the

Gold-to-Go vending machine at Boca Raton’s

Town Center. Photo provided

 

By Thom Smith

 

Like bees to honey, shoppers are converging on a new hive at…

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Betty-Jane Lee, a 71-year member of the Daughters

of the American Revolution, sips tea during

a recent meeting of the Estahakee Chapter at the

Highland Beach Holiday Inn. Photos by Tim Stepien…

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The event committee for the Friends of the Boca Raton Museum of

Art’s Holiday Champagne Reception included Ann Conte (left),

Barbara Scott, Robin May, Nancy Wright and Marjory Bitson.

The event featured a variety of items…

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Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation hosted a kick-off reception for its 49th annual ball at Bogart’s.

The reception honored the members of the Medical Staff Executive Committee,…

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By Ron Hayes



BOCA RATON — A former model, accomplished bridge player and 30-year resident of Boca Raton, Dona Culhane, died Nov. 18 after a lengthy illness.

She was 82 and lived at the Stratford Arms.

Mrs. Culhane was born Oct. 1, 1928, in Hudson, N.Y.

After graduating from the Barnard School For Girls, a preparatory school in Manhattan, she worked briefly as a fashion model for the Barbizon School, until her marriage to William Culhane on March…

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By Dianna Smith



HIGHLAND BEACH — Ethel Fuog spent many a summer night in her hometown of Chicago, sipping drinks in her daughter’s backyard during one of the many cocktail parties she looked forward to every year.

And though she lived the last 30-plus years in Highland Beach enjoying the sunshine, she often… Continue

By Steve Plunkett



If change is coming to Ocean Strand, it isn’t coming quickly.

At least not quickly enough for the coastal parcel’s neighbors, who have been asking City Council, the Planning and Zoning Board and the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District to protect the undeveloped site from becoming anything but a park.

Penn-Florida Companies proposed a private cabana club in December to complement a luxury hotel in Via Mizner, a $1 billion redevelopment project planned… Continue

I love Palm Beach County.

It’s home to me — from the sweet stench of the Glades to the bracing spray of the ocean and everything in between.

I was born here, grew up on Florida’s west coast, and returned to Palm Beach County to attend Florida Atlantic University.

When I arrived in 1984, the Boca Raton phone book was about an inch and a half thick. It covered all the towns from Boynton Beach through Pompano Beach, with Boca and Highland Beach in the middle.

And The Boca Raton… Continue

The Boca Raton Community Redevelopment Agency voted in August to assume ownership of the Count de Hoernle Amphitheatre at Mizner Park.

The city ended its 99-year lease with the Centre for the Arts at Mizner Park, the nonprofit group that built the amphitheater in 2002 on city land, and will take over the amphitheater’s remaining $588,000 mortgage. The city also will pay off up to $300,000 in debt incurred by the Centre for the Arts for such cultural events as Festival of the Arts Boca.… Continue

By Steve Plunkett



Educational field trips to the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in coastal Boca Raton may continue despite the school district’s budget having no money for them.

In June, Palm Beach County School Superintendent Art Johnson advised Boca Raton City Manager Leif Ahnell that ‘’we will no longer be able to fiscally support our Gumbo Limbo personnel.’’

That didn’t sit well with the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District, which helps operate the nature center in… Continue