All Blog Posts Tagged 'lantana' (86)

By Mary Thurwachter



    Lantana officials revealed a conceptual plan to turn a one-acre site on the west side of the Intracoastal Waterway into a passive waterfront park with 31 parking spaces.

    The site, at 106-120 N. Lake Drive, just north of Ocean Avenue, was purchased early…

A temporary lifeguard stand opened in March on Lantana Beach.

    “Town staff built the one on the dune,” said Lantana Town Manager Deborah Manzo. “We are hoping that the town will obtain approval from the state to put a (permanent) stand back on the beach, but we have to go through an…

Lantana council members Malcolm Balfour and Lynn Moorehouse (center) cut a cake as Moorehouse’s wife, Celeste, watches at a council meeting. Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal Star

In Lantana, it only took 284 votes for Hypoluxo…

By Mary Thurwachter

    

Council members in Lantana talked about rescinding the noise variance they approved in January so that contractors, by working at night, could more easily meet their construction deadlines for the Ocean Avenue Bridge.

    Although clearly annoyed when it looked like the contractor’s representative was a no-show at the March 11 meeting, when the topic was up for discussion, the town chose to take no action.

    “They don’t come and…

Municipal Elections

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Delray Beach: Two candidates for mayor | Three candidates vie for commission | …

Election Results: Malcolm Balfour - 284 | Joe Ferrell - 174 | Rosemary Mouring - 80

One council member will be selected for a three-year term to the Group 2 seat previously held by Councilwoman Cindy Austino. Councilman Lynn Moorhouse was re-elected to a fourth term in Group 1 without opposition. If no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote, March 12, a runoff between the top two vote getters…

The Boynton Beach/Lantana Rotary Club has awarded the first scholarship for a student of the United States to attend the May 28-29 Molecular Frontiers Annual Symposium in Stockholm, Sweden at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Destiny Andrews, a certified student…

The Lantana Police Department will be getting two 2013 vehicles this year — a Dodge Charger pursuit car and a Chevy Tahoe 1500.

Total cost for the vehicles is $47,971 — $21,401 for the Dodge, $26,570 for the Tahoe. Another $36,702 will be spent for painting and adding police decals and emergency lights, radio, graphics and video equipment to the cars.

At its Dec. 10 meeting, the Town Council also gave the  thumbs-up for the Police Department to buy a backup generator for $37,650.…

By Tim O’Meilia

    

For the second time in two years, the Manalapan Town Commission rejected bids from outside agencies to handle the town’s police dispatch services.

Both neighboring Ocean Ridge and Lantana submitted proposals well under the town’s $241,600 annual dispatch costs, but Point Manalapan residents called for the dispatch center/gatehouse at the entrance to the point to continue to be manned 24 hours a day.

Hiring guards to man the center would…

80 concrete trucks arrived, mixed and poured on Nov. 3-4, as part of the construction project for the new Ocean Avenue Bridge in Lantana. The bridge is scheduled for completion March 2014, but may be ready as soon as November 2013.  Tim Stepien/The Coastal…

By Mary Thurwachter

    

Taxpayers in Lantana will save about $1 million over the next nine years because the town is refinancing its water and sewer bonds.

    At its Nov. 26 meeting, the Town Council agreed to refinance the bonds with TD Bank for a principal amount not to exceed $4.5 million.

    In 1998, a $9.215 million bond was issued with a 3.6 percent interest rate and had risen to 4.65 percent. The refinanced rate will charge an annual interest of…

Richard and Lillian Goldman relax in the…

By Tim O’Meilia

    

The Manalapan Town Commission’s thoughts of farming out its police dispatch services has drawn interest from three local police departments.

    Representatives of neighboring towns Lantana and Ocean Ridge and nearby Delray Beach all attended a Nov. 15 meeting to hear details about a request for proposal issued by the town.

    The proposal seeks bids on two levels of service: to exclusively handle 911 police dispatch calls and related…

Contractor Steve Varga is cutting hours of commuting each week by boating to work. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

By Ron Hayes



After the Lantana bridge closed for 22 months last March 18, residents…

Several seawalls, pools and yards in Manalapan were seriously damaged by the constant pounding of the surf from Hurricane Sandy and seasonal high tides.  Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

More photos from…

By Tim O’Meilia



    Officials of south county coastal towns fear that signing on to a regional beach management plan now in the works would cost their taxpayers money without guaranteeing any new sand on eroding beaches.

    Several environmental groups think that the plan — designed to streamline obtaining permits and treat regions as a whole instead of individually — will short-circuit their attempts to challenge projects.

    The inlet-to-inlet plan…

By Tim O’Meilia

   

Four things learned from last month’s visit of President Obama and Vice President Biden:

    1. Waiting onlookers and reporters like pizza, ice cream and cinnamon-nut French toast.

    2. Roped-off parking lots mean no parking meter…

By Mary Thurwachter



    Tax rates haven’t been raised in Lantana for 11 years and that won’t change this year.

    Council members set the preliminary tax rate at $3.24 per $1,000 of a home’s assessed value at their July 23 meeting.

    “We’ve been through the worst (of the recession),” Mayor Dave Stewart said, expressing confidence in the town manager’s handling of the budget and adding that the town had sufficient reserves.

    “This is not a good…

Workers from GLF Construction Corp. use a crane to hoist materials while demolishing and rebuilding the Ocean Avenue Bridge in Lantana. Tim Stepien/The Coastal…

By Tim O’Meilia



    It’s the old “good news/bad news” cliché.

    The good news is that the elusive environmental impact study for the perhaps illusory plan to save South Palm Beach’s eroding beach and maintain Lantana’s seawall is being revived.

    The bad news is that the project has been removed from the list of beach projects to be included in the new inlet-to-inlet beach management plan being written by state, county and municipal officials to guide…