All Blog Posts Tagged 'manalapan' (156)

Judges Aldon James and Bruce Sutka had a tough time selecting the most creative hats among the 140 worn by guests of the Armory Art Center benefit, finally picking seven winners. The event raised $54,000 for the center’s programs. Photo: Daphne Fessler (left)…

Honoring her successful and philanthropic father, George Rothman (who regularly swam miles each day well into his 80s),    Doris Rothman Browning of Tequesta and Carson City, Nev., has given $1 million to construct the Mandel JCC aquatics center in Palm Beach Gardens in her father’s…

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami has begun an investigation of allegations by a Manalapan resident that the town’s Police Department engages in racial profiling.

Resident Kersen De Jong first filed a formal complaint with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement in December. The FDLE said it lacked jurisdiction and referred the complaint to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Tallahassee.

The case has since been transferred to the U.S. Attorney’s Miami office.

Manalapan Police…

Town voters, the few who did vote, overwhelmingly approved a charter change imposing term limits on the mayor and commissioners by a 52-14 margin.

    Elected officials can serve a maximum of three consecutive two-year terms as either mayor or commissioner, or four consecutive two-year terms in a combination of commission and mayoral posts. The change affects those currently in office.

    Only 18.4 percent of the town’s voters cast ballots, including five by absentee ballot. The…

Manalapan Town Clerk Lisa Petersen administers the oath of office to Commissioner-Elect Chauncey Johnstone (left), Mayor-Elect David Cheifetz, Commisioner Tom Thornton and Commissioner-Elect Peter Isaac in the Commission Chambers.…

The Plate: Gazpacho

The Place: John G’s, Plaza del Mar, 264 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan. Info: 585-9860 or john-gs.com. Note: John G’s is cash only; no credit cards.

The Price: $4.50 for a cup, $6.75 for a crock

The Skinny:…

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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…

A crowd gathers to mark the dedication of Tranquility Park in honor of longtime Manalapan resident Phyllis DeStefano. The park includes a gazebo, a walking path and a dog fountain.…

By Tim O’Meilia

    

More than two years after collective bargaining began, the seaside towns of Manalapan and South Palm Beach signed three-year agreements with their unionized police departments in January.

    While similar in length and many other details, the contracts differ vastly in wages.

    Manalapan’s eight union members will receive 7 percent pay raises retroactive to Oct. 1, 2011, and another 3 percent retroactive to Oct. 1, 2012. They’ll…

Sophia Isaac is head of volunteers at the J. Turner Moore Memorial Library in Manalapan. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

By Christine Davis



What do super-organized volunteers get? More work! But…

This aerial view from a postcard shows La Coquille in the 1960s or ’70s. To the right is the intersection of A1A and Ocean Avenue.

Our private clubs: An occasional…

 By Tim O’Meilia



A 20-year Manalapan resident has filed a complaint with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, claiming that the town’s police force engages in racial profiling.

    In a Dec. 27 two-page letter to FDLE’s top official, Kersen de Jong said the police chief and an officer had both told him in separate conversations that 1,400 traffic stops made by Manalapan officers in 2011 were designed to keep potential troublemakers out of town.

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    A walk along Manalapan’s beachfront is a dramatic illustration of the adage, “a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.”

    Towering steel seawalls riddled with huge, rusted, Swiss cheese-like holes lay bowed seaward before eroded pits where lawns, patios and pools once stood. Where one of these failed seawalls connects with another of newer construction, the strain of the connection is obvious: In some cases it forced the collapse of the neighboring wall.

    In the…

Manalapan property owners are working together to fix their failing seawalls. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

By Tim O’Meilia



    While oceanfront residents scramble for permits to rebuild their collapsed seawalls, the…

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…

By Tim O’Meilia



    Before Manalapan Commissioner Howard Roder could make a motion to fire Town Manager Linda Stumpf, the other commissioners quickly gave her a 5-1 vote of confidence Dec. 18.

    “I want to consider other candidates for the position of town manager,” Roder said, less than 24 hours after emailing his complaints about Stumpf to other commissioners.

Roder had little chance to enumerate his complaints about Stumpf before Commissioner Louis…

By Tim O’Meilia

    

Kathy Clark had been a police dispatcher for the Boca Raton Police Department for 18 years and was taking college courses to become a paralegal when her dad asked her for help.

Could she fill in as a dispatcher in Manalapan? Her father was Manalapan…

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