Mary Kate Leming's Blog Posts Tagged 'manalapan' (154)

LEFT: Homeowners, property managers and state coastal officials toured a few properties, including the home of New Age musician Yanni, that had extensive damage.   …

By Tim O’Meilia

    

Manalapan town commissioners verbally skirmished over police criminal statistics, police dispatch services and whether residents and commissioners were burdening the town staff with too many requests.

    In the end — nearly four hours later — nothing changed.

    Commissioners did not follow up on Mayor Basil Diamond’s proposal that commission approval be required for requests by residents and commissioners to the town…

By Christine Davis



In real estate it’s always been about location, but it’s also about positioning — as can be seen by the number of firms opening or consolidating offices in Palm Beach County’s coastal areas. Agents, too, who have changed offices, are settling in before the bustle of Florida’s winter season moves into full swing.

    A flurry of activity centers around Delray Beach. Lang Realty has opened a new office; Fite Shavell & Associates and 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

    

Ten years ago, a gang of four Point Manalapan residents made a federal case out of voting districts in Manalapan, where oceanside residents had half the U.S. census-tallied residents but twice the number of seats on the Town Commission as those on the point.

    Now, Town Commissioner Donald Brennan says that the resulting court-approved redistricting and reapportioning of the Town Commission has flip-flopped the power structure and left…

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 Tim O’Meilia

    

Imagine unmanned drones patrolling the Manalapan shoreline or helium-filled balloons surveilling the beach or infra-red cameras spying north and south after dark along the oceanfront. However fantastic and unlikely — except perhaps the cameras — those are some of the solutions town commissioners learned could be used to combat beach-going trespassers.

    Town commissioners will consider those and more mundane and practical solutions, such as…

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…

Chase Navellier works out on his ‘erg’ rowing machine at his Manalapan home.

Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

By Rich Pollack

    

When Chase Navellier first began rowing during his freshman year…

By Steve Plunkett

    

Proposals to have sheriff’s deputies patrol Manalapan and Ocean Ridge crept ahead in June while a similar offer in Boynton Beach screeched to a halt.

    Boynton Beach commissioners directed city staff June 19 to not move forward with a plan by the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office to provide police services. The proposal would have meant a $5 million savings in each of the first two years while cutting almost a third of the city’s 165 police…

* Ocean Ridge will hear a PBSO proposal at 6 p.m. May 8 at Town Hall.

By Steve Plunkett



    The proposal to switch police services to the county sheriff got Manalapan neighbors talking, but town commissioners fear much of what’s being said is wrong.   …

In a March story, “Sides agree to plan for crowded property line landscaping,” it may not have been clear that although Manalapan resident E. Peter McLean was asked to serve as an alternate on both the architectural and zoning commissions, he was not able to and was never sworn in as a member of either board.

By Steve Plunkett



    The intrusion of unwelcome outsiders into Manalapan has only gotten worse in Vice Mayor Donald Brennan’s eyes.

    “The beach is a war zone,” Brennan declared at the town’s March 27 commission meeting.

    Brennan said an armed robbery in Ocean Inlet Park in December and two more incidents since then also involving guns had him “very, very worried.”

    “I personally was recently in a confrontation with somebody on the front…

Sophia Isaac (left), Chairman of the Library Volunteers, counts stacks of books to be purchased by Manalapan resident Jeff Solomon (center) as library volunteer Betty Howson awaits the final tally at Manalapan’s  J. Turner Moore Memorial Library book sale on…

Construction crews install sections of a concrete pedestrian tunnel under A1A at the Manalapan residence of G. John Krediet on March 6. Closed for five days to all but emergency vehicles and local traffic, the road reopened March 9. Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal…

Manalapan officials scheduled a “special presentation” for outgoing librarian Mary Ann Kunkle, but the guest of honor was a no-show at the March 27 commission meeting.

“Even though she’s not here, we do have a certificate of appreciation for her,” Mayor Basil Diamond said.

    The town also chose a Kindle Fire e-book reader as a going-away present.

    A substitute went to fill in at the library but Kunkle sent her back, saying she would not be attending, Town Manager Linda…

By Emily J. Minor

    

MANALAPAN — Natalie C. Marcon, a devoted wife and mother whose bright disposition and strong faith carried her through recent years of medical tribulations, died March 1. She was 69.

    Although it was cancer that claimed her life, Mrs. Marcon’s husband, Fred, said his wife…

By Emily J. Minor

    

MANALAPAN — Miriam H. Knapp, a renowned sculptor who adored her family, old-school manners and the magic of stage ballet, died March 20 after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer over the summer. She was 77.

Born in Paris to the late Selma and Maxime Levy Hermanos,…