50 years ago, the Hank Aaron ‘zoo’ invaded WPB before final assault on Babe Ruth's home run record
FIFTY YEARS AGO , on one of the final days of spring training, Henry Aaron was struck in the head by a baseball at West Palm Beach...
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Mar 108 min read
‘Absolutely disgusting:’ Recovery advocates rip Lake Worth Beach PAC mailers
PALM BEACH COUNTY addiction recovery advocates are outraged over attack mailers, sent to Lake Worth Beach voters by a political action...
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Mar 54 min read
Spring training renovations delayed until 2025 as Marlins, Cardinals revise Jupiter stadium 'facelift'
THE MIAMI MARLINS and St. Louis Cardinals won’t start work on a $108 million renovation of their shared spring training facility in...
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Mar 312 min read
‘I am not MAGA!’ — Candidate’s ‘rookie mistake’ fuels partisan uproar in nonpartisan Lake Worth Beach race
THE FAKE FLYER with the headline “Make Lake Worth Beach Republican Again” shows Mimi May, a political newcomer running for City...
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Mar 14 min read
Lake Worth Beach Cottages Tour is back: Walk inside small Old Florida spaces where proud owners are ‘living large’
LAKE WORTH BEACH’S famous cottages are about to go on tour again. After a pandemic-induced hiatus, the nonprofit Cottages of Lake...
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Feb 203 min read
$5.4 million resurfacing project set to roll across downtown's main avenues after Lake Worth Beach Street Painting Festival
LAKE AND LUCERNE avenues will be covered with colorful murals this Saturday and Sunday when more than 600 artists scrawl chalk...
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Feb 174 min read
What’s a 50,000-year-old mammoth leg doing at the Palm Beach Show’s art, jewelry and antique exhibition?
MORE THAN 50,000 years ago, a giant woolly mammoth roamed the icy tundra between Britain and mainland Europe. This weekend, the mammoth’s...
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Feb 138 min read
Like a hippie ‘Hallmark movie,’ Boynton couple re-weds 50 years after first marriage ended in divorce
JUST IN TIME for Valentine’s Day, a love story so enduring, so blissfully sappy, so torn from the script of a Hallmark movie, and so rock...
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Feb 112 min read
The Return of the Bridge Muses: Artist starts restoring two popular murals beneath Royal Park Bridge
THE ROYAL PARK Bridge muses are returning. Sean Yoro, the internationally acclaimed artist known as Hula, returned to downtown West Palm...
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Feb 43 min read
Photographer Harry Benson arrived in America 60 years ago, along with a band called The Beatles
WHEN THE BEATLES arrived in America for the first time, there was no shortage of photographers documenting the moment on the tarmac at...
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Jan 302 min read
ByJoeCapozzi.com wins three first-place awards in 2023 Florida Press Club competition
BYJOECAPOZZI.COM won three first-place awards and a second-place honor in the Florida Press Club’s 2023 Excellence in...
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Jan 263 min read
Rudy's at Bamboo: Popular Lake Worth Beach music venue to expand upstairs into Bamboo Room
RUDY'S PUB, a popular downtown Lake Worth Beach music venue, is about to expand into an iconic space directly above it — the...
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Jan 243 min read
Food charity relocating weekly Lake Worth Beach distribution site to Boynton Beach Mall
A VITAL POP-UP food charity relied on by thousands is moving its Saturday morning distribution site from downtown Lake Worth Beach to a...
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Jan 143 min read
Jack The Bike Man selling its warehouse, ending late founder’s dream for grand West Palm Beach home
THE LATE JACK Hairston’s dream to convert an old West Palm Beach warehouse into a permanent home for his popular Jack The Bike...
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Nov 26, 20239 min read
Banjo picker who advised presidents and jammed with folk icons enjoying a mellower gig in Lantana
ON A RECENT Monday evening, banjo picker John Holum led a few neighbors on singalongs of some old favorites: John Denver’s “Take Me Home,...
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Oct 19, 20233 min read
Thanks a latte! New lease keeps Subculture Coffee on Clematis Street five more years
SUBCULTURE COFFEE CAN keep brewing at its original Clematis Street store for the next five years after city commissioners, rejecting an...
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Oct 17, 20235 min read
How pickleball — yes, pickleball — is reuniting some Florida Marlins baseball champions
BACK IN OCTOBER 2003, when he was winning two World Series games for the Florida Marlins, 25-year-old pitcher Brad Penny had no reason to...
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Oct 11, 20237 min read
Prison art documentary at Norton museum kicks off second annual Subculture Film Festival
LONG BEFORE SETTING out to be a filmmaker, Karim Dakkon spent a good part of his childhood hanging out at a neighbor's house in the...
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Oct 5, 20236 min read
Marlins-Cardinals throw stadium renovation schedule a sharp curve
IT WILL BE business as usual next spring at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium — just baseball and no construction activity — for the Miami ...
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Sep 29, 20236 min read
The day Brooks Robinson stuck around with a young photographer in West Palm Beach
IN THE PHOTOGRAPH, the Baltimore Orioles star Brooks Robinson is standing on a baseball field, holding a bat and looking at the camera...
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