It's 41 degrees. The only place to sleep is outside. 'It's unconscionable,' homeless advocate says
IT WAS 41 DEGREES at 6 a.m. on Christmas Morning and Josh, a homeless man in Lake Worth Beach, was still wide awake from a sleepless...
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Dec 20, 20225 min read
Lake Worth Beach commissioners splash swimming pool consultants over shallow design 'misstep'
THE CONSULTANTS WERE 20 minutes into a presentation of their latest designs for a $12 million public oceanfront swimming pool when Lake...
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Dec 17, 20223 min read
Boca Raton Bowl: College football players happy to be tackled by Lake Worth Beach surf
THE UNIVERSITY OF Toledo's football team visited Lake Worth Beach on Saturday afternoon and took arguably their biggest pounding since...
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Dec 15, 20224 min read
Light Rail Transit pitched for Okeechobee Boulevard, State Road 7
IMAGINE A LIGHT rail transit line running 13.5 miles down the center of Okeechobee Boulevard from downtown West Palm Beach west to State...
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Dec 14, 20226 min read
Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer has a very shiny connection to Lake Worth Beach
JENIFER GILLEN IS about to spend her first Christmas in her new home. And for perhaps the first time in her life during the holidays, the...
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Dec 9, 20223 min read
You may be shocked (pun intended) to learn how often iguanas cause power outages in Lake Worth Beach
IGUANAS ARE DESTRUCTIVE critters, known for eating our favorite flowers, defecating at will around swimming pools and digging burrows...
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Dec 8, 20224 min read
Model python, and her model handler, ready to strike a pose at West Palm Beach art class
AS MODELS GO, Lucy isn’t one to strut the catwalk in a Christian Dior dress or pitch cosmetics on television. But the beautiful creature...
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Dec 7, 20228 min read
Remembering Joan Newark, baseball's brightest spring training star
BETWEEN FRED MCGRIFF getting elected to the Hall of Fame and Justin Verlander signing a two-year deal with the Mets, there’s been no...
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Dec 1, 20223 min read
‘A gift to you:’ AIDS Quilt panels in Lake Worth Beach include new one tuned with music
ONE OF THE newest panels in the AIDS Memorial Quilt comes with, of all things, a QR code. Scan the code with your smartphone and you’ll...
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Nov 27, 20223 min read
Oceanfront swimming pool: Two new designs to be considered by Lake Worth Beach Commission Dec. 6
LAKE WORTH BEACH city commissioners will consider two designs for a new oceanside municipal swimming pool to replace the 51-year-old pool...
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Nov 20, 20225 min read
‘This is a godsend:’ Turkey giveaway brightens Thanksgiving for Lake Worth Beach area needy
TURKEYS WERE FLYING in downtown Lake Worth Beach on Saturday, right into the hands of the people who most need them. “I’m kind of on the...
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Nov 17, 20224 min read
How Hurricane Nicole swamped a Shelby Cobra sports car replica
THE SIGHT OF a kayaker paddling past homes on a flooded street was surreal enough. But the most shocking part came as my video camera...
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Nov 14, 20227 min read
Subculture's Rodney Mayo files to run against West Palm Mayor Keith James
A DAY BEFORE the filing deadline, West Palm Beach Mayor Keith James has drawn an opponent in the March election, and it’s a name he’s...
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Oct 19, 20228 min read
They put the fright into Fright Nights — Proud 'Family of Freaks' celebrates 20 years of scares
THERE’S A LAWYER, an armored truck courier and a Starbucks barista; a first-grader, a fashion model and a firefighter; a Chipotle cook,...
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Oct 13, 20229 min read
'This is Respectable Street!' —Nightclub’s namesake band humbled to play West Palm Beach show Nov. 4
ONE DAY LAST month, English drummer Terry Chambers was looking over the schedule of his band’s upcoming fall U.S. tour when the name of...
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Oct 4, 202212 min read
A homeless man dies, a Lake Worth Beach community mourns
HE WAS AS much a part of Spillway Park as the trees, birds, squirrels and snook. Just after sunrise every day for the past 20 years or...
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Sep 30, 20227 min read
Banned books required reading at new Lake Worth Beach book clubs for kids, adults
ONE DAY NEXT month, a group of children will gather in a cheerful reading room in downtown Lake Worth Beach to flip through the pages of...
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Sep 21, 202210 min read
'Whoever thought a tree couldn't fly?' Green giant quite a showboat on move to new West Palm home
“LOOK AT THAT! Airborne! Whoever thought that a tree could not fly?’’ Oswald Oakley could not contain his enthusiasm, and no one watching...
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Sep 15, 20224 min read
Restaurateur Rodney Mayo finally finds his right fit in Lake Worth Beach with Dada spin-off
AFTER YEARS OF flirting with the city, Rodney Mayo is finally bringing his Sub-Culture brand to downtown Lake Worth Beach. Mayo, the...
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Sep 13, 20222 min read
Salvage crews remove abandoned yacht from Snook Islands Natural Area
SALVAGE CREWS FINALLY removed the hulking remains of a 33-foot yacht that had been precariously abandoned since June on rocks in an...
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