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May 2, 20225 min read

Is free parking in downtown Lake Worth Beach about to end?

UPDATE: This story was updated at 5:30 p.m. May 6 to reflect the city's decision to delete the parking study from the May 9 City...

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Apr 25, 20225 min read

Tunnel vision for downtown West Palm Beach: Bury Okeechobee Boulevard traffic underground

PALM BEACH COUNTY transportation planners are about to explore a bold plan to reroute a half-mile stretch of Okeechobee Boulevard through...

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Apr 18, 20226 min read

How you can peek inside the Melbourne home where Jim Morrison of The Doors lived as an infant

JIM MORRISON SLEPT here. Long before he first sang “come on baby, light my fire” with The Doors, he cried here, too, learned to crawl...

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Apr 11, 20225 min read

Former county commissioner patiently waits for construction of Jupiter park named after her in 2012

EVERY OTHER WEEK or so, the driver of a brown Honda Pilot performs a peculiar ritual while motoring north along a certain stretch of U.S....

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Apr 6, 20225 min read

'My peace has come, I will pass this way no more forever,’ Oklahoma Seminoles in South Florida say

DEEP INSIDE A lush South Florida hardwood hammock, leaders of the Great Seminole Nation of Oklahoma gathered Sunday morning for an...

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Mar 28, 20226 min read

Extreme Makeover Masterpiece — Artists feel right at home in newest Lake Worth Beach pop-up gallery

LAST SATURDAY NIGHT, more than 200 art lovers from as far away as Miami gathered for the opening of Palm Beach County’s newest gallery...

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Mar 25, 20223 min read

Soaring like 'Iron Man' — Flyboarding superhero owns the sky over Palm Beach International Boat Show

SOARING ACROSS sky, Kristen Smoyer looks like a comic book superhero come to life. Her feet strapped to a water jet, she rises 40 to 50...

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Mar 18, 20225 min read

Oklahoma Seminoles ready to connect with Florida ancestors’ spirits in historic visit to Jupiter

ON A SUNDAY morning early next month, members of the Great Seminole Nation of Oklahoma will march through a gate off Indiantown Road and...

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Mar 13, 20228 min read

‘We are not on vacation here’ — Ukrainian refugees in Palm Beach find no escape from war back home

AS SAFE HOUSES go, it’s hard to beat an oceanfront condo on Palm Beach with a swimming pool and view of the Lake Worth Beach Pier. But...

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Mar 2, 20226 min read

Wife-carrying race?? Don't laugh. Lake Worth Beach run might be 'the hardest minute of your life'

ELLIOT STOREY OF Delray Beach has run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, bicycled up mountains in California and pumped iron in strongman...

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Feb 27, 20223 min read

Daughter honors late mother who nudged her into chalk art after Lake Worth Beach festival visit

JUST AROUND THE CORNER from Jimi Hendrix, one block from Kevin Costner in “Yellowstone” and right next to Miley Cyrus, 18-year-old...

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Feb 25, 20226 min read

As real estate prices skyrocket, scammers target unsuspecting renters desperate for a bargain

ON A SUNNY morning in January, marketing writer Amanda Kahan was working in her Lake Worth Beach home when she heard a knock on the door....

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Feb 21, 20226 min read

As virus retreats, chalk artists eager to hit pavement at Lake Worth Beach Street Painting Festival

WHEN THE COVID-19 pandemic wiped out the usual slate of chalk art festivals around the United States, California artist Naomi Duben...

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Feb 17, 20223 min read

The Trouble With Harry’s — Wayward truck nearly silences popular dive bar’s edgy outdoor quips

SOME MIGHT SAY Harry’s had it coming. Like a back-hand smack to the mouth of Lake Worth Beach’s biggest smart aleck, a wayward delivery...

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Feb 4, 20224 min read

Area leaders mourning death of former Palm Beach County Attorney Gary Brandenburg

PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND community leaders across South Florida are mourning the death of long-time municipal government attorney Gary...

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Feb 3, 20227 min read

Fiddler on the boat delivers sweet bluegrass at West Palm Beach GreenMarket

THE FIDDLER ON Clematis Street lives alone on a boat in the Intracoastal Waterway. His faithful companion is an Albert Knorr violin,...

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Jan 28, 20225 min read

Cold snaps bring out alligators — and their space invaders: 'Most of the time people get too close.'

THE GATOR WAS doing what authentic non-football Florida gators do when cold snaps force them out of the water in search of a warm...

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Jan 18, 20227 min read

Outlaw's glass eye among never-before-seen artifacts at new 'Ashley Gang' exhibit in Martin County

JOHN ASHLEY'S GLASS eye is intimidating those in its stare once again. Piercing blue, it ogles beholders from its perch in a glass...

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Jan 12, 20226 min read

Lake Worth Beach 'Red Diaper Baby' learned peaceful dissent firsthand from Martin Luther King Jr.

JUST DOWN THE alley from her South J Street art studio, Joyce Brown’s former teacher towers 72 feet over downtown Lake Worth Beach. “I...

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Jan 7, 202212 min read

City attorney's power struggle with Pahokee mayor plays out in toxic political theater, DOJ request

AT JUST ABOUT all municipal meetings in Florida, the city attorney sits quietly at the end of the dais, speaking only when asked by...

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