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 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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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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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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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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Jul 25, 20234 min read
'Shame on you!' — Tempers flare as Jupiter Town Council OK's limited protections at Suni Sands
TEMPERS FLARED AT Jupiter Town Hall Tuesday night when the Town Council voted to allow townhouses, condos and other development on parts...
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Jun 19, 20235 min read
Subculture Coffee, facing October eviction, gets new chance to extend Clematis Street lease
WEST PALM BEACH city commissioners, rejecting an earlier city staff directive, have agreed to negotiate a new lease that would allow...
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May 29, 20233 min read
Colorful art-deco makeover coming to Armory Art Center — 'It's going to be beautiful'
THE ARMORY ART Center in West Palm Beach is getting a colorful makeover. The historic art deco armory building at 811 Park Place at the...
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May 14, 20235 min read
Another attendance slide raises questions about SunFest's future: 'We are not Woodstock!'
JUAN ORELLANA LOVES SunFest. The West Palm Beach man attended all three days of last weekend's scaled-back 2023 edition and had a great...
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Mar 11, 20235 min read
Love-for-Lit Story: How political challenges to books gave a big boost to LWB Little Free Libraries
THE BOOKS ARRIVE daily, dropped off in boxes at Mary Lindsey’s front door by an Amazon, UPS or U.S. Postal Service truck. ‘‘Every day, I...
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Mar 6, 202313 min read
Jupiter board blocks construction plans on historic waterfront land, forcing a reckoning with past
ON A BRIGHT winter day, Charles Modica took in the view from a grassy mound overlooking the confluence of the Loxahatchee and Indian...
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Feb 18, 20231 min read
Look what you're missing at the 20th annual Palm Beach Jewelry Art & Antique show!
CAN’T MAKE IT out to the 20th annual Palm Beach Show? That’s a pity because you’re really missing out on an eye-candy smorgasbord. If...
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Feb 3, 202337 min read
The Bicyclist and The Bridgetender: The happy life, tragic death and lasting legacy of Carol Wright
ON A WARM sun-splashed Sunday morning early last year, a familiar sound grabbed Ron Taylor's attention as he was about to pull into the...
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Jan 5, 20235 min read
Henry Flagler reimagined: Gilded Age Palm Beach gets colorful modern spin at LWB art exhibit
IMAGINE HENRY FLAGLER in Palm Beach today decked out in a striped Maus & Hoffman blazer or wearing a top hat with Lilly Pulitzer...
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Jan 2, 20234 min read
How Hurricane Ian inspired Benny’s on the Beach to add a second LWB restaurant
NOT LONG AFTER Hurricane Ian slammed into southwest Florida in late September, the owners of Benny’s on the Beach in Lake Worth Beach...
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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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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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