Joe Capozzi
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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Joe Capozzi
- Sep 9, 2022
- 13 min
Short-term vacation rentals are illegal in Lake Worth Beach. So, why won’t the city crack down?
THE WHOOPING AND yelling by the women around the pool had been going on for an hour when suddenly the noise morphed into a primordial...
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Joe Capozzi
- Sep 1, 2022
- 8 min
Snook Islands turning into ‘Gilligan’s Island’ as boat graveyard threatens sensitive natural area
THE SNOOK ISLANDS in Lake Worth Beach are supposed to be an ecological gem of manmade mangroves, oyster reefs and wildlife along the Lake...
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Joe Capozzi
- Aug 24, 2022
- 5 min
As drones harass protected nesting birds, Lake Worth Beach considers flight restrictions
AN EXTRAORDINARY SCENE played out in the sky above the Bryant Park shoreline in Lake Worth Beach on the Fourth of July. It did not...
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Joe Capozzi
- Aug 13, 2022
- 4 min
Atlantis Skateway closing Aug. 20 after 47 years, but the roller rink’s future could be on ice
FROM FIRST DATES and family reunions to birthday partiers and summer vacationers, generations of local roller-skaters have been gliding...
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Joe Capozzi
- May 17, 2022
- 7 min
Party on the patio coming to an end? Rudy's Pub hoping Lake Worth Beach won't pull plug on back lot
TO MUSIC LOVERS and hipsters of all ages, the back patio at Rudy’s Pub is a patch of heaven on earth, a safe place to dance under the...
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Joe Capozzi
- May 8, 2022
- 4 min
Lake Worth Beach cancer survivor hoping Rudy’s fundraiser will take bite out of medical bills
FLIP ON THE remote these days, the scrolling menu of television viewing options can seem endless. For Jeff Shores of Lake Worth Beach,...
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Joe Capozzi
- May 2, 2022
- 5 min
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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Joe Capozzi
- Mar 28, 2022
- 6 min
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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Joe Capozzi
- Mar 13, 2022
- 8 min
‘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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Joe Capozzi
- Mar 2, 2022
- 6 min
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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Joe Capozzi
- Feb 27, 2022
- 3 min
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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Joe Capozzi
- Feb 25, 2022
- 6 min
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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Joe Capozzi
- Feb 21, 2022
- 6 min
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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Joe Capozzi
- Feb 17, 2022
- 3 min
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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Joe Capozzi
- Feb 12, 2022
- 3 min
How a former Cincinnati Bengals tight end scored a touchdown in downtown Lake Worth Beach 🏈 🍻 ☘️
DOWNTOWN LAKE WORTH Beach’s newest watering hole has a Cincinnati Bengals connection as deep as a Joe Burrow pass to Ja’Marr Chase. The...
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Joe Capozzi
- Jan 23, 2022
- 4 min
'Surreal' plight of Gulfstream Hotel inspires Lake Worth Beach artist's satirical poke with brush
FOR THE PAST 17 years, as the six-story, 100-room Gulfstream Hotel sat shuttered and empty, Lake Worth Beach residents waited patiently...
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Joe Capozzi
- Jan 12, 2022
- 6 min
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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Joe Capozzi
- Dec 21, 2021
- 3 min
Would you plant a 20-foot tree in middle of the driveway? Here's why one Lake Worth Beach man did.
WHEN NEIGHBORS AND visitors see his front yard for the first time, Roger Bennett of Lake Worth Beach gets the same incredulous question:...
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Joe Capozzi
- Dec 8, 2021
- 4 min
Unplugged Homeless Artist All Charged Up After Grinches Pull Plug On Lake Worth Beach Holiday Tree
FOR MOST OF the year, artist Hernan Lopez has enjoyed the perks of painting from his makeshift oceanfront studio in a shaded public...
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