Joe Capozzi
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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Joe Capozzi
- Dec 8, 2022
- 4 min
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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Joe Capozzi
- Nov 17, 2022
- 4 min
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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Joe Capozzi
- Oct 4, 2022
- 12 min
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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Joe Capozzi
- Sep 30, 2022
- 7 min
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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Joe Capozzi
- Sep 21, 2022
- 10 min
'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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Joe Capozzi
- Sep 13, 2022
- 2 min
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 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 17, 2022
- 3 min
Nature on tap at Twisted Trunk brewery benefit for Palm Beach County wilderness destinations
LOCAL NATURE LOVERS usually can be found outdoors, hiking, biking and kayaking through more than 31,000 acres of wilderness in Palm Beach...
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Joe Capozzi
- Jul 23, 2022
- 3 min
In Jupiter, this bear encounter has a happy ending
DOUG COVIN OF Jupiter was standing at the base of a 50-ft. strangler fig in his backyard Saturday morning when he heard the crack of a...
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Joe Capozzi
- Jul 13, 2022
- 4 min
Rough waters ahead for renowned dive spot during Blue Heron Bridge construction project
SNORKELING AT THE Blue Heron Bridge, a world-renowned dive spot, will be a lot more challenging for a few months next year. Access to the...
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Joe Capozzi
- Jul 1, 2022
- 10 min
Was killing this Florida black bear necessary? State agency rips PBSO decision to 'take the shot'
DO NOT SHOOT the bear. You don’t want to shoot the bear. The state wildlife officer could not have been more emphatic in his directive to...
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Joe Capozzi
- Apr 11, 2022
- 5 min
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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