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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 31, 20248 min read
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Spring training renovations delayed until 2025 as Marlins, Cardinals revise Jupiter stadium 'facelift'
THE MIAMI MARLINS and St. Louis Cardinals won’t start work on a $108 million renovation of their shared spring training facility in...
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Mar 5, 20244 min read
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‘I am not MAGA!’ — Candidate’s ‘rookie mistake’ fuels partisan uproar in nonpartisan Lake Worth Beach race
THE FAKE FLYER with the headline “Make Lake Worth Beach Republican Again” shows Mimi May, a political newcomer running for City...
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Mar 3, 202412 min read
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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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Mar 1, 20244 min read
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$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 20, 20243 min read
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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 17, 20244 min read
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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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Feb 13, 20248 min read
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The Return of the Bridge Muses: Artist starts restoring two popular murals beneath Royal Park Bridge
THE ROYAL PARK Bridge muses are returning. Sean Yoro, the internationally acclaimed artist known as Hula, returned to downtown West Palm...
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Feb 11, 20242 min read
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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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Jan 30, 20242 min read
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Food charity relocating weekly Lake Worth Beach distribution site to Boynton Beach Mall
A VITAL POP-UP food charity relied on by thousands is moving its Saturday morning distribution site from downtown Lake Worth Beach to a...
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Jan 24, 20243 min read
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Jack The Bike Man selling its warehouse, ending late founder’s dream for grand West Palm Beach home
THE LATE JACK Hairston’s dream to convert an old West Palm Beach warehouse into a permanent home for his popular Jack The Bike...
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Jan 14, 20243 min read
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Pop-up food charity relied on by thousands may be forced out of Lake Worth Beach over traffic issues
NO ONE DISPUTES the positive difference Restoration Bridge International makes every Saturday morning in Lake Worth Beach by handing out...
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Dec 3, 20238 min read
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Thanks a latte! New lease keeps Subculture Coffee on Clematis Street five more years
SUBCULTURE COFFEE CAN keep brewing at its original Clematis Street store for the next five years after city commissioners, rejecting an...
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Oct 19, 20233 min read
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Prison art documentary at Norton museum kicks off second annual Subculture Film Festival
LONG BEFORE SETTING out to be a filmmaker, Karim Dakkon spent a good part of his childhood hanging out at a neighbor's house in the...
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Oct 11, 20237 min read
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Marlins-Cardinals throw stadium renovation schedule a sharp curve
IT WILL BE business as usual next spring at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium — just baseball and no construction activity — for the Miami ...
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Oct 5, 20236 min read
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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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Sep 29, 20236 min read
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Rarely seen movie about rocker Meat Loaf coming to L-Dub Film Fest, thanks to the late Franne Lee
A RARELY SCREENED 1982 movie about the rock star Meat Loaf is coming to downtown Lake Worth Beach this weekend as part of the 11th annual...
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Sep 18, 20236 min read
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For Sale: The Paradise Building in downtown Lake Worth Beach, home to Bamboo Room, Rudy's Pub
THE PARADISE BUILDING, home to two popular downtown Lake Worth Beach music venues, is for sale. The historic 1923 building at 17 S. J...
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Sep 5, 20232 min read
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Crisis at the kennels: Crowded Palm Beach County shelter resorts to euthanasia to free up cages
FOR MORE THAN A YEAR, Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control has been sounding the alarm about an overcrowding “crisis” at the public...
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Aug 23, 20238 min read
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Lake Worth Beach commissioners ready to dive into deeper, pricier swimming pool design
DESIGN A DEEPER multi-use public swimming pool, Lake Worth Beach city commissioners told a consultant eight months ago. On Aug. 15, a new...
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Aug 4, 20232 min read
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