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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 21, 20236 min read
The day musician David Crosby surrendered to the FBI in West Palm Beach
DAVID CROSBY, the influential musician who died Jan. 18 at age 81, performed several times in West Palm Beach over the years, both solo...
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Jan 18, 20235 min read
WPB Mayor Keith James shrugs off recall threat, rips ex-challenger Rodney Mayo’s ‘credibility’
WEST PALM BEACH Mayor Keith James fired back at downtown businessman Rodney Mayo for threatening to launch a recall petition after a...
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Jan 17, 20234 min read
Judge disqualifies Rodney Mayo from March 14 election, giving WPB Mayor Keith James another term
RODNEY MAYO’S BID to challenge West Palm Beach Mayor Keith James in the March 14 election is over. A Palm Beach County Circuit judge...
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Jan 10, 20233 min read
Bridge tender avoids prison, pleads guilty in deal approved by family of the late Carol Wright
THE BRIDGE TENDER controlling the Royal Park Bridge drawbridge when a woman walking across fell to her death last year will avoid prison...
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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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Dec 25, 20222 min read
It's 41 degrees. The only place to sleep is outside. 'It's unconscionable,' homeless advocate says
IT WAS 41 DEGREES at 6 a.m. on Christmas Morning and Josh, a homeless man in Lake Worth Beach, was still wide awake from a sleepless...
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Dec 17, 20223 min read
Boca Raton Bowl: College football players happy to be tackled by Lake Worth Beach surf
THE UNIVERSITY OF Toledo's football team visited Lake Worth Beach on Saturday afternoon and took arguably their biggest pounding since...
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Dec 15, 20224 min read
Light Rail Transit pitched for Okeechobee Boulevard, State Road 7
IMAGINE A LIGHT rail transit line running 13.5 miles down the center of Okeechobee Boulevard from downtown West Palm Beach west to State...
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Dec 8, 20224 min read
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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Dec 7, 20228 min read
Remembering Joan Newark, baseball's brightest spring training star
BETWEEN FRED MCGRIFF getting elected to the Hall of Fame and Justin Verlander signing a two-year deal with the Mets, there’s been no...
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Dec 1, 20223 min read
‘A gift to you:’ AIDS Quilt panels in Lake Worth Beach include new one tuned with music
ONE OF THE newest panels in the AIDS Memorial Quilt comes with, of all things, a QR code. Scan the code with your smartphone and you’ll...
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Nov 20, 20225 min read
‘This is a godsend:’ Turkey giveaway brightens Thanksgiving for Lake Worth Beach area needy
TURKEYS WERE FLYING in downtown Lake Worth Beach on Saturday, right into the hands of the people who most need them. “I’m kind of on the...
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Nov 14, 20227 min read
Subculture's Rodney Mayo files to run against West Palm Mayor Keith James
A DAY BEFORE the filing deadline, West Palm Beach Mayor Keith James has drawn an opponent in the March election, and it’s a name he’s...
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Oct 19, 20228 min read
They put the fright into Fright Nights — Proud 'Family of Freaks' celebrates 20 years of scares
THERE’S A LAWYER, an armored truck courier and a Starbucks barista; a first-grader, a fashion model and a firefighter; a Chipotle cook,...
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Oct 13, 20229 min read
'This is Respectable Street!' —Nightclub’s namesake band humbled to play West Palm Beach show Nov. 4
ONE DAY LAST month, English drummer Terry Chambers was looking over the schedule of his band’s upcoming fall U.S. tour when the name of...
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Oct 4, 202212 min read
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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Sep 21, 202210 min read
'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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Sep 15, 20224 min read
Restaurateur Rodney Mayo finally finds his right fit in Lake Worth Beach with Dada spin-off
AFTER YEARS OF flirting with the city, Rodney Mayo is finally bringing his Sub-Culture brand to downtown Lake Worth Beach. Mayo, the...
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Sep 9, 202213 min read
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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