Cities like West Palm Beach, Lake Worth, Boynton Beach and Tequesta also are planning for big changes to the road by narrowing it, building bigger sidewalks and adding bike lanes and shade trees. Some want more vibrant downtowns; others are reacting to the influx of residential development to the corridor.
Breaking News: A police officer in Netherlands found a baby owl roaming on the streets today. pic.twitter.com/9xwJWLmjUd
— Gautam Trivedi (@Gotham3) July 24, 2015
Some living near the All County Funeral Home and Crematory are concerned that dark smoke coming from the funeral home is possibly ashes of deceased people. [it's not]Here is the definition of soot: a black, carbonaceous substance produced during incomplete combustion of coal, wood, oil, etc., rising in fine particles and adhering to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke: also conveyed in the atmosphere to other locations.
The Palm Beach County Health Department said that what people are actually seeing is soot, which it said is similar to what is seen when diesel is burning.
The Health Department, which oversees crematories, showed up after it received several complaints along with pictures showing the thick, black smoke coming out of the building.
Burners within the incinerators are reportedly not working correctly and the Health Department is trying to figure out why.
Two roaming coyotes were recently spotted and the top halves of two dead cats were found in The Landings at River Bridge on Jog Road, according to an email from the president of the community’s board of directors.If you spot a coyote in the City of Lake Worth or have other good news you want to share with Kevin Thompson at The Palm Beach Post, here is his contact info:
Residents received the email on Tuesday.
“This was a total surprise to me because we’ve had raccoons like crazy,” said Jeneil Stevens, who has lived in River Bridge the past five years. “Maybe this might cure that problem.”
Why we like it: Honestly, even if the food was awful, which it’s not (it’s delicious!) we’d come here just for the view of the golf course and its colorful creatures, like the young duck that came and sat under our table on the patio, and the golfers taking a break for a beer. And then there’s the Intracoastal and a peek of Palm Beach, where they’re paying through the nose for sandwich and you’re chilling on your $5 slider over here in the L-Dub. It’s all delicious.If You Go: The Beach Club, 1 7th Ave. North, Lake Worth, at the Lake Worth Municipal Golf Course, (561) 585-8976
Why else we like it: It really is possible to be full off of the Happy Hour menu here and feel like you had some real food. And it’s good food – the chicken sliders with bacon are surreal.
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| TOB confirms on her blog she is indeed "Obtuse". |
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| From a previous silly list: "Beverage Violations" are not crimes. |
On Sunday, July 29, 2012, Margaret Menge rolled out her on-line 'newspaper' called The Lake Worth Sun. The last story in The Lake Worth Sun appeared 100 days later, on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. That was election day in Lake Worth.[November 6, 2012 was the day Commissioner McVoy was re-elected.]
I [Margaret Menge, Editor and Publisher] have an awful lot to say about the news this week. But I have to take a break to ask for your help.[and...]
I need help if I am to continue to put out this newspaper every week.
I need someone to type up the Events Calendar each week. You could do it from home. It should take a couple of hours to gather the information, type it up and send it in.
If there's someone pretty sharp out there – maybe a retired attorney or journalist – I would really appreciate your help in going through this [PBSO] crime report and rewriting it in English.[and...]
If you have not done so already, please subscribe to the newspaper. Just do it. Send your check in, and we will bring a paper around to you. Free delivery to College Park and all other homes east of Federal is a promotional thing, and it's going to end very soon.How interesting! [and...]
The newspaper business is tough, and more money has been going out than coming in over these last three months as I worked to set up an office and start the newspaper.And this comes as a surprise? To whom? [and lastly, drum roll please...]
I want to keep this paper going. But it's a terrible lot of work...But I need more help. I don't mind admitting it.Note that Margaret's editorial uses the word "I" sixteen times. Which makes you wonder who this 'community' newspaper serves: her or us.
The thick black smoke was hard to miss. It curled into the sky, swallowing the tops of palm trees and tumbling down like a shroud over the downtown streets around Lake Avenue just west of U.S. 1.
The operators of a Lake Avenue crematorium have apologized to residents of a nearby neighborhood after heavy smoke from a cremation was released into the air last week for the second time in 16 days.Now more about the story that appeared in Sunday's printed edition. Won't get specific but it appears my blog post that day (7/19) resonated with some at the Post. My point is simply this: the crematorium incident(s) in Lake Worth is/are news but have no place on the front page, 'A' section of the paper. This is a local story and belongs in the Local 'B' section. The City of Lake Worth was used to sell more papers. Burning bodies, smoke "shrouds", the (imagined) smell of cremated hair can achieve that purpose.
All County Funeral Home & Crematory informed the Palm Beach County Health Department about the latest smoking incident, minutes after it occurred on the morning of July 16 and said it had identified a potential cause.
“We won’t rest until we figure out the cause and we sincerely apologize to anyone who has been negatively affected by these incidents,’’ Shaun Luyk, All County’s general manager, wrote that day in a letter to Sarah Malega, president of the Royal Poinciana Neighborhood Association.
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Colleen Lynn Berzok, 37, a children’s swimming instructor in Coral Springs, was struck by a car Monday night, July 13, and was pronounced dead the following afternoon. The collision, still under investigation, occurred at the 2800 block of E. Sunrise Blvd., a stone's throw from Fort Lauderdale Beach, by a driver who remained on the scene, according to FLPD, which has yet to release the identity. Out in Weston just a few days later, on Friday, July 17, bicycle rider Steven Caine, 51, father and CEO of Larry Kline Meats, was struck by driver Michael Chatman, 30, and killed around 5:30 p.m.Unfortunately the death of Austin Gilliam is slowing fading into the past and will soon be completely forgotten by most, except for the family of course. Austin only did what DOT signs instructed him to do: "share the road" and it cost him his life.
Florida leads the nation in fatal bicycle and pedestrian crashes, according to a 2013 report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
“Florida is dead last,” says Florida Atlantic University Professor of Urban Regional Planning Eric Dumbaugh. “We have the highest rates of pedestrian/vehicle fatalities in the nation.” [emphasis added]
Dumbaugh purports that South Florida’s street are simply poorly designed for multimodal transportation use. The posted speeds, such as 45 mph, are too fast for pedestrians to share the road safely with vehicles.
On Wednesday, West Palm Beach Mayor Jeri Muoio held an emergency meeting with community leaders and clergy after three shootings within two miles and six hours.
Adams' death is at least the fourth fatal shooting the city has had since the beginning of the month and the 55th shooting since the beginning of the year.
Witnesses and victims are not coming forward, officials said, making it hard to catch those responsible. They hope the mayor's meeting will garner some solutions about how to reach the community and stop the violence.
"Victims are not telling us what they know," said Elliot Cohen, director of communications for the Mayor's Office. "Any city can put hundreds of police officers on the street, but it's not going to do you any good if you don't have cooperation in the city."
Vice Mayor Scott Maxwell said he’s not fond of gates, but understands the reasons for them.If you have good news you want to share with Kevin Thompson at the Post such as a community cleanup or a recent Crime Walk with PBSO here is how you contact the reporter:
“We have to remember, unless our code prohibits it…this is not our money and it’s not our property,” [emphasis added] he said. “We really need to embrace folks who want to invest in this city and that’s something that’s alluded this city for decades. We pay lip service to it, but when (investors) come in, we beat them up.”
Under the new plan, Bella Terra will have 12 one-bedroom units priced at $145,000 and 24 two-bedrooms townhomes selling for $225,000.
White [Bella Terra owner Troy White] said the one-bedroom units should catch the eyes of young people looking to become homeowners.
“These will be extremely marketable to millennials,” White said. “A lot of them are being priced out of the market and forced to rent.” White plans to start construction in the fall.
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| Tom McGow's clever satire of Mr. Laurence McNamara and Mrs. Dieudonne "Dee" McNamara in 2009. Tom McGow was quite disturbed at the prospect of Mr. McNamara (on left) becoming the mayor of Lake Worth. |
Home occupations: Any regularly pursued activity conducted on a building site which is secondary to the principal use of such premises as a residence, and which produces a reliable and regular livelihood income for the resident so employed. Home occupations are those occupations customarily practiced in the home which have limited client presence on the residential site. Such occupations are incidental and secondary to the principal use of the premises as a residence. Home hobbies where services or products are not sold are not considered home occupations.The keywords here are "secondary" and "incidental" to the principal use as a residence.
Sec. 23.3-4. - Inclusionary as to permitted use.
The intent of this chapter is that it be "inclusionary." That is, principal uses, accessory uses, and conditional uses specifically stated for each zoning district shall be the only uses permitted. Any use proposed within any given zoning district which is not a stated use or use type within said district is expressly prohibited. Questions of whether a use is of a type listed shall be interpreted by either the planning and zoning board or the historic resources preservation board, but no use variance shall be approved.
The company [Zillow] crunched the numbers on rebounding housing markets and determined that Palm Beach County’s luckiest homeowners live in modest homes in Lantana — provided they bought in January 2012.
Zillow looked at through-to-today trends. Lantana’s low point came in January 2012, when the typical house cost $84,200. Now it’s worth $148,900, a 77 percent jump.
Other fortunate homeowners are in unincorporated Lake Worth (up 74 percent), the city of Lake Worth (also up 74 percent), Lake Park (up 73 percent) and Greenacres (up 73 percent).
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| A portion of the survey. |
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| So much for the "Scientific Method". |
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| Mike Olive at his Common Ground (no 's') church. |
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| Note the words, "biblical insight in how to deal with cultural issues". |
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| Here is a link to Romans 1:24-32. Mike Olive posted this on Facebook page with the question, "What do you think?" In retrospect we should ask Mike Olive the very same question. |
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| Another image from Mike Olive's Facebook page. |
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| This item appeared in The Palm Beach Post today (7/21). |
To most people, the terms "car crash" and "car accident" are largely interchangeable. But a growing number of traffic safety advocates have been pointing out that there's actually a big difference — and they want journalists, public officials, and everyday people to say crash, not accident.
The two groups behind the recent campaign — Transportation Alternatives and Families for Safe Streets — argue that the term "accident" makes it seem like crashes are inevitable, rather than preventable. In a subtle way, it normalizes the crash and discourages us from looking more deeply into their causes — whether alcohol, reckless driving, or bad street design.
All this might seem pedantic, but there's a real point here. We live in an era when most Americans drive around in multi-ton machines at high speed, and these vehicles kill with surprising regularity. They cause 30,000 or so deaths per year, as many people as are killed by guns. If we want to cut down on that number, it's worth examining the language we use to describe these events.
Free movie at the Cultural Plaza this Friday 8 pm
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Free Wonka Candy for kids while supplies last!
Info call 561 4932550
— LULA Lake Worth Arts (@LakeWorthArts) July 20, 2015
Palm Beach Illustrated covered the Lake Worth "renaissance." Very exciting! pic.twitter.com/zNCjJUuKdn
— Lake Worth (@LakeWorthPBC) July 20, 2015
United States Constitution
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Cause of Death: The amnesty executive order of Czar [sic] Barak [sic] Hussein Obama.
If I'm elected President, who should we attack? Retweet for Iran, Favorite for Russia.
— Jack Kimble (@RepJackKimble) July 20, 2015
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| Note that the "failing Lake Worth Casino" is now a confirmed failure. Hence the present city commission's responsibility to move forward in seeking new ideas. |
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| "REAL NEWS STARTS HERE"? |
Above the fold is the upper half of the front page of a newspaper where an important news story or photograph is often located. Papers are often displayed to customers folded so that only the top half of the front page is visible. Thus, an item that is "above the fold" may be one that the editors feel will entice people to buy the paper.Would it fair to conclude the Post's editors used this story to sell more newspapers? Mull on this for a few days: "REAL NEWS STARTS HERE"?
“We’re looking to add a little spark to Lucerne Avenue,” Fleming [Chris Fleming partner/co-founder of Strategic Realty Services] said. “There are a lot of people looking to get into the restaurant business, but that’s probably not going to be our first-choice tenant. We want somebody who’s seasoned in the business.”If you have other good news to share with Kevin Thompson at the Post (Crime Walks with PBSO for example) here is his contact information:
Fleming didn’t want to say what kind of restaurant will move into the building, built in 1955.
“I don’t want to be nailed down to a specific concept,” he said. “But there will be a limited menu and entertainment.”
Fleming said he’s already talked to restaurant operators in Key West and the borough of Brooklyn in New York. [emphasis added]
Palm Beach County Schools Superintendent Robert Avossa has plenty to worry about as he finishes up his first month on the job.
But the thing that he says keeps him up at night? The county school system’s decaying infrastructure.
“I would argue that it’s almost a crisis,” he told The Post’s Editorial Board Thursday.
It’s no secret that the county’s public schools are suffering from breakdowns, decay and poor maintenance.
The problem, school administrators say, is a perennial shortfall in the school district’s budget for construction and maintenance.
Juan Mullerat argues that Calle Ocho is Miami’s most historic street, but sometime between now and the 1960s it was transformed into a three-lane highway to absorb the brunt of the city’s growing east-west commuters. [emphasis added][and. . .]
“I’m driving down it down and I don’t see anybody walking, just cars,” Mullerat tells New Times on his commute home. “I think the solution is in the back of everybody’s mind. It’s not visionary. It’s removing a highway and putting a real street where it’s supposed to go.”
Mullerat is the director of PlusUrbia, a small design firm in Coconut Grove. After the Florida Department of Transportation announced plans to redevelop roadway designs of Calle Ocho from NW 27th Avenue to NW First Avenue, his team began working. For the last few months, Mullerat and a team PlusUrbia designers tackled the “Highway Ocho” problem pro-bono, trying to return Calle Ocho to the calm, pedestrian-friendly main street it was 50 years ago.
Whether or not the FDOT accepts PlusUrbia’s proposal, Mullerat fears that FDOT won’t take the opportunity to bring real change. “There’s an effort out there to make better streets. We just want to make sure they are better. I would hate for the powers that be to just put a couple of trees and benches and call it a day,” he sighs.Now about those one-way streets in Lake Worth . . .
![Dr. W. H. Cotton’s ode: “Oh, My Lake Worth, Florida!” [circa 1920].](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUL75cv6zJQFjX15ojOIIz9AjnbqH4asHJTYSDhnGnYr7rJZRha1NcNTirj2xPcId158vkz5Hw-wXgOfrlztj8Zr8jLFFCfuEN6PyV44ZlpMRmJ68xbtFL9vzxNiG7xDs_HJvm/s1600/LakeWorthPioneers.JPG)
