Briny Breezes News

Floats designed by residents, a 2-mile walk/run and music are planned Saturday as part of the town's 50th anniversary celebration.

A 3-year-old Belle Glade girl suffered a skull fracture and concussion when she accidentally slipped through a broken balcony railing in her second-story apartment and fell to the ground around 11 a.m. Sunday, authorities said.

In a move that contradicted Mayor Roger Bennett's promise from August, the town council has adopted the highest property tax rate allowed by state law - $10 for each $1,000 in taxable value.

After a fight with her 19-year-old daughter, who locked herself in her room on Friday, Lupe Ruesta took extreme action, officials said.

Matthew Duncan was a Marine, a firefighter and a longtime town council member, and could have rested on any of those laurels.

All of the town's residents will be getting a new - and significantly higher - proposed tax notice in the mail later this week.

A year or two from now, the Florida municipality of Briny Breezes, some 15 miles south of opulent Palm Beach, could be erased from the face of the earth.

Celene A. Alexandra's music therapy program, which served special needs students in Palm Beach County elementary schools for 29 years, has been silenced due to budget cuts.

Palm Beach Gardens is back in. So are Juno Beach, South Bay and Briny Breezes. In fact, every city in Palm Beach County now meets the criteria for elimination of state growth controls, despite a contrary interpretation of Senate Bill 360 announced June 12 by Department of Community Affairs Secretary Tom Pelham.

Remember those mobile home owners in Boca Raton, Florida - the ones who made headlines when a Quebec promoter promised them a million dollars each for their trailers a few years ago? They're still waiting to strike it rich.

Gov. Crist has built a solid environmental record for his Senate run. He championed the U.S. Sugar buyout to help restore the Everglades, and he proposed Florida's first renewable energy standards.

The "growth-management" bill that eliminates Florida's strongest growth-management tools is special-interest government at its worst.

Palm Beach County property values plummeted nearly 12 percent in the past year, likely the worst drop since the Great Depression, Property Appraiser Gary Nikolits said this morning.