Briny Breezes News

A 21-year-old man has been arrested on charges he stole a dozen GPS units from unlocked cars in Briny Breezes.

Police have arrested a man accused of committing more than a dozen vehicle burglaries in Briny Breezes so he could pawn their navigational systems.

Ryan Heavyside, of Nomad Surf Shop in Briny Breezes, braved the cold with a handful of other surfers at Lake Worth Municpal Beach Monday morning despite the cold.

He brought with him a 1926 plat map of his town to a Boynton Beach city commission meeting, in hopes that it would be Exhibit A of his case.

Six months after the state turned from growth watchdog to lapdog, the fight over growth management in Florida continues.

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.