Jupiter Island News

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, his wife and family are spending the Fourth of July weekend in Florida, according to the Palm Beach Post newspaper.

Toninoa s opened this spring with a menu that includes New York-style pizza, pasta and baked dishes like manicotti and parmigiana.

From the desks of Betty Nelander and Andrew J. Davis: You can give a toast to Palm Beach County's 100th birthday on Wednesday.

This month Pistache, the popular Parisian-style bistro on Clematis Street, celebrated its first anniversary.

I once read a study indicating that people were more apt to purchase a cookbook with a recipe for tarte tatin than apple pie.

The famous 8-acre barrier island home was haggled over during Norman's high-profile split from ex-wife Laura Andrassy, who is to receive $17.5 million from the sale of the home, according to a divorce settlement the couple reached last year.

Town Attorney John "Skip" Randolph must be doing something right, Mayor Jack McDonald told the Town Council last week.

The proposal is not dead, and everyone expects more rewrites. But the Martin County Future Group's push to weaken the county's growth plan suffered major setbacks last week.

In their minds, anywhere is better than Haiti. That's why the people cram themselves and their small children onto rickety boats in Bimini and Freeport, paying smugglers thousands of dollars each in the hopes of getting to the United States.

Is there a more visible sign of the business economy than those ugly "For Lease" signs pasted in the windows of once-favored restaurants? That's what greeted us recently when we turned into the Fisherman's Wharf Plaza in Jupiter and saw that Marc's Chophouse was no longer there.

Mary Garrett and Joan Tilghman of the Jupiter Island Garden Club entered the miniature division with a Shaving Brush tree and Heliconia.

A tip on April 15 lead Boca Raton authorities to a black 2007 Bentley that had been reported stolen about a week earlier.

Two men have been charged with grand theft after stealing a 2007 Aston Martin and 2007 Bentley valued at more than $300,000, Boca Raton police said.

Years ago I was taken to a fabulous little beach grill that wouldn't have been too far from Jupiter Island, FL.

Town Commissioners William Brown and Finn Caspersen will get to keep their seats without ever having to woo voters.

Louise Renee Canala and Christopher Patno Gallagher were united in marriage Dec.

In federal court testimony, Stephen C. Marcus, a direct-mail magnate from Philadelphia who kept a summer home in Boca Raton, has emerged as something of a sugar daddy to Vincent Fumo, the powerful Pennsylvania ...

Roses are finicky. Roses are hard to grow in South Florida. No one buys roses during a recession.

The pioneers who came to what now is Palm Beach County found mosquitoes, wild animals and hurricanes.

We can think of few things more tragic than a powerful state senator who's having a bad hair day on vacation.