BOYNTON BEACH — Five years ago, Boynton Beach activist Tory Orr proposed to city officials that he be allowed to organize Boynton’s first community event to memorialize Juneteenth, also known as “Freedom Day. At the time, the historical date wasn’t a federal holiday. This year, the city held its fifth Juneteenth celebration with a gathering […]
DELRAY BEACH — A 44-year-old Boynton Beach woman was killed Sunday morning while running, when she was struck by a car that traveled off the road at Florida’s Turnpike west of Delray Beach, police said. Caryn Lynn Chomsky was running eastbound on Atlantic Avenue’s north sidewalk near the Turnpike just after 7 a.m. Sunday when […]
DELRAY BEACH — A 44-year-old Boynton Beach woman was killed Sunday morning while running, when she was struck by a car that traveled off the road at Florida’s Turnpike west of Delray Beach, police said. Caryn Lynn Chomsky was running eastbound on Atlantic Avenue’s north sidewalk near the Turnpike just after 7 a.m. Sunday when […]
BOYNTON BEACH — An arbitrator has ruled that the City of Boynton Beach should rehire a police officer who it fired following the December 2021 death of a 13-year-old boy. The arbitrator, James W. Mastriani, ruled that the city established that Mark Sohn violated the police department’s pursuit policy, but did not prove it had […]
Congratulations, class of 2024! It’s that time again for the sound of “Pomp and Circumstance” as high school seniors at Boynton Beach Community High School collect their diplomas at the school’s graduation ceremony, held Saturday, May 18 at the South Florida Fairgrounds. This is the third year that graduations are back to normal since the COVID-19 pandemic began. […]
WEST PALM BEACH — A jury has found a man who fled to Maryland after the November 2020 fatal shooting of his girlfriend guilty of second-degree murder in the Boynton Beach woman’s death. Jurors voted unanimously on March 21 to convict Shevon Green, 42, in the death of 46-year-old Akilah Hill. Circuit Judge Jeffrey Gillen […]
A family plot at Eternal Light Memorial Gardens in Boynton Beach has a stranger buried in it. While not the fault of the soul trying to rest in peace, the cemetery double sold the space and must move the remains, Stanton Schwartz and his wife Susan Gad Schwartz say in a lawsuit. Eternal Light wants […]