Hometown News and Views

By Phyllis J. Neuberger
Pelican staff
In an almost seamless transition, Doreen Gauthier has handed off a smooth as silk functioning library to the accommodating and very capable Christy Keyes.
Gauthier has guided this city’s independent library from a small store in a strip center to a technically savvy, computerized state of the art library.
Keyes is moving it into the future with outreach events like live story...

By Judy Wilson
Pelican staff
Deerfield Beach – Mayor Jean Robb presented several of her initiatives this week, saying she would ask for formal action at future commission meetings. Top of her list is establishment of a charter review committee. Robb said some changes now allowed by ordinance should be given to the electorate and other things need to be eliminated or changed.  Robb has chaired several charter review co...

By Judy Vik
Pelican Staff
 Oakland Park – Commissioners in this city have had a change of heart and are revisiting a recent decision to destroy a 40-foot live oak tree to make way for a parking lot.
A group intent on saving the tree gathered last Saturday and hung a yellow ribbon about the old oak tree, prompting commissioners to discuss the matter again this week.
The previous commission had approved a site...

By Judy Wilson
Pelican staff
Deerfield Beach – Nine veterans from the Goldcoast Chapter of the Disabled Americans Veterans [DAV] have dedicated themselves to decoding the language of the Veteran’s Administration.
It is a monumental task.
Not only because as Navy vet Elliott Roth said, “It is the most confusing, disjointed manual I’ve ever seen, but that’s because the rules are constantly cha...

By Anne Siren
Pelican staff
Pompano Beach - This city’s beach area is having a “coming-out” party tonight that will rival any other event that has taken place on the east side of town for years. And the party moves from west to east.
Redevelopment at the beach has been a project of the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency, or CRA. The big deal is that most of the work on the beach, Atlantic Boulevard...

By Judy Vik
Pelican staff
Lauderdale-By-The-Sea – Town commissioners on Tuesday authorized artist Laurie Huck to create a “Coral Arch” metal sculpture to highlight the western gateway to town.
Cost of the artwork is $93,025. The 14-foot sculpture on a 3.75-foot base, featuring flying fish and a turtle, will be installed in the first town parking lot east of the Intracoastal Waterway bridge on the south sid...