2018
DEERFIELD PIER HISTORY
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_images_carousel images=”6111,6112,6113,6114″ img_size=”full” autoplay=”yes”][vc_column_text] By Sally J. Ling He would come to the pier about noon every day, walk midway […]
Deal Reached for LHP Police
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Marie Puleo At its Aug. 28 meeting, the City Commission approved a new three-year collective-bargaining agreement with the […]
YACHT CLUB PLANS WORKSHOP
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Marie Puleo A special workshop concerning plans for major redevelopment of the Lighthouse Point Yacht Club will be […]
SILVER TSUNAMI: Is Broward Ready?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”6027″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text] By Danielle Charbonneau The number of Americans ages 65 and older is set to explode from more than […]
POMPANO APPROVES 100 YEAR FLOOD MAP
[vc_row][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”5983″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes”][vc_column_text] By Dennica Worrell The City of Pompano Beach will share costs with Broward County and nine […]
URBAN ADVENTURE: Sur la Table
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Danielle Charbonneau There is a comical meme out there that captures my recent culinary spirit well. A few […]
Recycling to Re-Start Sept. 3
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Danielle Charbonneau On Aug. 16, the Deerfield Beach City Commission approved a new contract with Waste Management, which […]
Pompano Beach’s New Innovation District
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] [metaslider id=”5273″] By Marie Puleo As Pompano’s beachside redevelopment continues to unfold – with the opening of the Beach […]
Dentist Shares Reasons to Smile
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Jaline Boccuzzi, DMD, AAACD As a dentist, I know a thing or two about smiles. After all, in […]
Volunteer With LHP Recreation Department
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] BY JULIE RADLAUER-DOERFLER “The recreation department is always looking for volunteers to coach sports, you don’t even need to have […]
LOCAL CITY GUIDE
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”4622″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https://pointpubs.com/cityguide/”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Point! Publishing’s CITY GUIDE! is your ultimate source for all things local. The city guide […]
NEWS: Elections, Sea-“Weed” & St. Martin
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Jeff Levine After years of stability, we are going to have a LOT of new faces on the […]
NEW POMPANO DEVELOPMENTS
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Danielle Charbonneau [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] BOUTIQUE & CHIC: Arya Oceanside Residences LOCATION:336 Sunset Dr., between the Intracoastal and the ocean SUMMARY: […]
Streets To Be Renamed Intracoastal Dr.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Marie Puleo At its June 26 meeting, the City Commission passed a resolution to rename parts of NE […]
Deerfield Suspends Recycling Program
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] STORY FROM CITY OF DEERFIELD BEACH PRESS RELEASE DEERFIELD BEACH, FL – Due to the rising costs for recyclable processing […]
Pompano’s Settlement on CRA Lawsuit
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Marie Puleo The City of Pompano Beach has been in litigation with Broward County for the past four […]
Field Named for John Trudel
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] BY MARIE PULEO The city has honored John Trudel, who served as the Parks and Recreation Director of Lighthouse […]
Fire Chief Awarded for Diversity
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Marie Puleo Pompano Beach Fire Chief John Jurgle was recently recognized by the Professional Firefighters Association of South […]
Pompano to Hire New In-House CRA
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Marie Puleo The City of Pompano Beach is in the process of hiring employees to run its new […]
INDOOR ADRENALINE ACTIVITIES
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Danielle Charbonneau If you’re anything like me, you’ve been getting rather stir-crazy with this stubborn and incessant rainy […]
Father’s Day Lessons
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Danielle Charbonneau I was born about an hour before the start of Father’s Day on June 20, 1987. […]
WORLDS OCEAN DAY | WAYS TO CELEBRATE
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] June 8 marks World Oceans Day. Marches in Washington D.C. and simultaneous events across the nation will honor the […]
LHP Reaches Pension Agreement
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Marie Puleo Lighthouse Point firefighters have accepted a new labor contract presented by the city at a negotiation […]
Pompano Beach’s G.O. Bond Projects
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Marie Puleo In the special municipal election held last March, Pompano Beach residents voted to authorize the issuance […]
New Property for LHP Firestation
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”5105″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes”][vc_column_text] By Danielle Charbonneau Mayor Glenn Troast announced May 21 that a verbal agreement and letter of […]
Pompano Paddleboard Superstar
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URBAN ADVENTURE: Learning to Scuba
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”4916″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text] By Danielle Charbonneau I’ve been known to keep a pretty exhaustive bucket list. Two activities on this […]
LHP Proposes $15 Million Bond
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”4910″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes”][vc_column_text] By Marie Puleo Since February, the City Commission has been discussing a possible $15 million bond […]
LHP First Responders Dispute Pensions
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”4904″ img_size=”1000px” add_caption=”yes”][vc_column_text] By Marie Puleo Over the past couple of months, the city’s first responders have been voicing […]
A Story of Transformation Through Art
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][metaslider id=”4871″][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The City of Pompano Beach’s electric utility boxes are being transformed into colorful works of art thanks to […]
Cancer Survivor Attends Prom
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][metaslider id=”4846″][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Fancy gowns. Tuxedos. Boutonnières. Limousinesand dancing. Prom is a rite of passage for most American teenagers, but for […]
Hammondville Road Officially Renamed
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”4843″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes”][vc_column_text] By Marie Puleo For decades, the main thoroughfare in the city’s northwest district has had the […]
Pompano Set to Sue Over Opioid Epidemic
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Marie Puleo Pompano Beach is suing about a dozen major pharmaceutical companies, joining nearly 200 other governments around […]
Soccer Complex Coming to Pompano Beach
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][metaslider id=”3861″][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Marie Puleo The City of Pompano Beach is set to become a center for soccer development in […]
Coming: Charlotte J. Burrie Civic Center
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][metaslider id=”3860″][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Marie Puleo After years of delays, the Charlotte J. Burrie Civic Center is about to be built […]
DOWN TO BUSINESS: Truline Seawalls
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”4637″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes”][vc_column_text] By Colton Wooten Truline, a seawall construction company located in Naples, bills itself as innovative on […]
URBAN ADVENTURE: Painting with a Twist
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”4635″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes”][vc_column_text] By Danielle Charbonneau | Photos by Jeff Graves It started with a rainbow — first a […]
INVESTIGATION: Pompano-based Kalashnikov
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text](Washington) On April 11, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22) sent a letter to the U.S. Department of the Treasury requesting information […]
LHP first in state to utilize new gun laws
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Marie Puleo On March 14, Lighthouse Point became the first city in Florida to utilize the state’s new […]
Pompano Bans Dispensaries
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Marie Puleo The City Commission voted in January to adopt an ordinance prohibiting medical marijuana dispensaries within the […]
URBAN ADVENTURE: Deerfield Island
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”4516″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes”][vc_column_text] By Danielle Charbonneau On a particularly chilly morning in January, I met Ira Wechterman at Sullivan […]
Edgy Theater Company’s Future in Question
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Colton Wooten The playbill for “Reservoir Dolls,” which the Outré Theater Company opened at the Pompano Beach Cultural […]
Pompano Gets Tough on Trash Dumping
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Marie Puleo Pompano Beach has joined forces with Broward County Crime Stoppers to combat a proliferation of chronic […]
A Commentary on RMA Resignation
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] BY JEFF LEVINE | Pompano! magazine’s Editor at Large, and a longtime Pompano Beach Resident In a move that […]
RMA Terminates Contract with Pompano
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Marie Puleo The firm that has managed the Pompano Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) since 2009 announced that […]
Project History! Tale of Two Churches
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Sally Ling First Zion Missionary Baptist Church As Henry Flagler’s Florida East Coast Railroad pushed south toward Miami […]
Pompano’s New Library Opens
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Marie Puleo The long-awaited opening of Pompano’s new state-of-the art library took place last month, culminating a years-long […]
URBAN ADVENTURE: Kiteboarding
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Danielle Charbonneau Rick remembers the first time he saw a kiteboarder. He was sitting on the beach at […]
Father of Digital Art
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Danielle Charbonneau When Boca Raton-based artist Laurence Gartel began exploring digital art in 1975 as an eager 19-year-old […]
ADVENTURES IN SHARED INDULGENCE
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Danielle Charbonneau In a world where we retreat to our own corners of the home, plugged into our own […]