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New Public Plaza in Old Town
Pompano! Magazine's City Beat Reporter Marie Puleo. She can be emailed at puleo.marie@gmail.com By Marie Puleo The Pompano Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) is preparing to create a public plaza in Old Town that will be used as a gathering place for the Old Town Untapped craft brew and arts ...

ATLANTIC BRIDGE ALMOST FINISHED
By Danielle Charbonneau On Monday, Dec. 11, 2017, Pompano Beach City Commissioners and company officials from Currie Sowards Aguila Architects [CSA Architects] and Burkhardt Construction, convened in front of a public crowd at The Foundry restaurant to host a festive groundbreaking ceremony announcing plans for the new Atlantic Boulevard Bridge. ...

New Restaurant Planned on Intracoastal
Pompano! Magazine's City Beat Reporter Marie Puleo. She can be emailed at puleo.marie@gmail.com By Marie Puleo A new waterfront restaurant is being planned for a site along the east side of the Intracoastal, between the Atlantic Boulevard Bridge and the Sands Harbor Resort & Marina. The owners of Taha Marine ...

THE BEAUTY OF BOGOTA
By Danielle Charbonneau & Richard Rosser Only a three and a half hour plane ride from Fort Lauderdale exists a bustling urban metropolis at the base of a picturesque green mountain. At over 8,000 feet in elevation, Bogotá sits high. Its historic urban center feels European — small alleys, Spanish colonial ...

Pompano Beach Rescue Ride-a-Long
By Danielle Charbonneau It’s 1:53am when the alarm bell sounds. I listen carefully to its pitch and pattern — there’s different tones to denote if the call has come in for the fire engine, the rescue engine or both. This time the three-tone pitch signals for rescue, which is my ...

Offshore Drilling Still Possibility
Dennica Worrell is an environmental reporter for Pompano! Magazine. Contact her at dennicapearl@gmail.com. By Dennica Worrell At a City Commission meeting on July 24 the City of Pompano Beach unanimously passed a resolution expressing opposition to offshore oil and gas drilling and seismic airgun blasting on Florida’s Atlantic coast. In ...

Trees Threatened by Bike Path
Lighthouse Point Magazine's City Beat Reporter Marie Puleo. She can be emailed at puleo.marie@gmail.com BY MARIE PULEO City officials have been working to stave off the possible negative impacts of a bike lane project that is being proposed along Federal Highway from Sample Road to the Palm Beach County line. ...

Fly Fishing in the Bolivian Amazon
BY DEREK ULBRICH Your native guides, using their wooden push poles, steady the dug-out canoe next to the stream’s bank. You jump out onto a long, moss-covered boulder, fly rod in hand, and scramble upstream. Your guide is ahead of you, elevated on another mossy rock. He is squatting, with ...

Pompano Considers Naming Rights
Pompano! Magazine's City Beat Reporter Marie Puleo. She can be emailed at puleo.marie@gmail.com By Marie Puleo In an effort to generate non-property tax revenues to help fund its operations and programs, the City is considering selling naming rights and corporate sponsorships for a number of its assets. In September, the ...

COMING UP COSTUMES
By Danielle Charbonneau The day I visited CEO Marilynn Wick at Costume World’s newly expanded warehouse in Pompano Beach, she had received a message from three-time Tony award winning actress Glenn Close who was desperate to find the dress she wore in the 1980 Broadway production of “Barnum.” Close collects ...