Cinco de Mayo not another word for St. Patrick’s Day
By Samantha Mellman This Sunday on May 5th whether you are young or old, have a big or small family and would like to experience an event that truly captures the spirit of Mexico, visit the Cinco de Mayo festival More...
Musical Helper Drums out Business Plan Competition to Earn National Spotlight
By Samantha Mellman Fifteen middle and high school students from the Young Entrepreneurs Academy waited two days in anticipation recently to hear who would win the Business Plan Competition. “And a drum roll please!,” More...
A Pageant that’s not all about the Glitz & Glamour
By Samantha Mellman When people think about children’s beauty pageants, some may recall that crazy show on TLC ‘Toddler’s & Tiaras’. On that show children and parents alike throw temper tantrums and More...
What is the Meaning of Passover?
By Samantha Mellman As a 22 year-old American Jew, what does an ancient tale of the Jewish people’s exodus from Egypt mean in today’s world? In a fast pace society with unlimited internet access, cell More...
New Traffic Patterns on Palmetto Pk. Rd. in effect on March 5th
By Samantha Mellman On Palmetto Park Rd., just west of Boca Raton Blvd. a traffic sign states, “New Traffic Patterns, Starts 3/5”. It has been placed to inform citizens from 9:00PM-6:00AM the west bound lanes More...
Girl Scouts: Selling Cookies while Teaching Life Lessons
By: Samantha Mellman It’s the most wonderful time of the year – at least for those with a sweet tooth – as area Girl Scout troops bring out the colorful boxes of cookies to sell. Three weeks out More...
Girl Scouts: Selling Cookies while Teaching Life Lessons
By: Samantha Mellman Three weeks out of the year we see our local Girl Scouts’ friendly faces selling those delectable cookies we have all come to know and cannot resist. The biggest question we may face when More...
Hobnobbing with the Big Ballas at the Big Game
By: Samantha Mellman Super Bowl Sunday is the biggest day of the year in sports, and that means a big day of festivities – partying and watching the game from somewhere other than their couches, not worrying about More...
Bank Goes After Squatter in $2.5M Mansion
By: Samantha Mellman Andre de Paula Barbosa days living in a foreclosed waterfront mansion may be coming to an end soon as Bank of America is suing to evict him, officials said. “There is a certain legal process More...
‘Honoring those who served BBQ’
By: Samantha Mellman Cpl. Burt Richards says to me, “Students recite the Pledge of Allegiance in class every day, and do not know who wrote it and they think Pearl Harbor is a resort in the Bahamas.” When I More...
