Tree City USA

For at least an afternoon, it felt like a slice of mid-America had plopped down in Coconut Creek with the First Annual Fall Harvest Festival. There were falling leaves, a pumpkin patch, flag football, an arts and crafts tent, food trucks, bounce houses and a compelling simulation of an extraction of an accident victim. The

The outcome of this story might be better than winning the golden ticket in “Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.” Fred Meltzer not only got the job of running Hoffman’s Chocolate, but found love, too.  Meltzer started his career about as far from the world of chocolate as one might imagine, working for a boutique

Broward County has had its share of colorful characters as sheriff.  In 1927, Sheriff Paul Bryan was arrested on federal bootlegging charges. Walter Clark served from 1933 to 1951, but admitted to the federal Kefauver Commission that he profited from illegal gambling. Nick Navarro gained national attention in the 1980s by starring in the first

It’s a big change for people like Dev Motwani. He looked out a window at the Atlantic Hotel & Spa after an Urban Land Institute seminar and talked about how he grew up playing on the beach where his family owned a collection of vintage hotels. Now, he’s part of a group developing the Paramount

For decades, Butch Buchholz was known for promoting tennis on Key Biscayne, but now he’s on his third year of building community support for the WGC-Cadillac World Golf Championship at Trump National Doral Miami. The Sony Open on Key Biscayne, which Buchholz founded, has done a great job of letting the community know it’s coming

The Village of Pinecrest was named a Tree City USA by the Arbor Day Foundation in honor of its commitment to effective urban forest management. This is the seventh consecutive year that Pinecrest receives this distinction. Cleaner air, improved storm water management, energy savings and increased property values and commercial activity are among the benefits