Located just off Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach is the Pineapple Grove Arts District. Here at the Pineapple Grove Arts District, you will feel the friendly ambience that makes downtown Delray Beach such a joy to visit.  Pineapple Grove is home to galleries, shops, restaurants, the Arts Garage and Artist's Alley.

The Pineapple Grove Arts District, 2nd Avenue, Delray is speckled with murals and sculptures.  It is colorful, lively, and fun. The district is eclectic.  The charming streetscapes are decoratively lit and filled with and a varied blend of unique shops and amazing boutiques. This is a great place to find the latest designer fashions or find inspiration to decorate your home or office.

Visit Delray Beach’s “downtown” and meet the…

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The Loggerhead Marinelife Center announced recently that they will continue their partnership with the Palm Beach fashion icon and line, Lilly Pulitzer for their weekly Beach Clean-Ups on Juno Beach. The year-round sponsorship will include hosting specialty events throughout Palm Beach County Lilly Pulitzer retail stores and highlight two local and late pioneering women Lilly Pulitzer and Loggerhead Marinelife Center’s Eleanor Fletcher.

Every Saturday morning, the Loggerhead Marinelife Center hosts its weekly Beach Cleanup along the beach near the center. The weekly beach cleanups provide a fun opportunity for locals to help keep our beautiful beaches and towns clean of debris and litter. The cleanups are important now more than ever. Beginning in…

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With the summer coming to an end for students in Palm Beach County and Martin County, the state of Florida is having their Back to School Sales Tax Holiday again this year.

Beginning this Saturday, July 31st through Monday, August 9th, shoppers will be exempt from sales tax in the state of Florida for certain school supplies and items. The Back to School Sales Tax exemption will be automatically deducted at checkout when purchasing qualifying items.

Items Include:

  • School Supplies (Less than $15 dollars per item)- pens, pencils, erasers, notebooks, glue, calculators, and rulers.
  • Clothing, Footwear, and certain accessories (Less than $60 dollars per item)- includes clothing, shoes, wallets, and bags.
  • The first $1000 of the sales price of…

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Fred Astaire Dance Studios are in cities throughout the United States and internationally.  One is here locally in Wellington. The dance studios are required to maintain the highest standards of excellence through our International Dance Council and Fred Astaire Dance Studios curriculum certification. 

With the opening of the first Fred Astaire Studio on Park Avenue in New York City, Fred Astaire brought his immense talent out of the glamour of Hollywood and onto the dance floors of America and the world.

Fred Astaire once said, “Some people seem to think that good dancers are born. All the good dancers I have known have been taught or trained. To me, dancing has always been fun.”  With the opening of the first Fred Astaire Studio on Park Avenue…

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Harbourside Place located at 200 North U.S. Highway One, Jupiter is hosting a classic car show on July 24, 2021, at 2:00 p.m. Check out some of the world’s most unique cars at the classic car show, hosted by Southeast Classics.  A classic car is an older car, typically 20 years or older.

The shared premise is of an older car of sufficient historical interest to be collectible and worth restoring or preserving rather than scrapping. Classic cars are a subset of a broader category of "collector cars", which includes both restored classic cars vehicles and newer exotic vehicles.  Classic cars are known as antique cars.  Automobiles manufactured before 1980 are called classic car.  Vehicles manufactured pre-World War II are labeled vintage cars.

The…

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The “Sunshine State” consistently endures a leading choice in many of the “best states to retire in” lists.  Southeast Florida offers boundless opportunities from upscale beachfront living to casual waterfront options. Choose from Atlantic Ocean deep sea fishing charters or lazy days paddling on a kayak through Jonathon Dickinson State Park. Imagine endless days of tennis, golf or sunbathing at the local beach.  

Market Watch of the Wall Street Journal named Florida as the seventh best state for retirement.  The reasons it remains high on the list:  no income tax!  Additionally, the property tax protection for full time residents against increases.  

Yahoo Finance concurs, citing MoneyRates.com “Best States to Retire in Now”.  Southeast Florida…

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This upcoming Sunday is a day to indulge in your favorite ice cream flavors and sundaes to celebrate National Ice Cream Day. National Ice Cream Day has been celebrated since 1984, when President Reagan declared the third Sunday of July as National Ice Cream Day and he also declared the month of July as National Ice Cream Month.

Sunday’s weather is expected to be in the high 80’s which makes it a perfect summer day to head out to one of your favorite local ice cream shops to celebrate the day. Many ice cream shops and ice cream chains are giving away free ice cream and free treats to celebrate National Ice Cream Day.

National Ice Cream Freebies and Deals:

Baskin-Robbins: Get a free ice cream scented kinetic sand in chocolate mint or strawberry…

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The Cottages of Lake Worth permits locals and visitors to get a behind-the-scenes feel of historic Key West-style cottages, while also experiencing the hidden beauty of Lake Worth. The municipality has a cottage heritage that is distinctive to South Florida. There are about 1,000 cottages in Lake Worth – many on 25-foot-wide lots, under 1,000 square feet and built prior to 1939.

On an Inside the Cottages Home Tour, guests can check out more than 10 of these whimsical cottages, as well as get the opportunity to chat with the welcoming homeowners who embody living large in small spaces.

The Cottages of Lake Worth Beach has a hard-coffee cover coffee table book that celebrates the historic cottages that pepper Lake Worth.  The cottages walking tour…

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Earlier this week, The Loggerhead Marinelife Center released two sea turtles back into the ocean. The double release was the first public sea turtle release since February of 2020. Hundreds of people gathered along the beach near the center to witness two sea turtles be released back into the ocean after spending months at the center for recovery and rehabilitation.

The sea turtle release event was Wednesday, July 14th at 9:30 am. The two sea turtles released were named Big Chase and Pike. Pike is a subadult loggerhead sea turtle patient that was found near the Juno Beach Pier a few months back. Big Chase is a male loggerhead sea turtle patient that was found by biologists from the Inwater Research Group at FPL’s St. Lucie site.  Big Chase and Pike…

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Let us talk turtles! Although verbal communication is less evident among sea turtles compared to freshwater turtles and tortoises. Sea turtles have existed for more than 120 million years.  In 1999, researchers definitively recorded sounds from sea turtles.  This was the first time we learned that turtles talk (okay, communicate).  Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach wants to introduce humans to the way sea turtles communicate.

Learn the basics of sea turtles and the way they speak! Sea turtles start making their first sound before they hatch. The sounds can be described as chirps, click, grunts and “complex hybrid tones.” Scientists assumed that the sounds that they made while they were still in their shell triggered the others in the group…

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