🍊 THE WEEKLY SQUEEZE

August 6, 2024

🇺🇸 The recently promoted acting director of the U.S. Secret Service, Ronald Rowe, spent four years at the West Palm Beach Police Department in the 1990s. (The Palm Beach Post $$$)

💰 Of the 32 cities in Florida where Zillow finds the typical home to be worth more than $1 million, six are in Palm Beach County: Manlapan, Jupiter Inlet Colony, Golf, Gulf Stream, Palm Beach and Ocean Ridge. Jupiter Island in Martin County leads the list with a typical value of nearly $10 million. (Florida Trend)

🕯️ Lt. William Calley, the lone American convicted in the murder of hundreds of unarmed, unresisting Vietnamese civilians in the atrocity known as the My Lai Massacre, died on April 28 in Gainesville at age 80. Born in Miami, he enrolled in Palm Beach Junior College, as it was known at the time, but quit after a semester with failing grades. (The New York Times $$$)

🎶 Superstar soprano Anna Netrebko, shunned in the U.S. over her support of Putin, will sing at a gala for Palm Beach Opera. (The New York Times – gift link)

🚨 “Under the Radar,” a documentary from Viaplay showing on Amazon Prime, asks whether a Swedish serial killer is responsible for the 2007 Boca Mall slaying of Randi Gorenberg. (The Palm Beach Post $$$)

🏈 Suncoast High School graduate Devin Hester delivers an emotional Hall of Fame speech filled with tributes to family, coaches. (ChicagoBears.com)

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