Stet News🏢 Riviera Beach Mayor Ronnie Felder suspended City Manager Jonathan Evans for 10 days last week without consulting the City Council. The council asked Police Chief Michael Coleman to fill in but he declined to give up his chief’s position for the 10-day appointment. (WPTV and The Palm Beach Post $$$)
On the 10th anniversary of the Ice Bucket Challenge to defeat ALS, the widower of author and former Palm Beach Post reporter Susan Spencer-Wendel tells the story of Susan’s confrontation and ultimate embrace of her diagnosis with the terminal disease. (The Palm Beach Post $$$)
Former Lake Worth Beach Commissioner Gary Brian “Bo” Allen died Sept. 7. He was 67. He and his wife, Erin, opened the city’s first bed and breakfast, The Mango Inn. (Arrangements)
⚖️ A Florida judge has ruled in a lawsuit brought by The Washington Post that Gov. Ron DeSantis can’t hide the cost of his travel from the public but travel security plans are off limits. (Tallahassee Democrat)
🍔 Fort Lauderdale-based BurgerFi is closing nearly two dozen stores nationwide, including three restaurants in Palm Beach County — BurgerFi eateries at 7959 W. Atlantic Ave. and 6230 W. Indiantown Road, and an Anthony Coal Fired Pizza at 1900 Okeechobee Blvd. (South Florida Business Journal $$$)
📚 The Read Together 2024 book, announced last week, is “Remarkably Bright Creatures!” The Read Together finale will be 6 pm Monday, Nov. 18, at the Duncan Theatre at Palm Beach State College, Lake Worth campus, with the author, Shelby Van Pelt. (The Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County)
