🍊 THE WEEKLY SQUEEZE

December 9, 2024

The Juno Beach Town Council, missing recently resigned member Jacob Rosengarten, deadlocked 2-2 Dec. 6 over its selection of a town manager and then deadlocked 2-2 over its approach to filling the vacant Town Council seat. The town manager finalists are Jay Boodheshwar, manager in Naples and former deputy manager in Palm Beach, and Darren Coldwell, manager in Page, Ariz. The council next meets on Dec. 17. (Rosengarten’s resignation speech in Stet News)

The town of Palm Beach held its election caucus Dec. 3. Mayor Danielle Moore and Council Members Julie Araskog in Group 1 and Ted Cooney in Group 2 were nominated. No one filed to run against them, meaning they were elected without any votes cast. (Stet News)

​​The Quantum Foundation has contributed $500,000 to the Black history museum and research center planned in West Palm Beach’s historic Coleman Park neighborhood. The Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties is leading the fund-raising drive to transform the former Roosevelt High School site. (Stet News partner WLRN)

Palm Beach Gardens native Nadine Sierra, 36, sang the French National Anthem at the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris Saturday.  (The Palm Beach Post $$$)

Wellington snowbird Harry Benson recalls some of his most memorable moments photographing The Beatles in a new Martin Scorsese-produced documentary about the band’s first trip to the United States. (ByJoeCapozzi.com

A review of the blockbuster exhibition on boxing at the Norton Museum of Art, which includes four drawings by Muhammad Ali. (The New York Times gift link)

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