Final approval could come at Dec. 9 meeting

Wilton Manors is opening its commission meetings to the general public again.

Wilton Manors has spent a considerable amount of time and money to lay out a plan for the city’s future.

Talk about burning the midnight oil. Tuesday’s commission meeting lasted five hours and 37 minutes and did not end until after midnight.

Talk about burning the midnight oil. Tuesday’s commission meeting lasted five hours and 37 minutes and did not end until after midnight.

After asking Wilton Manors Elementary School and Somerset Academy Village charter school to supply a wish list of items list for up to $1,500 each, to be funded by the city, the commission voted 3-2 to reduce the amount of money allocated to Somerset. Mayor Gary Resnick and Commissioner Julie Carson dissented.

A lot of change has come to Wilton Manors since 2016, some noticeable, some behind the scenes.

Working for a city is not a 9-5 job. Problems from sewage to noise to bad auto accidents can happen anytime and everyone from utility workers to police to elected officials field calls all hours of the day and night.

A Wilton Manors man is missing and help is needed to bring him home.

In my last column, I took my 10 best community candidate areas here in East Broward and appended some statistical information about the number of single family homes within 15 minutes’ walk of the “community center,” and provided data about the values of those homes.

According to the Bible, the Children of Israel wandered for forty years before they reached their Promised Land. This year, Congregation Etz Chaim turns 40, making it the third-oldest LGBT group in South Florida (The Sunshine Cathedral is 42 and the Stonewall National Museum and Archives is 41).

Rabbi Noah Kitty of Congregation Etz Chaim is running for the Wilton Manors Commission.

The mother of a man on trial for the murder of a Wilton Manors couple has died, adding to an already complicated case.

A Broward County magistrate ruled a Wilton Manors sidewalk adjacent to Lazy Lake is being negatively impacted by overgrown vegetation from the property at Northeast 21st Court.

Broward County is seeking volunteers to help remove debris and install native plants at Cypress Stand 92. Located on the South Fork of the Middle River on Wilton Drive, the undeveloped park land is owned by the county. Wilton Manors officials have expressed a desire to possibly take control of the 1.43-acre park but neither the county nor the city have taken action yet.

Pickleball, tennis, sex, and arrests. Two men were arrested in Hagen Park in Wilton Manors and accused of having sex acts in public.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — One of the same-sex couples who had challenged Texas’ constitutional ban on gay marriage has finally tied the knot.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Susan Hrostowski remembers when Mississippi passed its law in 2000 banning same-sex couples from adopting children.

Courtyard Café has spent the last week scrambling to come back from a minor disaster.

South Florida, and Broward County especially, are the hottest of COVID hot spots.

In early May, the Wilton Manors Police Department arrested a man fleeing a crime scene who jumped the fence into the police compound at city hall. It was an easy arrest of a man Chief Paul O’Connell described as “not the brightest bulb.” Unfortunately, the chief also said it was part of an increase in certain types of crimes in the city.

South Florida audiences will be treated to a unique interpretation of traditional flamenco dance when Flamenco Festival Miami returns to the Arsht Center this month. 

Fire investigators are trying to determine the cause of an early morning blaze in a restaurant on North Federal Highway.

Voters in District 94 chose Daryl Campbell to represent them in Florida’s House of Representatives.

When you think of a wreath you likely think of green branches with some holly berries sticking out through a festive ribbon.

The possible decriminalization of marijuana in Wilton Manors won’t result in much of a savings in police time. That’s according to a report issued by the Wilton Manors Police Department.

It was the evening of Jan. 22 when artist Nara Rosa got a call that her mural had been defaced. A wall located at The Yard in Wilton Manors, what was once filled with paisley and floral prints was now covered over with silver bubble letters.

A Kentucky clerk's office turned away a gay couple seeking a marriage license on Thursday, defying a federal judge's order that dismissed her argument involving religious freedom.

The release of a land use study for Oakland Park Boulevard and Andrews Avenue has Westside residents demanding commissioners go beyond research.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is moving forward to expand the “Don’t Say Gay” law through 12th grade without legislative approval.