Former and possibly future governor Charlie Crist rallied the faithful at the LGBTQ+ Get Out the Vote (GOTV) center in Wilton Manors on Nov. 2.

Citizens rally outside Wilton Manors City Hall

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

The holidays are here. It’s a time of giving, but it’s also a time for competing — for the best festive lights and decorations.

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

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.

Development was a consistent storyline throughout 2021 as Wilton Manors grappled with changes to its land use and zoning codes.

A standing-room-only crowd packed the Wilton Manors City Commission meeting room and spilled out into the anteroom.

(SS) Even if bars are not allowed to reopen next week here in South Florida like the rest of the state, Hunters Nightclub Wilton Manors figured out a work-around.

A deep dive into the Wilton Manors election results reveal the city’s two precincts to be some of the bluest in Broward County.

Don D’Arminio, a member of the Wilton Manors Planning & Zoning Board, has filed the necessary paperwork to campaign for city commission.

Delicious drinks, fierce makeup, and O-69! Hamburger Mary’s is hosting Drag Bingo Night this Sunday, Oct. 24.

Another board member is resigning from Pride Fort Lauderdale. 

(SS) A Broward County grand jury has indicted a homeless man in the 2002 killing of a Wilton Manors retiree.

Sometimes, two halves don’t make a whole. 

The revolution of digital technology over the past 15 years has given us music that doesn’t degrade from the moment it’s recorded to when it’s played, no matter how many times you listen.

More time and heightened tension over this year’s election may have combined to increase early voter turnout this year.

Elijah Manley is not giving up.

Alejandro Acosta has worked for Equality Florida out of his home in Fort Lauderdale for a while now. But Acosta, Equality Florida’s HIV project coordinator, is glad to be in his organization’s new office in Wilton Manors.

As bleak as 2020 has been, the Equality Garden Club is creating beauty at Wilton Manors Elementary School.

The Equality Park Garden Club will proudly dedicate its garden on Aug. 20 at 7:30 p.m. The public is invited to attend. This special dedication is years in the making.

The beads, the parade, and all the Pride is back! After a year off due to the COVID crisis the Stonewall Pride Parade & Street Festival is back this weekend.

As an exclusive for my SFGN readers, I wanted to share the initial output from my 2016 Broward’s Real Estate Yearbook. You may recall, last year I decided to roll out the first of what I planned to be annual reviews of pricing, sales and inventory trends in 35 East Broward neighborhoods. Nothing like it had ever been done before. Nothing has been done like it since.

Whoosh. That’s what Nicholas Coppola vividly remembers as the truck barreled past him, after striking three pedestrians, and then careening across the road into a plant nursery.

From population to land size, Wilton Manors is a very small city. But there is an outsized amount of love, concern, and passion for the island enclave.

Island City Stage, an LGBT-centric regional theater company based in Wilton Manors, celebrated its 10th-anniversary last season, despite the challenges of the pandemic.

Zoetic Stage, the regional theater in residence at Miami’s Arsht Center, presents the world premiere of Michael McKeever’s family drama, “American Rhapsody,” Jan. 12 – 29. McKeever’s husband Stuart Meltzer directs. 

(SS) The family and friends of a Wilton Manors man killed after being run over by a vehicle that never stopped issued an emotional plea Thursday for witnesses to come forward.

It’s been two weeks since a gay Minnesota man was killed in a hit-and-run accident in Fort Lauderdale, and his friends and family are still searching for answers about his final hours.

The tragic hit-and-run that killed two children in Wilton Manors last month has renewed calls for greater traffic enforcement on State Road 845.