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ArtiGras Fine Arts Festival is celebrating 37 years in Southeast Florida.  It has grown from a small, local art show to a nationwide distinguished fine arts festival drawing tens of thousands of art lovers and collectors. ArtiGras will be held President’s Day Weekend, February 19-20, 2022, in Palm Beach Gardens.

Artigras is currently accepting applications for artists on zapplication.org. ArtiGras was recently named one of the top 70 fine art festivals in the country. The art show platforms a juried exhibition of gallery-quality art from 300 artists. ArtiGras also features a Youth Art Competition, ArtiKids Kids Zone, live entertainment and much more!

ArtiGras benefits local charities.  Just in the past 10 years, ArtiGras has raised over $300,000…

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The Jupiter Island water day tour allows you to kick your feet up, sit back and relax as you enjoy a 2 1//2 hour narrated tour on the waterway.  The captain of the vessel serves as a tour guide as he explains some local history of Jupiter while making his way up the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. A highlight of the boat tour is highlighting the homes of the rich and famous that live on Jupiter Island. The tour is known as the Jupiter Island Day Tour.

Jupiter Island is known as the single most concentration of wealth in America. Jupiter Island is ideally situated 20 miles north of world-renowned Palm Beach.  Jupiter Island is located between the Atlantic Ocean and the picturesque Intracoastal waterway. Designated as the most affluent community in…

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Downtown West Palm Beach is home to  Elisabetta’s Ristorante, a 2020 Diners’ Choice top rated eatery. The first Elisabetta’s was opened in Delray Beach.  Mondays are special at the bar/restaurant called “Martini Monday”.  The Monday special is all day and offers 50% off all martinis and $2.50 Meatball Sliders. They also host a fabulous Happy Hour offering $2.00 off drinks and half priced pizzas at the bar beginning at 4pm.

Delray’s popular pizza and pasta restaurant, Elisabetta’s Ristorante, opened in Downtown West Palm Beach. Not long ago it debuted, their inner-city waterfront location, at 185 Banyan Boulevard.  The eatery is making a name for itself with the whimsical gelato cart, draping lights, retro décor and even a full-size bocce ball…

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Amazon announced last week that the company will open its first Amazon Fulfillment Center in the city of Port St. Lucie in 2022. The Amazon Fulfillment Center will be over 1 million square feet. The building will be the largest in Port St. Lucie. Amazon will employ about 500 local people, offering full-time jobs with excellent benefits beginning from day one.

Amazon will operate a traditional non-sortable fulfillment center in a 1.1-million-square-foot building to be constructed on 110 acres at Midway Business Park on West Midway Road near I-95. Clearing of the site has begun, and construction is projected to be completed by late summer or early fall next year.

Employees in Amazon’s non-sortable centers pick, pack, and ship bulky or larger-sized…

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From North Palm Beach to Palm Beach Gardens and up to Jupiter are scattered restaurants located on the waterfront.  These local waterfront restaurants are perfect for you to visit and truly relish the South Florida lifestyle and they offer everything from seafood, steaks, pasta, sushi, and much more. Or just opt for a drink and some appetizers. Whichever you choose you will surely be delighted with the warm welcome from these waterfront eateries! 

Here is a list of some of our favorite waterfront restaurants to arrive by boat or car to grab something to eat, drink and relax:

Frigate’s Waterfront Bar and Grille: North Palm Beach

Waterway Café: Palm Beach Gardens

Seasons 52: Palm Beach Gardens

The River House: Palm Beach Gardens

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The Palm Beaches is a charmed community. We are blessed by all the best that life has to offer.  Shopping in northern Palm Beach County offers a very unique experience. All who visit, shop, and reside here are offered the friendliest welcome and professional courtesy.

There are those who enjoy shopping and view it as a leisure activity and there are others who consider shopping an arduous task.  The pandemic has obliged shoppers to resort to online shopping, but now that vaccinations are available many people are heading back out to shopping centers. 

Support your local retailers and visit some of the best retail shopping areas Palm Beach County has to offer. 

The Gardens Mall
3101 PGA Boulevard
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410

Downtown at the…

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Palm Beach County students will get a reduced summer break this year, with the new school year starting August 10, 2021.  Palm Beach County residents need to be diligent of kids on the sidewalks and crossing streets to catch the bus. 

The Palm Beach County School Board approved the calendar this past Wednesday, despite concerns that it cut the summer break from the traditional 10 weeks to seven. The current school year is ending June 18, three weeks later than normal, after the school district delayed the start of the school year due to COVID-19.  

Academic performance has tumbled this past school year.  It has been a tremendous challenge for the district to educate students at home and on campus. The statistics of F’s on report cards have…

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Since its opening in 1977, the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Road in Delray Beach, has been a center for Japanese arts and culture in South Florida, with alternating expositions in its galleries. Tea ceremonies are performed monthly in the Seishinan ceremonial tea house.  Japanese long-established festivals are commemorated for the public several times a year.

The Morikami Museum Collection houses over 5,000 Japanese art objects and artifacts.  Within the collection is a 500-piece collection of customary tea ceremony items. More than 200 textile pieces and recent fine art acquisitions, as well as 200 acres that surround the Morikami museum buildings.

There are sprawling Japanese gardens with strolling paths…

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For an inexpensive excursion take the kids to the Palm Beach Zoo during the month of August.  The zoo will be offering free admission for kids 12 and younger during the month of August. This offer, two free child admissions per full-price adult ticket, is valid when they are accompanied by a paying adult.  Children under 3 are always free.

The August special at the Palm Beach Zoo includes admission to the Splash Pad. The Palm Beach Zoo is located at 301 Summit Blvd, West Palm Beach.  Parking is free.

Masks are required for anyone, including children 2 and older, who is not fully vaccinated in these areas:

-        Topics Cafe

-        Gift shop 

-        Carousel ride

-        Restrooms

-        Zoo administration offices

 Palm…

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Lighthouses are wondrous things, like the historic Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse, beautiful, nonetheless incredibly useful. They serve two significant purposes, first, they serve as a navigation aid and secondly, to warn ships and boats of dangerous areas. August 7, 2021, is National Lighthouse Day.  If you are in the Jupiter area head on over to the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse and Museum.

Celebrate how these scenic, historic structures guided travelers throughout the centuries. In 1789, the U.S. Congress passed an act securing the protection of all lighthouses under federal support. While lighthouse technology has evolved over time, lighthouses were once widely used to mark dangerous reefs, shorelines, and harbors.

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