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Former Palm Beach Mayor Gail Coniglio was appointed to the Planning & Zoning Commission Tuesday, filling one of two open seats on the seven-member board.
Mary Robosson
Special to the Daily News
More than a year ago, when the weight of the COVID-19 pandemic began to be felt, the Palm Beach Civic Association acted swiftly to keep our members, directors and employees safe.
Events were canceled or postponed. A remote work policy was enacted for our staff. From March 13, 2020, through our annual meeting on April 30, an entire year passed without any in-person gatherings. All internal meetings were conducted electronically.
Yet we managed to make it through a global pandemic, never once hitting the pause button, to serve our community in ways like we had never done before.
Jodie Wagner
Palm Beach Daily News
A season in which the novel coronavirus pandemic shared headlines with the 45th president of the United States has come to a close on the island.
Donald Trump returned to his private Mar-a-Lago Club before lunchtime Jan. 20, finishing the final few hours of his lone presidential term far from Washington, D.C., where he had lived the previous four years with his wife, Melania, and teenage son, Barron.
His return to Palm Beach three months after he was diagnosed with COVID-19 and later hospitalized was not without controversy.
Neighbors of the former president want to block him from living at the club he bought in 1986, citing a 1993 agreement he signed with the town that allowed Trump to convert the private residence into a private club.