….The Palm Beach Town Council continues to debate growing community issues this season, particularly traffic, parking and overcrowding. As longtime member Lou Crampton stated to The Palm Beach Daily News, “The mantra for us is ‘honor tradition and navigate change.’”
…Many New York real estate pros are suggesting that following next month’s Mayoral election, a new influx of New Yorkers to South Florida could potentially rival the great Covid migration, causing another major spike in home sales.
…The Flagler Museum will host Midnight at Whitehall, a New Year’s Eve party celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Whitehall Hotel, Dec. 31 starting at 10:30pm. Kelly Matthews Hopkins and Christina Matthews Macfarland — descendants of Henry Morrison Flagler — will co-chair the event. By invitation only.
….New airport flight patterns and restrictions are causing noise concerns all over town due to the “fanning out” of planes taking off from PBI.
…Much-beloved Stubbs & Wootten founder Percy Steinhart, who died this week after a long illness in New York, is being remembered as a Palm Beach visionary, tastemaker and friend, having launched the iconic footwear house, famed for its witty velvet slippers, in Palm Beach in 1993.
….The upcoming release of To Win the World, Brett Baier’s much-anticipated biography of Theodore Roosevelt, marks the third installment in his best-selling Presidential series, and was feted this week in New York by legendary hosts Hilary and Wilbur Ross.