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Palm Beach Fire-Rescue is marking 100 years as a town institution.

UNCSA has received gifts totaling $750,000 to endow a distinguished professorship from staunch supporters and members of its board of trustees, Chancellor Brian Cole has announced. A gift of $500,000 from Michael and Amy Tiemann of Chapel Hill will endow a distinguished professorship in the Division of Liberal Arts. Their gift has been met with an additional $250,000 from UNCSA founder and Trustee Emeritus Thomas S. Kenan III.

Susan Salisbury Special to the Daily News Henry Morrison Flagler was a visionary, but even he probably could not have imagined what The Breakers, now a premier resort known worldwide, would become when he founded it 125 years ago. Flagler, who made his fortune as a partner in the Standard Oil company and as a developer and railroad pioneer, opened the Palm Beach Inn on Jan. 16, 1896. It was the only oceanfront hotel south of Daytona Beach and attracted the famous people of its day including th...

1855: William Hackley recorded in his diary: Rose at 5 and walked to the Salt Pond, returned home and bathed. Wind south 1, clouds 4. The sty on my left eye is entirely well all the swelling going down in 48 hours after taking the first dose of Pubsatilla. Hatty pretty well today and gave her no more remedy. Captain Walton of the Ship Ashburton having complained of his crew having refused duty and they were arrested and brought before Judge William Marvin. The men behaved badly but the officers...