Palm Beach County students excited, thankful for in-person graduations May 3, 2021 at 6:06 AM EDT - Updated May 3 at 6:06 AM
Palm Beach County high school seniors are celebrating plans for in-person graduations in June after all ceremonies went virtual last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yaemsiriwong can t wait for her big moment. I just felt like the high school experience wasn’t complete unless I walked across the stage, Yaemsiriwong said.
With only a handful of seniors on campus at Dwyer High School right now, Yaemsiriwong said she s looking forward to seeing the class of 2021 all back together again. Most of us haven’t seen each other since last March, so it s going to be really different and everyone’s changed. So that’s what I m really excited for, Yaemsiriwong said. We ve been working on the flower decorating and the chair covers, the program, getting everyone set up for that.
Palm Beach County students excited, thankful for in-person graduation ceremonies
Ceremonies will be socially distanced with masks required, fewer tickets for families
Palm Beach County high school seniors are celebrating plans for in-person graduations in June after all ceremonies went virtual last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
and last updated 2021-05-03 06:00:57-04
PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. â Palm Beach County high school seniors are celebrating plans for in-person graduations in June after all ceremonies went virtual last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yaemsiriwong can t wait for her big moment. I just felt like the high school experience wasnât complete unless I walked across the stage, Yaemsiriwong said.
Palm Beach Post Staff
Editor’s note: This originally published in Oct. 2017
Do you ever get an eerie feeling while visiting certain places in our county? You are not alone. Come with us as we explore the many haunts around Palm Beach County.
Jonathan Dickinson State Park (Martin County)
Nicknamed the “Wildman of Loxahatchee,” Vince “Trapper” Nelson is the identity of the ghost said to roam Jonathan Dickinson State Park. After moving to the area in the 1930s, Trapper eventually accumulated 858 acres of land along the Loxahatchee River. In 1968, Trapper was found dead from a shotgun wound. A coroner declared it a suicide, but some who knew of his run-ins with the locals believed he was murdered. After his death, the state acquired his land and it became part of Jonathan Dickinson State Park in 1970.
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Show Transcript THIS SUMMER. AND A LOCAL TEENAGER JUST TURNED 16 AND HE SPENT HIS BIRTHDAY GETTING HIS FIRST SHOT OF THE PFIZER VACCINE. TIFFANY: GRIFFIN GILBERT TELLS US, HE COULDN T BE HAPPIER. HIS MOTHER GAIL BELLINGER SAID, GILBERT SAID SHE WAS SO EXCITED WHEN SHE WAS ABLE TO SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT FOR HER SON TO RECEIVE THE PFIZER VACCINE AT THE SOUTH FLORIDA FAIRGROUNDS ON THE FIRST DAY HE BECAME ELIGIBLE. THE 16-YEAR-OLD SAID HE WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING THE VACCINE SO HE AND HIS FAMILY COULD FEEL SAFER. GAIL ALSO SAID SHE NEVER IMAGINED THIS IS HOW SHE WOULD CELEBRATE HER SON S BIRTHDAY, BECAUSE THEY ORIGINALLY HAD MORE TRADITIONAL PLANS. WE WERE THINKING THAT WE WOULD GET HIM A CAR, BUT YOU KNOW, COVID HAPPENED, AND SO, THE VACCINE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING RIGHT NOW. A CAR WOULD BE COOL,
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The Palm Beach Opera will celebrate its 60th anniversary this coming season with a three-opera lineup of well-known works, including two comedies and one of the world’s most-admired tragedies.
The operas will be presented at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach, the troupe’s usual home. In February, the company hosted a three-opera outdoor festival at the South Florida Fairgrounds, in what was a rare national return to staged opera amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The season will open Jan. 28-30 with one of the most popular operas in the repertoire, French composer Georges Bizet’s 1875 melodrama Carmen, the story of the tragic love of Don José, a Spanish soldier, for Carmen, a tempestuous Roma woman who refuses to be bound to conventional ways. The opera, the last major work of its short-lived composer, contains some of the best-known melodies in opera, such as Carmen s “Habanera” and the “Toreador So