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Vacant lot brings nearly $40 million on SW corner of Everglades Island in Palm Beach
A limited liability company bought the waterfront property of nearly an acre at 757 Island Drive, which last changed hands for about $18 million in 2016.
Palm Beach Daily News
A Palm Beach couple has parted with a prominent corner lot on the southwest tip of Everglades Island for a recorded $39.5 million or $21.36 million more than the property last sold for in 2016.
The lot measures about nine-tenths of an acre, and the deal is likely the most expensive sale ever of a Palm Beach vacant lakefront lot of its size, according to courthouse records.
Eric Wetherell, musical polymath who was a BBC producer and wrote operas and TV music – obituary
Wetherell s father gave him a secondhand trumpet and the youngster taught himself to play it before doing the same with the French horn
Wetherell: a raconteur with a fund of stories about musicians from his long life
Eric Wetherell, who has died aged 95, was a composer, conductor, arranger and radio producer. His two operas A Foreign Field and The Snow Child, written in later life, gained traction, but he was never one to be pigeonholed, working across jazz and classical music, conducting orchestras and big bands, and writing television music and song cycles.