Lois K. Solomon
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- 21
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- Sep 26, 2026
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- Jul 11, 2026
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Cash, credit or surcharge? What to know before you pay in South Florida (opens the original)
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When customers are ready to pay at South Florida businesses, they’re often not sure what type of money the venue will accept and what the conditions will be. They have to ask: Is cash accepted, or is it strictly credit card-only? Will paying with plastic incur a surcharge? Do old-fashioned dollar bills unlock a discount? Retail worker Lauren Petschek has witnessed the bewilderment firsthand. At her downtown Delray Beach shop, customers often approach the counter warily to ask whether using a cre
A pesticide-free South Florida garden? Here’s how to keep critters out of your yard (opens the original)
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Outdoors experts agree: It’s time for us to make peace with the pests in our gardens. Bugs, raccoons, snakes, iguanas: These critters are so abundant in South Florida that they are almost impossible to eliminate. Nor do we want to, said Chris Maler, senior director of horticulture at Flamingo Gardens in Davie. “A better option is to learn to respect and live with our animal neighbors,” Maler said. “Snakes are excellent rodent control. Opossums eat deer ticks that carry Lyme disease, but are resi
Decades after fleeing the Nazis, a Broward survivor’s family is honored in Berlin (opens the original)
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Leaflets were distributed in a Berlin neighborhood in early September, inviting residents to a special ceremony. The city, beloved by Max Heppner’s ancestors but their betrayer during World War II, was honoring his family with engraved sidewalk plaques, to be installed in their former neighborhoods. “We would be delighted if you could join us,” the invitation said. About 20 showed up on Sept. 6 to commemorate the family of Heppner, a Holocaust survivor who lives in Hillsboro Beach, as part of th
ASK LOIS: I still like to party like it’s 1980! Where can South Florida singles my age go to meet people? (opens the original)
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Q: I am 71, native to Miami Beach, hardly have any gray hair and felt so left out of the article on dating. What about us older folks like myself that actually still wear a bikini to the beach, no kids, etc., and young @ heart vs. an old lady? Where do we find a group to get together and have a glass of wine and chips for us older folks who still rock ‘n’ roll like we are 40? I am healthy-minded and like to party like it’s 1980! — Susan Schaffel, Fort Lauderdale A: Susan, you are so right, the s
‘I realized how lucky I was’: A Sept. 11 survivor in South Florida shares her account of chaos & courage (opens the original)
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For most of the past 25 years, on the anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, Elinda Kiss has put on the blue business suit she was wearing when a World Trade Center tower adjacent to her hotel was struck by a hijacked plane. It’s her way of remembering the day that changed the course of her life. Kiss, who ran out of the building without her suitcase, briefcase and laptop, succeeded in guiding a group of colleagues out of breakfast in the Marriott World Trade Center hotel ballroom and into the streets o
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