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PALM BEACH GARDENS, FL - Aventine Development and Seawood Builders celebrated the groundbreaking on Phase I of Arbor House, a refined new residential community designed to pair timeless sophistication with an easy, connected way of living.

Arbor House is a luxury multi-family development with 13 stories and 302 units, offering a mix of studio to three-bedroom apartments. An attached garage with 480 parking spaces complements amenities, including a 7,000-square-foot deck on the eighth floor featuring a wellness center, state-of-the-art fitness center, golf simulator, cold plunge, sauna, resort-style pool, and a ground-floor work-from-home lounge.

"High-rise luxury rental apartment living is something new and different for Palm Beach Gardens," said Ed Masi, President/CEO of Seawood Builders. "Arbor House will meet the high demand for new Class-A multifamily residential during a time where there is clearly a shortage. Its prime location is convenient to popular retail outlets, including Trader Joe's and Whole Foods, and will be a magnet for young professionals and their families."

"Arbor House is part of a broader master plan that includes replacing outdated developments with new, modern uses," added Bill Spruce, Cofounder/Managing Partner of Aventine Development. "Palm Beach Gardens is becoming a luxury market for living. By transforming an aging office park into a vibrant luxury living environment, we are part of the movement that already includes The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Palm Beach Gardens, opening later this year."

"Arbor House is an important project for the City of Palm Beach Gardens," stated Mayor Marcie Tinsley. "There is a strong, cooperative spirit between the City and our development partners to address the need for high-quality developments while also helping to spur interest in a rail station within PGA Station, a mixed-use development within our Transit-Oriented District that will serve our community."

"Today's celebration includes a ceremonial tree planting—a lasting symbol of Arbor House and the natural spirit of Palm Beach Gardens," explained Alexandra Masi, Director of Marketing and Communications, Seawood Builders. "It will be preserved and placed on-site as construction progresses."

Phase II of Arbor House will include a second 13-story tower and attached garage offering 318 apartments for a total of 620 units when both projects are completed.

Source: Aventine Development / Seawood Builders

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. —

While events outdoors, including green markets are, have been canceled because of bitter cold this weekend, the South Florida Fair has an incentive for people to attend the last day.

On Saturday, organizers said anyone wearing shorts Sunday will be admitted free. That includes shorts worn over pants, leggings, long johns or any other creative layering.

When the fair opens at 10 a.m. Sunday, temperatures are forecast to be around freezing.

"If Polar Bear Club members can jump into the icy water in the middle of winter, surely South Floridians can throw on a pair of shorts over their pants and call it a day," Matt Wallsmith, president & CEO of the South Florida Fair, said. "We're expecting some people to have fun with this and take advantage of the free admission, fashion bravery encouraged, dignity optional."

The South Florida Fair will close at 8 p.m. Sunday after a 17-day run.

On Saturday, the fair was open 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. when the high temperature only reached the low 60s.

There are plenty of activities indoors in the Expo Center and Concourse buildings, including agriculture exhibits, vendors and shows. Popular attractions include the ice skating and comedy hypnotist.

Elevated attractions, including the Sky Ride and the Thunderbird Swing Ride, will shut down should conditions deteriorate further.

Green markets scheduled for this weekend in West Palm Beach and Palm Beach Gardens have been canceled because of the bitter cold, the cities announced Friday.

In West Palm Beach, the city said the event Saturday was canceled "due to inclement weather."

It traditionally runs weekly from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Waterfront Commons on Clematis Street from October through late May. It is in its 31st season.

In Palm Beach Gardens, the event takes place on Sundays from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at City Hall Municipal Campus. The city said the event was canceled because of "weather conditions and safety concerns," though the website says "this event is rain or shine."

The city's Aquatic Complex also will be closed Sunday. The Tennis & Pickleball Center will have a delayed openings at 9 a.m. Sunday and Monday.

Other events affected by the cold weather.

Riviera Beach's “Restoring the Village Community Picnic” on Sunday has been rescheduled for seven days later at 1 p.m.

Wellington's Aquatics Center and Wellington Tennis Center will be closed Sunday but is scheduled to reopen Monday.

Indian River County's North County Aquatic Center and the Gifford Aquatic Center closed at noon Saturday. Gifford is scheduled to reopen at 10 a.m. Tuesday and North County will reopen once air and “real feel” temperatures rise above 50°F and pool water reaches 73°F or higher.

Margaret Jean Casey Lynnworth (Margy) passed away on Saturday, January 31, 2026, at age 78 (four days short of her 79th birthday), in Wellington, Florida following a ten-year challenge with Alzheimer’s Disease. Born February 4, 1947, in Johnson City, New York, she was the youngest of 5 daughters.

Margy was an avid reader, living across the street from the public library, where she read her books so quickly in one day that they had to ask her to wait a day before returning her books so that the library records could catch up to her prolific reading. With her senior year of high school served as a Rotary Exchange Student, in Western Australia (Perth), she returned home to Endicott, New York, when most students had already applied for and been accepted to college. Fortunately, with her exceptional grades, Margy was immediately accepted by phone at Syracuse University (SU). Although no dormitory rooms were available, she enjoyed her first semester freshman year living with her older sister, Anne Fay Trabold, in Camillus NY. She graduated with honors from the Union-Endicott High School in 1965 and began at SU in the fall of 1965.

During her sophomore year at SU, in 1966, on her first day in a class about the philosophy of religion, it was “love at first sight,” when she peered across the aisle and saw what would become her sweetheart, and love of her life, Artie Lynnworth. She completed undergraduate studies in June 1969, earning a bachelor’s degree from the College of Liberal Arts, magna cum laude, majoring in philosophy and German, achieving acceptance into America's most prestigious academic honor society, Phi Beta Kappa. Margy and Artie were married on her graduation day from SU, June 7, 1969. She and Artie enjoyed 60 years of loving harmony together.

Margy followed her love of books and reading to obtain a graduate degree, a master’s in library science, in 1971. During their years of marriage, Margy was a passionate volunteer for various Friends of the Library organizations in multiple communities where she and Artie lived during their 30 years in the USA while Artie transferred from one location to another due to his work. Often, she and Artie served on the different community’s library board of directors. When living in Lake City, Florida, the public library nominated her to be Woman of the Year for Columbia County in 1983.

Early in their marriage with hopes of being a mother someday, Margy became a Girl Scout volunteer, offering support and friendship while serving as a role model for neighborhood youngsters. When living in Dallas, Texas, she was a volunteer baby cuddler for premature babies. Although medical reasons prevented Margy from having her own children, years later she and her husband Artie “informally” adopted an adult Chilean musician, Cristian Gutiérrez, who ended up calling her “mom.” Cristian was subsequently married to Antonia Sanchez, and they provided Margy with her “grand children,” Valentina (born May 10, 2013) and Julieta (born January 23, 2017).

With her husband’s work requiring relocation around the USA and world, they moved sixteen times during their nearly 57 years of marriage, including Syracuse, New York, Camillus, New York, Proctorville, Ohio, Lake City, Florida, Wilmington, North Carolina, Houston, Texas, Lewiston, New York (Niagara Falls), Dallas, Texas and Santiago, Chile, South America. In retirement they had homes in Nashua, New Hampshire, Fernandina Beach, Florida, Mirasol, Chile, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida and Wellington, Florida.

Margy was an outstanding artist and crafts person, with artwork that had been displayed and purchased at local libraries, and with illustrations published in a technical book about ultrasound, authored by Artie’s brother Larry Lynnworth. For several years she volunteered as a graphics designer, with the sole responsibility to create employee newsletters for her husband’s manufacturing plants across the USA. She was a master in several crafts including quilt making, crocheting, spinning wool, knitting, basket weaving, exceptional portrait art, sculpting, sewing, pen and ink drawings and more.

Part of her artistic ability extended to her love of photography. As a child she enjoyed taking photos, and this creative skill continued through her life, often with the joy of purchasing the latest model of camera. The extensive travel she and her husband did provided an abundant source of photographic subjects to share with others through a first-ever family website she created in 1999 when they lived in South America. That website blossomed into a continuing communications conduit for family and friends, using her many photos combined with those of her husband.

For four decades, Margy was an at-home individual investor. She managed a portfolio of hundreds of stocks, often handling the high-risk environment of options, puts and calls. She was a careful budgeter from the start of their marriage and continued her successful pursuit of financial management throughout her life.

When only 68 years old, she noticed a decline in her cognition and was subsequently diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s Disease. However, her love of life and driving spirit allowed her and her husband to continue traveling for another decade around the USA and the world. In 2025 a fall and fractured vertebrae ultimately tipped the scales, and in August of that year she entered full time memory care at their senior community of Wellington Bay. Her last five months in this Lisbet Health Center were, according to her husband, among the best in recent years. She was happy, more verbal and engaged with others, often offering to help those nearby. Her generous life ended with joy and caring for those around her.

Margy was preceded in death by her mother, Anna Moore Casey (1991), her father, Dr. Vincent L. Casey (2002) and by stepmother Adella Lynnworth Casey (2009), plus two older sisters, Anne Fay Trabold (2023) and Kathy Smith (2025). Margy predeceased her two other sisters, Pat Bollinger in Helena, Montana, and Elizabeth (Bibba) Spencer in Owego, New York, and her husband, Artie Lynnworth, in Wellington, Florida.

Consistent with her life-long passion to serve others, her body has been donated to the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine to be used for medical school research and science.

Her warm heart, beautiful smile, childlike spirit and loving nature will be missed by many around the world who have had the pleasure of knowing her. Three words that sum up her life: Loving, gentle, brilliant.

Those wanting to honor her life are encouraged to donate to the Alzheimer’s Foundation, Friends of the Library, and/or Team Randy, a summer camp in Toms River, New Jersey, founded to honor the passing of nephew Randy Lynnworth. This charity was established to help physically challenged teens, plus physically able and/or financially disadvantaged teens.

Ampera plans to hire thousands of employees to develop prototypes for microreactors.

Energy startup Ampera has announced plans to develop and manufacture compact nuclear reactors in Palm Beach County.

Why it matters: The company is opening its headquarters in Palm Beach Gardens and intends to hire 2,500 people over the next five years to work on its prototype for the microreactor systems.

What’s happening: Ampera will operate from buildings totaling nearly 100,000 square feet at 354 and 358 Hiatt Drive in the Gardens Innovation Center at PGA National Commerce Park, the company and the Business Development Board of Palm Beach County announced just before New Year’s.

Catch up quick: In November, Ampera made public its plans to build a sealed microreactor that requires no refueling, produces no long-lived waste, and delivers power in a compact, deployable package.

In June, Super Micro Computer, a Fortune 500 cloud computer company and AI data center supplier, paid $6 million for an 11% stake in Ampera, Bisnow first reported. The San Jose, Calif.-based company reported in federal records that it holds one seat on the three-member Ampera board of directors.

What they’re saying: “There is strong demand worldwide for ultra-safe, nuclear reactors that are easily transportable and able to deliver clean, consistent power for decades without having to be refueled,” Ampera founder and CEO Brian Matthews said in a statement.

Matthews is a British entrepreneur and physicist who also leads Additec, a 10-year-old high-tech metal manufacturer based in Palm City.

What’s next: Ampera said it plans to hire its first 100 employees by the end of the year.

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