Coconut Creek News
By LUIS F. PEREZ
September 21, 2024
COCONUT CREEK, FL - Coconut Creek Fire Rescue is offering CPR classes that teach residents how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The training, called Heart Saver CPR, is provided by the American Heart Association. The classes include CPR for infants, children, and adults, as well as how to ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - Coconut Creek police arrested a Deerfield Beach man this week for driving under the influence after he ran a red light and hit another car with a mother and two children, sending them to the hospital, according to a police report. On Sept. 18 at around 7 p.m., Angelo Carruba, ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - While Coconut Creek city leaders continue their vociferous advocacy against an expansion of the Monarch Hill Landfill, official complaints about it filed with the county over the last five years range from about one to three dozen annually — except for one year. The impacts of ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL - Coral Springs police are reminding residents to drive carefully -- or they may just make the next episode of the department’s popular “Traffic Thursdays” series.The series -- which is posted to the department’s social media accounts -- follows city officers during routine ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - A Coconut Creek woman called police after she found a mauled dead cat near in a field just west of her apartment building on Lyons Road, according to a police report. At around noon on Sept. 15, police went to 621 Lyons Road where the resident, who works for a veterinary ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - Coconut Creek city leaders are urging residents to have their voices heard at two public meetings on Wednesday - one on schools and the other about garbage. Broward County Public Schools leaders will be at Coconut Creek High School on Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m. to get input from ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - Coconut Creek parents can read with their young children to contribute to setting a new world record on Oct. 24 at the city’s recreation complex. This year, the Jumpstart's Read for the Record event for children ages 4 to 8 years old, featuring Piper Chen Sings by Phillipa Soo, ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - He was known as a man who could fix anything. He owned an auto repair shop, and fixed cars and planes. And he flew planes, too. Thomas J. McDermott of Coconut Creek also repaired fire engines as a volunteer firefighter in the Northwest Broward Volunteer Fire Department. He died ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - Coconut Creek has hired a new fire chief, bringing back a recently retired deputy chief to be the city’s top firefighter, City Manager Sheila Rose announced last week. “I'm pleased to say that I offered Brian Blizzard the position of fire chief yesterday, and he accepted the ...
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. — A Coconut Creek police officer received the city's Lifesaving Award for his actions in saving a man who was choking at Atlantic Technical College last summer.Officer Emmanuel Torres-Carrasquillo responded to a call on July 26 about a man choking on an object at the college.
COCONUT CREEK, FL - Leaders from Broward County Public Schools are coming to Coconut Creek next week to talk about how to redefine three area elementary schools. Coconut Creek Elementary is one of those three, along with Charles Drew Elementary in Pompano Beach and Liberty Elementary in Margate.
MARGATE - Doctors at HCA Florida Northwest Hospital in Margate used a recently FDA-approved heart prosthetic device for the first time to repair a patient’s damaged arteries — a medical milestone, hospital officials announced this week. Two of the hospitals leading heart surgeons performed the ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — Police responded to a road rage disturbance at the Coconut Palm Club on Wednesday evening after a man complained about electric bike riders in his apartment complex just off State Road 7.The man called police around 6 p.m. to report people riding electric bikes in the area. When ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - A 13-year-old girl from Parkland was arrested this week for making a threat against a private school in Coconut Creek.She’s the ninth student to be arrested in Broward County since August for threatening schools, Broward Sheriff’s Office said in a news release this week. On ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - The Coconut Creek Police Department’s Do The Right Thing third-annual auction opens online at noon Friday so bidders can start competing for items before the live event next week. The nonprofit, which is affiliated with the police department, is raising money to go toward its ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - Over the last month or so, Coconut Creek residents have heard or read about all sorts of scary infectious diseases.Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s former top infectious disease expert, was hospitalized due to West Nile Virus. Cases have been reported across the Northeast, and a ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – New construction is coming to another stretch of Sawgrass Expressway, this one stretching through parts of northern Coral Springs and Coconut Creek. Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise announced Wednesday that a $21 million resurfacing and safety improvements project will span the ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — Coconut Creek Commissioner John Brodie Wednesday joined members of the Coconut Creek Police and Fire Departments for the annual 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb Challenge. The event at Planet Fitness at 4291 Hillsboro Boulevard honors the 343 New York City Fire Department firefighters ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - Three high school seniors from a private school in Coconut Creek are among the 16,000 semifinalists in the 70th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.The North Broward Preparatory School students are Kelin Levine, Hrishi Patel, and Sofiia Shyshkovtsova, according to an ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - The mountain of Broward County garbage, known as the Monarch Hill Landfill next to Coconut Creek, produces enough methane gas to power about 9,000 homes — a source of renewable energy. That electricity production may not continue, if the Broward County Commission declines to ...
COCONUT CREEK - The internal battles at Wynmoor in Coconut Creek have gone from a Facebook group to multiple lawsuits in the Broward County courts, including two involving a county commissioner and the city’s vice mayor. Wynmoor’s chief administrator and chief financial officer joined the public ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — Coral Springs’ newest taqueria, Cartel De Tacos, has quietly opened its doors on West Sample Road, where Toscana Pizza once stood. While the space still retains remnants of the former pizzeria — including a soon-to-be-removed pizza oven — the flavors here are distinctly Mexican, ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – A 44-year-old Coconut Creek man allegedly grabbed a woman and forced her face into a toilet filled with diarrhea during an argument in their home last weekend, a police report said. Coconut Creek police charged Alex Arcila with aggravated assault, battery, and other crimes ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – Coconut Creek Hometown Market will return on Saturday, Oct. 5. The market is held on the first and third Saturday of each month from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Township Plaza, on the southeast corner of Lyons Road and Sample Road, near Veterans Park.The market features a variety of ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - Coconut Creek leaders are planning to take up a new local law at Thursday’s City Commission meeting that would limit single-use plastics at food businesses in the city. The single-use plastic law would require that plastic utensils and marine biodegradable straws be handed out ...
PARKLAND, FL - The Stanley Cup made its way to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Friday.The NHL championship trophy has been presented all over South Florida since the Florida Panthers beat Edmonton Oilers in June.On Friday, hundreds of students filed past the trophy at Marjory Stoneman ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - Over its seven-year span in Coconut Creek, the police department’s Do The Right Thing has not only recognized youth and educators, it has inspired them as well. The nonprofit organization is run by the police department and rewards students and teachers for good deeds and ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - Coconut Creek police are investigating a sexual battery that was reported to have happened at the Hampton Inn and Suites. According to a police bulletin, the incident happened on Aug. 27 at the hotel located at 5740 State Road 7 in Coconut Creek. The victim reported the alleged ...
COCONUT CREEK, Fla.— A fire broke out at a horse barn in Coconut Creek early Thursday, killing one horse and injuring another.Firefighters from Coconut Creek Fire Rescue were called to the 4500 block of NW 39th Avenue at 5 a.m. in the area of the city known as Vinkemulder.The fire was at Red Stone ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - Treating the most common type of heart arrhythmia — atrial fibrillation — has evolved with doctors now working to move irregular heartbeats back to normal instead of just trying to slow them down. And that has a profound effect on health outcomes for patients, according to Neil ...