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Stalled for six years by the slow economy, twin 19-story towers for 148 condominiums along with 20 townhouses on the Intracoastal Waterway are scheduled Thursday for a preliminary vote before the village council. - The Armstrong Group

Here's everything you needed to know about when to splurge on sheets -- and when you're getting ripped off. - The Armstrong Group

Here's everything you needed to know about when to splurge on sheets -- and when you're getting ripped off. - The Armstrong Group

A man was in critical but stable condition Thursday afternoon after being shocked while working on the electrical system of a store in a shopping plaza in Palm Beach Gardens, said chief Keith Bryer, spokesman for the city’s fire department. - The Armstrong Group

Now, a recent study by New York University economics professor Edward N. Wolff has put the decline of the American middle class in a whole new perspective: According to Wolff's calculations, the median net worth of American households has now reached a 43-year low of $57,000 (in 2010 dollars). - The Armstrong Group

The housing market may be recovering, but not everyone’s along for the ride. First-time buyers are becoming a shrinking share of purchasers, according to the results of a monthly survey of 2,500 real estate agents. New home buyers made just 34.7 percent of all purchases in October, the lowest since the Campbell/Inside Mortgage Finance HousingPulse Tracking Survey started in September 2009. Three years ago, first-time borrowers were 47 percent of all buyers, buoyed at the time in part by a tax credit. - The Armstrong Group

The Taste History Culinary Tours of historic Palm Beach County are usually focused on dual cities, such as Lake Worth/Lantana and Delray Beach/Boynton Beach, but in December it will make its second solo tour of Boynton Beach. - The Armstrong Group

For more than 100 years, the sunken ship off Key Largo, Fla., was merely known as "Mike's Wreck," named after the employee of a local dive shop. But a team of archaeologists have finally identified the ship that sunk here in 1911 as the Hannah M. Bell, built in England in 1893. - The Armstrong Group

Make your home office more personal by taking on one (or three!) of these fun DIY desk projects. - The Armstrong Group