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Palm Beach Gardens High School opened in 1968 with 1,700 students. It was the first public high school in the area, on Holly Drive just a few blocks from the heart of MacArthur's first neighborhood on MacArthur Boulevard.

From left to right, Bill Earle, Eugene Walker, George Bonner, and Woody Dukes attend the Mayors Golf Tournament in 1968.

The Mummers Parade has long been a Philadelphia tradition in which residents wear disguises on New Year’s Day. Since Palm Beach Gardens was a relatively new city in 1963, many of its residents were RCA employees who had been transferred from their…

The Palm Beach Gardens Parks & Recreation Department became the National Gold Medal Award Winner in 1989. Pictured left to right in the back row are Scott Moore, Bob Clarey, Lisa Polk, Steve Cardorini, and Mike Fallon. Pictured left to right on the…

In 1971, a new two-story municipal complex was constructed to house the police department; city clerk; city manager; the finance, building, and recreation departments; and the city council chambers. In 1974, six air-conditioned cars patrolled the…

Officer Robert "Bobby" Wummer (left), with K-9 Kris, and officer Glenn Wright (right), with K-9 Aran, were the city's first canine officers. Officer Wummer has been with the department since April 1984 and with the canine unit since it began in 1994.…

The SWAT team was formed in 1993 to assist with executing high-risk search warrants, high-risk arrest warrants of dangerous subjects, barricaded suspects, building searches for suspects, hostage situations, or any incident in which there is an…

Lifeguard Don Kiselewski Jr. barks out safety instructions from his megaphone at the new city pool. Funds that were used to build the pool ($155,000) were earned on May 1, 1981 during a community project called "The House that Buz Built," setting a…