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A fire displaced around 50 people at the Royal Atlantic Apartments, 110 NW 7th Ave. in Pompano Beach on May 15, 2023.
A 27-year-old in Pompano Beach and a 56-year-old in Hollywood were killed in a two-day period in April 2022, [175] [176] a viral video from April 2023 showed a Brightline locomotive colliding with a trailer of luxury cars, [177] and there was another fatality on September 28, 2023 just days after the line was extended to Orlando.
Over 20 in (510 mm) of rain fell on Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport. [9] The 25.91 in (658 mm) of rain measured at the airport was the most ever observed in Fort Lauderdale in a single day, eclipsing the previous record of 14.59 in (371 mm) set on April 25, 1979.
Tequesta Indians lived in the area. [12]The city's name is derived from the Florida pompano (Trachinotus carolinus), a fish found off the Atlantic coast. [13]There had been scattered settlers in the area since at least the mid-1880s, but the first documented permanent residents of the Pompano area were George Butler and Frank Sheen and their families, who arrived in 1896 as railway employees. [3]
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The Stuart News grew out of the merger of the Stuart Times (1913) and Stuart Messenger (1915), which was sold to the Clyma family in 1922. They converted the publication into a daily newspaper called the Stuart Daily News in 1925, claiming then that Stuart was the smallest town in the U.S. to have a daily newspaper.