To: 'eevacation mail.com[[email protected]] From: Sent: Wed 4/13/2011 1:09:29 PM Goodbye Palm Beach, and thank you! Posted By Jose Lambiet On April 13, 2011 @ 2:47 am In Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Island's Finest, Jupiter Island, Media, Palm Beach Gardens, Stars. Wellington, West Palm Beach, Jupiter I 42 Comments IIIIt's hard to say goodbye when you're having fun! Yet, this is my last Page2Live (1I entry. On Tuesday, I became executive editor of Radar Online 113 one of the country's biggest celebrity websites. The sandbox I get to play in now is a lot larger, and the gig often will take me to Los Angeles and Las Vegas and New York City. But I leave The Palm Beach Post PI and the readers who supported me with news tips, kudos and criticism for the past seven years with a heavy heart. I love Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast, and not just because it's my home. There are few places in this country as quirky as Palm Beach, Stuart, Boca and Wellington. News people who work here know they're lucky because, indeed, there never is a dull moment. For more, look below or click My first story was a profile of the controversial Welly developer Glenn Straub, a West Virginia who conducts business the way miners in his native state attack coal veins. The 2004 piece opened with an anecdote about how Straub was so reviled that polo fans cheered when he injured himself in a potentially fatal fall during a Palm Beach Polo Club game. Straub complained about the coverage a little, but I believe he secretly loved the attention. I'll confess to a rough beginning in Palm Beach society a couple months later. To some, including the recently deceased Dame Celia Lipton Farris 14), a great philanthropist, I just didn't dress right. After checking me out from head to toe at a party where I might have appeared without a tie and a shave, she told me: "Palm Beach had a dress code, young man!' I never got around to buying a blue blazer with gold buttons or lo