Welcome to hurricane season. If you’re new to the area you may have recently encountered your first flooded roadways, rising groundwater and canceled windstorm insurance. Add to that mix La Niña holding in the Pacific, a slowed Gulf Stream, a w
I can’t remember how I learned to swim. I’d like to think I gripped my mother’s hands with my pudgy baby fingers as she bounced me up and down in the water of some muddy, Midwestern lake until I was floating — still grasping one finger until I let g
It’s not that I’m slowing down or losing interest. There are no urgent responsibilities that must be addressed. My health is good. But like the dropping barometer before a storm, there’s an ever-present pressure nagging at me to slow down, urging me
Goodwill has long been the bedrock of our community newspaper. Yes, we provide news, information and entertainment for our readers, but our foundation is based on the goodwill we receive from the businesses and residents in our coastal communities.
Someone stole my bike. It wasn’t new and I have another one, but it was the same aqua blue as the ocean on a summer day. You could feel the wind in your hair just looking at it. The bike was also the color of this newspaper’s masthead logo and was a
“Hoping you’ll find comfort in the memories that are yours to cherish always, and strength in the companionship of those who share your loss,” wrote Coastal Star reporter Rich Pollack to me following my mother’s death in 2007. The handwritten no
The drama at the Delray Beach commission meeting was expected to come from an audit report on the Old School Square Center for the Arts. But another number came up — deeply disturbing and having nothing to do with the beloved and troubled nonprofit.
In your June/July article about bicycling on A1A, you only made a short statement referencing large groups of bikers. I find it very disturbing that I have observed over the past 10 years large groups of bicycles — 30 to 90 bikers — who ride in the
Thank you for your coverage of not just our Ocean Ridge municipal meetings but all of our neighbors’ meetings in your paper. An invaluable asset to the coastal communities. In the article about the May 2021 Ocean Ridge commission meeting is one poi
History is hard. What passes as history is most often written by those with the means to quickly share their view of events with a wide audience. Often that means newspapers. In 1943, journalist Alan Barth called news “the first rough draft of histor
What can I say about overdevelopment that hasn’t already been said a thousand times? I have never known anyone that is at all happy with the direction that the development in Delray Beach has gone. When the iPic Theater went up, it appeared that the
The light falls differently once the clocks change. It’s brighter, easier, more transparent. Increasingly the draw-bridges are in the up position and the tops are down on the rental convertibles cruising on A1A. After a year of living oh-so-very-cau
I find myself dismayed by the recent argument in Ocean Ridge about the temporary closure of the Anna and Edith streets beach crossovers. Nearby residents, largely from Hudson Avenue, expressed their anger about the closures at the December Town Commi
Most years at this time we’d be planning our annual Coastal Star holiday party. We like to kick off the new year by getting everyone who works for the newspaper together for an afternoon of socializing.
The Ocean Ridge Police Department is currently accepting applications for the positions of Dispatcher and Police Reserve Officer. To learn more, please visit our website:
In your recent edition, The Coastal Star stated about a Gulf Stream issue of AT&T requesting more funds to preserve “the historic Australian pines” roots due to construction work. The Australian pine is an invasive species that needs to be eradicated
Please ensure our public safety by voting to protect our police department on August 18, 2020, in the Florida primary election. Many residents were disturbed that this issue actually emerged, but to properly address it, the Town Commission, on J