Letters

Editor's Note: New Boca, South Palm council majorities face challenges

Two maxims stand out from South County’s March 10 municipal races: Elections have consequences and every vote counts. Those maxims were true in one of the area’s smallest towns and in its biggest city.

Boca Raton voters squashed plans for a major pri

Editor's Note: With mature trees threatened, the answer isn’t more palms

Related: Lantana/Hypoluxo Island: Out on a limb: Hypoluxo Island residents grapple with how to protect their tree canopy

Related: Lantana: Tales from a Tree City

Related: Delray Beach: Fight to preserve massive banyan at golf course pits city against

Editor's Note: Office cat has a new home; some people aren’t so lucky

She’s a petite pescatarian with green eyes and perky ears. Her brown hair is highlighted with streaks of black and apricot. Something about her staggering gait is endearing.

She’s a cute little cat with thyroid and neurological issues and she rece

Editor's Note: Boca, Delray deal with summer of discontent

The summer of ’25 will be remembered as a time when the heat — political heat, that is — reached a boiling point along the coast here.

In Delray Beach, impatient Florida officials demanded the city remove its colorful Pride intersection in downtown’

Editor's Note: Soak up the off-season’s best — and by that we don’t mean sweat

This time of year, when I set foot in my backyard, I’m greeted with the most beautiful floral bouquet — a large and magnificent frangipani tree. Fragrant five-petal white flowers adorn the tree. Some fall gracefully to blanket

Editor's Note: Be careful in paradise and you’ll be all right

Riptides at the beach. Strong currents in the inlet. Distractions on State Road A1A.

And, oh yeah, hurricane season has arrived. Can’t you feel them circling, honey?

Be careful out there.

Since A1A is now officially the Jimmy Buffett Memorial Highwa

Editor's Note: How Intracoastal neighbors smoothed troubled waters

With the completion of the Bonefish Cove Restoration project only months away, we look forward to visiting the mangrove islands and oyster reefs in the central Lake Worth Lagoon north of Hypoluxo Island. American avocets, black skimmers and royal te

Editor's Note: As snowbirds depart, turtles take their place on the beach

Editor's Note: Railroad crossing gates: Let’s cover all the lanes

Totally unnecessary, that is, if only you could trust people to use common sense.

But then a fire truck being driven

Editor's Note: So long, farewell, adieu (but not goodbye)

I’m retired. Yep. There I said it.

As of Jan. 1, I turned the editorial reins of this newspaper over to the talented and competent people my husband and I have

Editor's Note: 16 and counting — with your help

Sweet 16! The Coastal Star is growing up. …

Sixteen years ago — November 2008 — our first edition was delivered to homes and condos in the South County coastal area stretching from Manalapan through Delray Beach.

As other print publications stopped

Editor's Note: When errors creep into stories, we furnish fixes

Oops, ouch, mea culpa.

Mistakes happen. As hard as we try, there are times when our publication doesn’t catch a date-error, typo or misspelling. Sometimes an item simply needs more explanation to make sense to readers. And much to our chagrin, there

Editor's Note: Enjoy the pace of our summer slowdown

Off-season seems like a misnomer. This is the time of year when impromptu living is very “on.” Tickets to the theater or a concert? Just show up at the box office. Need some super-chilled a/c? What’s better than a movie on a big screen? Want a stay-c

Editor's Note: Boynton Inlet area is risky; more signs should say so

Related stories: Along the Coast: Boy presumed drowned while fishing at inlet with father 

Manalapan: Attempts fail to revive woman pulled out into the ocean

Lantana news brief: Lifeguards rescue two swimmers from rip current

On June 13, my morni

Editor's Note: 80 years after D-Day, recalling true patriots

Eighty years. That’s a long time ago. Especially to those who didn’t have parents alive to share their memories of Tuesday June 6, 1944 — D-Day.

Staying abreast of current events has driven me to try to understand more about the past. As a result, I’

Editor's Note: Battles over home size pit property vs. community

Unintended conse-quences. Who would have guessed 20 years ago that big, white square houses would be all the rage? Who could have known FEMA, faced with the reality of rising water, would set new requirements for floor levels? And I suppose it shoul

Editor's Note: Embrace chances to learn from history, good and bad

Understanding our history is critical in today’s world.

Learning about the past helps us all to recognize our predecessors’ brilliant successes as well as their mistakes. Perhaps most important, we can identify the times when evil darkened the world

Editor's Note: Keeping a sharp eye on our priorities — and our limits

There are many things we do not do. At the top of that list is this: The Coastal Star does not do political endorsements.

To fairly write endorsements requires conducting interviews — preferably in-person. These are time-consuming and almost impossib

Editor's Note: An open welcome to new leaders on dais

Welcome! It’s exciting to see so many fresh faces on the dais at Town Hall. Thanks to each of you for stepping up to serve the community.

Term limits, personal conflicts and Florida’s financial disclosure law (known as Form 6) opened the door for ma

Editor's Note: Looking forward to new year and changes at ‘The Star’

You won’t see any “year in review” stories or photos in this January edition. It’s not that they aren’t interesting, it’s just that I’m a Capricorn — always looking forward. The coming year interests me far more than the one in the rearview mirror. S