Diane Hextall and Suzie Hiles walk zone 4 as representatives of the Highland Beach turtle program. On mornings that they do not find any turtle nests from the previous night, they collect rubbish and assess beach conditions. Hextall has worked for
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Staff and volunteers at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center had to move nine sea turtles to other facilities because Gumbo Limbo no longer had a license to treat them. Photo provided
By Steve Plunkett
Gumbo Limbo Nature Center’s injured and recuperating sea
By Steve Plunkett
A federal judge has ordered Boca Raton to reconsider its 2019 denial of a permit to build a home on the beach and barred Mayor Scott Singer and City Council members Andrea O’Rourke and Monica Mayotte from taking part.
U.S. District J
By Rich Pollack
Just six days before he was set to begin his second term in office, Highland Beach Mayor Doug Hillman died March 15 following a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 77.
Mr. Hillman’s death, which came less than two months after
The Hampton Social (far left) and Le Colonial (far right) restaurants are open at Atlantic Crossing, which sits at the northeast corner of Atlantic Avenue and Northeast Sixth Avenue (North Federal Highway) in downtown Delray Beach. Tim Stepien/The Co
John Jackson helps Birgit Grove settle in for dinner at Harbour’s Edge. He wears diff-erent colors each day.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
All the men and women who serve the 340 elderly diners at Harbour’s Edge, a luxury senior living c
The first sea turtle of the summer has nested — a huge, awe-inspiring leatherback. Our volunteers are out again at dawn looking for the V-shaped trails in the sand that show the arrival of our ancient, reptile visitors.
These leathery ladies are the
Lin Hurley of Delray Beach reacts after a player scores a goal. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Steve Plunkett
To say it’s been a banner year for longtime special-needs soccer coach Lin Hurley would be a huge understatement.
First, she was declared
Florida auditor general may be final arbiter
By Rich Pollack
For more than a year Delray Beach has claimed that Highland Beach owes it thousands of dollars for fire and rescue services, even going so far as to claim the town is in default.
Now, in a
By Rich Pollack
After receiving a flurry of emails regarding the impact that a planned $8.8 million resurfacing project on State Road A1A would have on Highland Beach, Stacey Cohen went to a meeting hosted by state transportation officials with a poc
By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton is ushering in a new era as two new City Council members take their seats on the dais.Marc Wigder replaces Andrea O’Rourke, a fixture in city affairs who helmed the Golden Triangle Neighborhood Association and the Federation
By Mary Hladky
In a sharp rebuke to Mayor Scott Singer, voters soundly defeated a measure that would have increased City Council terms of office from three years to four.
With only 9.8% of registered voters casting ballots in the March 14 city electio
By Joe Capozzi
The election of Carolyn Cassidy as the town’s newest commissioner is just one of several key Ocean Ridge leadership changes in the works.
After Cassidy is sworn in on April 3, the Town Commission will still have three top positions at
In keeping with a town tradition, Carolyn Cassidy receives an unofficial, private swearing in on March 23 with Town Clerk Kelly Avery. Photo provided
By Joe Capozzi
Newcomer Carolyn Cassidy and incumbent Martin Wiescholek won seats on the Ocean Rid
The Irishmen, a bar less than a mile from Florida Atlantic University’s Boca Raton campus, was rocking during the Elite Eight round of the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament. A packed house watched FAU defeat Kansas State 79-76 and win a trip t
By Larry Barszewski
Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula and more than 500 art and craft exhibitors will combine for a traffic-stopping April weekend in downtown Delray Beach.
Gauff and Pegula, professional tennis players from Delray Beach and Boca Raton, resp
Commissioners (l-r) Kristin Rosen, Simone Bonutti and John Deese and Mayor Stewart Satter take their oaths of office. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Larry Barszewski
Stewart Satter was sworn in as Manalapan’s new mayor March 28, succeeding Keith
Delray Beach has a healthy dune and easy public access. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By John Pacenti
It’s the Michelin star for beaches.
Delray Beach is on the verge of joining the elite as it is one of only two continental U.S. seashores to be con
By Steve Plunkett
Town commissioners made Gulf Stream School’s newly raised 300-student limit a permanent one after twice postponing their decision so residents could come to Town Hall to give input.
The school won permission on Jan. 13 to raise the l
By John Pacenti
Delray Beach voters handed Mayor Shelly Petrolia a major defeat on March 14 — and she wasn’t even on the ballot.
They rejected the City Commission candidates Petrolia supported in favor of two who promised to return Delray Beach to an
