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Lauren and Claire McCormack, Jeanie Bulloch and Kai McCormack (l-r) wave to catch the attention of oncoming State Road A1A drivers. They are in the same Delray Beach crosswalk where a fatal accident occurred Feb. 5. Police say crosswalk signs were no

Town eyesore on the market for $5 million, but buyer beware

This duplex once owned by Elizabeth DeLorean, an ex-wife of automobile magnate John DeLorean, sits in disrepair just south of Tropical Drive. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

By Jane M

Split commission votes to keep fluoridating water after dentists rebut surgeon general

After the Delray Beach City Commission voted to continue fluoridating the city’s drinking water, dental hygienist Linda Reichman resumed the discussion with Florid

Former Boca Raton Mayor Richard “Dick” Orville Huopana died Feb. 3 at Croasdaile Village in Durham, North Carolina. He was 96.

Mr. Huopana was born to Orville Huopana and Lillian (Kinner Huopana) Peters in Endicott, New York. He graduated from Spence

I am writing to address a common misconception that has repeatedly stalled progress on much-needed pedestrian safety measures in our community: the notion that crosswalks require sidewalks on both sides of the road. This claim is not only incorrect b

Did you ever think you really knew something, something vitally important? Only to find out the things you thought you knew were not only out of date, but also bordered on dead wrong? 

I took a basic lifesaving class when I was in college and thought

Laurie Arsenault, one of 10 children, was always told by her father: “The world is not a trash can. Pick up after yourself.”

Now she is known as the Angel of Beachway for picking up 540 pounds of trash in the last two years from Ocean Ridge beaches.

By John Pacenti

Manalpan’s great sand transfer plant war of 2025 ended not with a bang but a whimper.

“I feel tapped out of what I can potentially do to shut [the plant] down or do anything on that matter,” Town Manager Eric Marmer said at the Beach

Tim Sharp works in Boca Raton teaching students in the Chamber of Commerce’s Young Entrepreneurs Academy, one of his several volunteer missions. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

By Hannah Spence

Many people aspire to spend their golden years at the beac

By Rich Pollack

The cost of Delray Beach’s new water treatment plant could more than double from an estimate a few years ago — due largely to new federal EPA regulations — and that could result in another increase in customers’ water bills down the r

By John Pacenti

Tiger Woods’ PopStroke in Delray Beach — which combines dining with putting — appears to be thriving, with crowds on the greens at the back of the restaurant visible from outside.

While it may be fun for customers, it’s not so fun for

By Henry Fitzgerald

The Delray Beach Police Department is seeking state money to pay for technology in public places, which would include cameras to be installed on the barrier island to help fight crime.

In a letter sent to residents early in Februa

Volunteers come out in large numbers to turn tiny Briny’s big flea market into a true community affair

Briny Breezes’ annual flea market on Feb. 8 required dozens of volunteers, pictured, and countless hours to pull off, from storing the donations t

By John Pacenti

Under the guise of protocol and civility, Delray Beach Mayor Tom Carney and Commissioner Angela Burns are seeking to curtail Vice Mayor Juli Casale’s public criticism of City Manager Terrence Moore. 

Burns suggested a gag order to kee

Beach renourishment will take place on Hammock Park beach starting in mid-March and ending April 30.

Palm Beach County will be dredging beach-quality sand in the vicinity of the Boynton Inlet and piping it to an area of the shoreline that is exposed

By Steve Plunkett

Town commissioners and staff fretted that substantial work on Phase 2 of Gulf Stream’s big water main, drainage and road project would not begin early — or even by the originally scheduled mid-March start.

Town Manager Greg Dunham g

The Gulf Stream Civic Association held a 100th anniversary celebration and dinner at the Little Club to commemorate the community’s founding in 1925. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

By Steve Plunkett

After five meetings as an alternate member of the Architectural Review and Planning Board, Katherine Orthwein now sits as a full voting member of the panel, following in the public service footsteps of her mother, longtime Town Comm

By Henry Fitzgerald

Writers for The Coastal Star won awards announced in January in the 2023-24 Florida Press Club Excellence in Journalism Competition.

Jane Musgrave received a first-place award in environmental reporting for her story, Sargassum,

Artist Serge Strosberg (left) and J. Turner Moore’s grandson Cameron Charles pose with the new portrait of Moore at the Manalapan library. Photo provided by Michelle Donahue

By Hannah Spence

It’s like a piece of Manalapan’s library has gone from Kans