Gulf Stream School students get a lesson
in geometry and statistics from a day at the ballpark
Marc Bonutti cheers for a Marlins run the day Gulf Stream School students
went to Roger Dean Stadium to watch a baseball game.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The C
Delray Beach voters overwhelmingly approved changing the city charter to give the City Commission authority to appoint an internal auditor. The vote was 9,318 to 3,144.
The vote on a second referendum question, on allowing the City Commission
By Amy Woods
From her first day to her last, the director of community relations at the Delray Beach Public Library loved her job.
“It spoke to all the things that I enjoyed doing,” said Bonnie Stelzer, who officially retired Feb. 29 after 1
Basketball legend Alonzo Mourning played most of his NBA career for the Miami Heat.
He will be the keynote speaker at the April 6 Inspiration Breakfast.
Photo provided
By Janis Fontaine
The 14th annual Inspiration Breakfast, an annual fundraiser
Renderings show the Gulfstream in perspective, above,
and in a Lake Avenue streetscape.
Courtesy of JRA Architects, Louisville, Ky.
By Jane Smith
One of the owners of the historic Sundy House in Delray Beach recently received approval to renova
Volunteers donate their time at the golf course
to get reduced fees
Volunteer Francis Sanatan rakes a sand trap at Red Reef Park Executive Golf Course.
Doug Tunstall, who volunteers at Red Reef, plays a round of golf.
Francis Sanatan, a volunteer pla
When someone you love takes his own life, it leaves a large aching space packed full of questions. I know, because I lost a brother to suicide. He was 51. This is why when I learned of Tod Abrams’ death at the Caron Ocean Drive facility in Delray
By Rich Pollack
Plans to have Delray Beach continue to provide fire and rescue services to Highland Beach residents after a current contract expires next year hit a snag Feb. 2 when Delray Beach commissioners rejected a proposed agreement in whi
By Jane Smith
Guy Harvey hoopla has overtaken Boynton Beach.
“Who doesn’t like Guy Harvey?” Tom McClure responded when asked about a possible hotel going up in Boynton Beach. He is president of Boynton Intracoastal Group, which represent
South Palm Beach Mayor Bonnie Fischer, left, congratulates new Town Clerk Maylee De Jesus
after De Jesus was sworn in during the Jan. 26 council meeting. With De Jesus are her daughters, Marializ, left, and Veronica.
Willie Howard/The Coastal Star
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By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge residents turned out in droves to complain about Mayor Geoff Pugh’s ideas for overhauling Old Ocean Boulevard.
Pugh didn’t mind that at all. He said the main thing he wanted was for them to turn out in droves.
“It
The space that’s Doc’s All American could house a couple dozen residential units, as well as offices or retail.
Photo provided
By Christine Davis
The corner location of Doc’s All American, 10 N. Swinton Ave., is up for sale, as is 37 W. Atlantic
Spirit of Giving, a local nonprofit, partnered with 60-plus community organizations to bring more than 9,000 needy children and their families, along with 1,000 veterans, to the sporting event. ABOVE: (l-r) Scott Singer, Ann Rutherford, Linda Gunn Pa
More than 100 local business leaders attended an informational event featuring Paul Leone, president of The Breakers Palm Beach and Flagler System. Leone gave an in-depth presentation of The Breakers’ 119-year history. ABOVE: Jeff Stoops and Leone.
Guests at the ninth-annual event celebrated Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse’s 30th anniversary with the theme ‘30 Years, 30 Faces – The Survivors, The Champions and Those Who Serve and Protect.’ It honored women overcoming domestic abuse and 30 volu
By Mary Thurwachter
Never let it be said that Lantana Mayor David Stewart doesn’t enjoy a good challenge — especially when it comes to his town and reading to children. So when the Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County invited the public to part
Robert Knapp is retired from practice, but still teaches.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Lona O’Connor
Robert Knapp’s medical career spans more than five crucial decades of women’s reproductive health. As a young medical resident back in t
Teens do some floorwork on the mat at Buddha Lounge in Delray Beach.
Students in Jo Boccassini’s class do a pose called rope sirsasana. For some kids, the stranger and more challenging the pose, the better.
Photos provided
By Janis Fontaine
Terry Fedele has been a vital part of the local health-care philanthropy scene since coming to Boca Raton with her husband, Jerry, seven years ago. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Her lengthy résumé might boggle the minds of some of the most avid volun
By Steven J. Smith
SOUTH PALM BEACH — Bradley James Stewart Jr. was known as a jack-of-all-trades — and a master of pretty much all of them, according to his daughter, Sara Watson.
“He was an incredible handyman and was particularly gifted a
