By Steve Plunkett
Gulf Stream town commissioners may decide to raise property taxes up to 7.1 percent for the coming budget year, mostly to rebuild reserves used last year for the underground utilities project.
Commissioners set a maximum rate
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By Liz Best
BOCA RATON — Gene Ehlers will be remembered not only for his professional accomplishments, but also for the way he lived day-to-day: with elegance, dignity, generosity and an ever-present twinkle in his eye.
“I hope everyone will li
John Connelly III of Gulf Stream. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Steve Pike
Athletes are often judged on two things: talent and IQ, the latter of which has nothing to do with test scores. Here’s all you need to know about John Connelly III’s
The $2 million enclosed tanks at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center
have opened to the public. Visitors can look down into the tanks,
one of which is planted with mangroves. Below the deck are windows
for peering into the tank. Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coa
Mike and Jodi Halker have opened Due South Brewing Co. in Boynton Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Jan Norris
If Dad’s still saying, “I love you, man,” maybe it’s time to upgrade his brew. Try a craft beer — one produced without a billion-doll
Eleven former or current Boca Raton Regional Hospital physicians have been nominated for the Palm Beach County Medical Society’s Heroes in Medicine Awards and will be honored at the Society’s ninth annual luncheon, at the Kravis Center on May 9.
For
Richard Pollock, who lives in Highland Beach with his wife,
Mary Jo, has worked for the YMCA for 38 years. He is the CEO
of the YMCA of South Palm Beach County, which includes facilities
in Boca Raton and Boynton Beach. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Sta
By Steve Plunkett
The competition between beach-goers and sea turtles for a spot in the sand continued to heat up in 2011.
Countywide, female loggerheads, greens and leatherbacks dug a record-high 19,552 nests, besting 2010’s record total, said Pau
Jay Van Vechten and Zack Rice have been making plans for the
Boca Raton Boating & Beach Bash for several months.
Mary Thurwachter/The Coastal Star
By Mary Thurwachter
When Jay Van Vechten envisioned an annual boating and beach event for people
More than 500 guests attended the YMCA of South Palm Beach County’s 10th
Annual Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 9 at the Boca Raton Resort & Club to see keynote
speaker and daytime TV celebrity Regis Philbin. Pictured are Philbin (left) and
Mary Jo and R
The Boca Raton Historical Society is offering snippets
of pioneer Frank Chesebro’s diaries as tweets. Photos provided
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
Frank Chesebro moved to Boca Raton from Michigan in 1903. He planted his land, worked with a crew of A
Ellen Glendinning Frazer Ordway was photographed taking a photograph in 1938.
By Mary Thurwachter
For quite a few years, mostly in the 1920s and ’30s, Philadelphian photographer Ellen Glendinning Frazer Ordway chronicled the lives of prominent,
The Allianz Championship’s focus is on golf,
but it has added the Grapes on the Green Golf and Wine
Event at The Old Course at Broken Sound to attract a range
of spectators. Photo provided
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
The weeklong 2012 Allianz Cha
Eva Hirschenstein Appelbaum survived the Holocaust
in Yugoslavia, moved to the United States and has written
a book on how Italian soldiers helped save Jews during
World War II. She will read from her book at 5 p.m.
March 8 at the Highland Beach
Retired pastor Dr. Ronald Siegenthaler of Delray Beach
led the nondenominational service in the Briny Breezes
auditorium on Jan. 22. Photo by Jerry Lower
By Tim Pallesen
Regis Philbin will be keynote speaker for the 10th Annual Prayer Breakfast t
By Steve Plunkett
County officials have put an accountant’s touch on the local match needed for grants to convert Lake Wyman spoil islands into thriving mangrove canoe trails and a manatee stopover.
“Sharpening the pencil, we can move $36,000 from l
Howard and Beverlee Schnellenberger will serve as
ambassadors at large for Florida Atlantic University. Photo by Thom Smith
By Thom Smith
“You gon’ retire?” former University of Kentucky quarterback Bob Hardy asked his old teammate Howard Schnellen
The new Boca Raton Garden Club ornament highlights the
The Boca Raton Garden Club released its 18th annual holiday ornament, a commemoration of the Pearl City section of the city.
The Garden Club’s 24-karat-gold-plated 2011 ornament depicts th
By Steve Plunkett
Four lawyers — all representing other municipalities — want to be the town’s next attorney.
Highland Beach commissioners will interview the candidates Dec. 8 for the successor to Tom Sliney, who resigned effective Dec. 31 after Co
Stephanie Robin has survived Stage 4 breast cancer and
is currently undergoing treatment for cancer in her lungs. Photo provided.
By Liz Best
By sheer definition, Stephanie Robin is the living embodiment of a survivor, but she still hesitates to
