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December is here, and with it comes holiday gift shopping.
Yes, it’s easy to head to a mall, hand over your credit card and buy what everyone else is buying.
But you’re not that type of shopper.
After all, you live in a unique area and you pride you

Boynton Beach residents Brandon Hill and Julia Calderon celebrate Hill’s 31st birthday with friends Jordan Merritt and Crystal Law at The Melting Pot in Boca Raton. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

This month, restaurants from Boca Raton to Palm Beach a

By Dan Moffett

    South Palm Beach taxpayers will see some eye-popping numbers when they look at their town’s proposed budget for 2017-18.
    But the large figures come with back-stories that help put them in perspective.
    Yes, the town has listed

By Mary Hladky

    Four years after the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced it was making the first changes to Palm Beach County flood maps in 30 years, it has released maps that are slated to go into effect on Oct. 5.
    Property owners

Groundbreaking
3550 S. Ocean Blvd., South Palm Beach – July 12

A special ceremony was held on site of the long-awaited replacement for the old Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn. The 30 planned luxury condominiums will swell South Palm Beach’s tax base by 25

April 22: The ninth-annual fundraiser to benefit the Southeast Spinal Cord Injury Fund will support Cruise Bogle, who was paralyzed in a skimboarding accident eight years ago. The event will have a live band. Support comes from the Delray Beach Playh

Teach your pets new tricks to work their brains. The author’s cat, Casey,

learned how to walk and then jump through a hoop.

Arden Moore and her dog, Kona. Bolster your bond with your pet by talking and singing to him.

Photos provided

By Arden Moore

I am a watcher of the sunrise. Most mornings I observe the dawn, coffee in hand, cat at my side, from the cloistered comfort of my screen porch. No great awakening, just light changing from cool to warm as my coffee goes from hot to cold. It’s a time