A powered parachute flies above a sunset yoga class taught by Jessica Om on July 19 at Atlantic Dunes Park
in Delray Beach. Om has been teaching the Sunday class since 2010. She recently added a Wednesday class.
The classes meet 5:30-7:30 p.m. A $10-
Wendy Friswell, 54, is executive director of Spirit of Giving. She lives
in Boca Raton with her husband, David, her daughter, Michelle, and her son, Ryan.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Lucy Lazaroni
For Wendy Friswell, giving is like breathing
Caryn Foltz has sketched images of the area
and paired them with her thoughts that day in a book she calls SandScript.
Bruce Borich/The Coastal Star
The cover of Caryn Foltz’s book of drawings
and essays is derived from her first sketch.
By Ron Ha
By Willie Howard
Lake Worth officials want the right to regulate disposable plastic shopping bags — an avoidable convenience that can blow into waterways, harm marine life and clog recycling systems and storm drains.
On June 16, Lake Worth city
Illustrations from the book include nurses in front of the Boca Raton Army Airfield hospital (above),
and Lt. Manny Chavez talking to his crew before a training mission in 1943 (below).
Chavez still lives in Palm Beach County.
Photos provided
By Ste
Hudson Holdings, a co-owner of the Gulfstream Hotel, made a bid to create the Lake Worth Convention Center
and Beach Club. Many residents object to the plans.
Rendering provided
By Jane Smith
One of the owners of the historic Sundy House in D
By Tao Woolfe
Taxable property values in Palm Beach County rose an estimated 8.7 percent overall in the past year — and upward of 10 percent in some coastal municipalities — according to just-released preliminary figures from the Palm Beach Coun
As we head into the 2015 hurricane season, it’s not too early to make preparations … just in case. Southeast Florida has not experienced the effects of a serious tropical weather system in 10 years, and some reminders may be in order.
There
A resident maneuvers a golf cart into Briny Breezes, where the use of non-street-legal golf carts
such as this one has been determined to be illegal.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Drive your golf cart on a public road in Ocean Ridg
Coach Ted Green gives player August Slat
a hug after August got a solid hit and ran the bases.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Kevin Taylor is greeted with a series of high fives as he rounds third base on Miracle League Opening Day in Delray Beach.
Pho
Beachgoers packed the oceanfront daily in Delray Beach, making it difficult to find a parking spot or parcel of sand.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
You can credit bad weather up North, the recovering national economy or the growing
William Peppler flies north along Florida’s coastline above Delray Beach in a 1967 Piper Navajo.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Tao Woolfe
William Peppler cannot move or speak. The 10-year-old spends most days surveying the world from his small
By Tim Pallesen
The Florida Legislature has taken “an important first step” to regulate the sober homes for recovering addicts that cause concerns in Delray Beach, Boca Raton and other coastal communities.
The new state law awaiting the governo
A right whale surfaces, arching her back and extending her head and fluke out of the water.
Photo provided by FWC
By Cheryl Blackerby
Only about 500 North Atlantic right whales are left in the world. Fortunately for Floridians, these extremely rar
Dr. John Schwartz
The La Sagra’s flycatcher resting in the branches of a gumbo limbo tree.
Jacque and Larry Goodhew.
Photos by Malcom Balfour and Dr. John Schwartz
By Malcolm Balfour
After a disappointing five-day bird-watching jaunt to Key Wes
By Jane Smith
The Kanner & Pintaluga law firm finally has a new Florida home in downtown Boca Raton after a multiyear search from Boynton Beach south to Fort Lauderdale.
The personal injury firm is renovating 45,000 square feet of space in th
John and Sheldon Goldstein (in rainbow vests) participate in a group same-sex wedding
Jan. 6 in Delray Beach.
Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Marcie Hall and Chris Porter of Delray Beach, together more than 30 years, were married.
Financial
By Jane Smith
FEMA has opened the final round of public appeals and comments on proposed changes to its Palm Beach County flood maps.
The 90-day period, which started Jan. 2, allows South County coastal communties to challenge the flood des
Florida’s environmental disaster hits the beaches
Sea Angels created a sculpture from garbage found along the shore.
Volunteers filled a plastic hardhat they found with drinking straws, fishing line and rope they picked up along the shore.
Photos pro
By Rich Pollack
Plans to install license plate recognition systems in several coastal communities along State Road A1A are moving forward, with local law enforcement officials exploring the possibility of having a shared database housed in Delray
