Megan is rescued on Lantana Beach on Christmas Day 2013.
Coastal Star file photo
Meghan gets a sendoff south of Key West on Dec. 11, 2014.
Photo provided by Melanie Bell
By Cheryl Blackerby
The little olive ridley sea turtle that washed up on the
A great blue heron is easy to recognize for its gold-colored beak, yellow circle around the eye and 4-foot wingspan.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
This red shouldered hawk takes advantage
of a tall snag to announce his desire to mate.
Sandy
Coastal Star writer Rich Pollack test-drove a Porsche 911 Turbo. BELOW: Drivers take to the road
in the Waldorf Astoria Driving Experience in a McLaren MP4-12C (front),
a Ferarri 458 Italia (center) and a Porsche 911 Turbo.
Photos by Joe Skipper/The
Kevin Dwyer hands off a pile of paper and cardboard to be recycled to Roy Miller.
These Briny Breezes volunteers — along with Roger Hebert — were riding in a trailer
driven by Ken Doyle during a recent recycling run.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By
By Dan Moffett
As it turns out, it’s not that difficult to get the coastal communities to speak with one voice.
All you have to do is threaten to move them out of the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council.
Palm Beach County commission
By Cheryl Blackerby
Coastal residents can be proud they had something to do with increasing turtle nest numbers this year.
“Most experts agree that conservation efforts and full-cutoff lighting on the coast are probably the main reasons for
WORKING: The town of Ocean Ridge spent $450,000
to finish a drainage and pump project last year on Coconut Lane,
a street that used to flood on a regular basis. Photographed at peak high tide, the system is working.
NOT YET: Sarah Mitchell looks for
By Jane Smith
Stormwater runoff from agriculture areas in the west and from lawns in the eastern urban areas continues to plague the southern segment of the Lake Worth Lagoon.
Fewer seagrass plants were found in a 2013 survey, and it looks like
By Rich Pollack
It looks like license-plate recognition cameras on State Road A1A and other state roads will be allowed to stay up after all — at least for now.
Last month, officials with the Florida Department of Transportation’s regional offi
Cuban knight anoles, which prefer to perch head-down
in trees, are hard to miss with their neon-green coloring.
The lizard also has a brown phase. Both of these
were photographed in the same pigeon plum tree in Ocean Ridge.
Photos by Jerry Lower/ The
By Cheryl Blackerby
King tides, the highest tides of the year, caused alarming and unprecedented coastal flooding from Miami Beach to Palm Beach County last October.
The extreme high tides, also called autumnal tides, will be back this month.
By Jane Smith
Representatives for a new passenger rail service are courting South County coastal residents to convince them that an express intercity rail link is needed between Miami and Orlando.
All Aboard Florida will operate on the Florida
Nancy Schneider learns that her Delray Beach condo is now considered in a flood zone.
Judy Kraft is one of the few whose Briny Breezes property
has been given a more favorable flood rating.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
By Dan Moffett
Federal officials say that human smugglers are bringing Haitian and Cuban migrants to South Florida in increasing numbers, continuing a five-year trend that shows no sign of slowing.
The coastal communities have witnessed this u
By Rich Pollack
They are very different organizations but they share a common goal: keeping bicyclists and pedestrians safe on local roadways.
Last month, the South Florida Safe Roads Task Force conducted its second safety campaign of the yea
Tons of limestone boulders and recycled concrete slabs were sunk to re-create the Goggle Eye Reef.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Cheryl Blackerby
About 700 tons of limestone boulders and scrap concrete were dumped into the ocean about a half-
In Boynton Beach, Steven Michael’s Hudson Holdings bought a 1.35-acre parcel along Northeast Sixth Avenue, just south of the city Community Redevelopment Area called Ocean Breeze East. It paid $1.1 million for the land in April 2013.
Then it
Developer assembles properties in Delray, Lake Worth
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Building Boom: Investments in change
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By Tim P
By Rich Pollack
Motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians along A1A beware: Law enforcement officers from several departments will once again be out in force this month in a concentrated effort to promote the need for bicyclists, motorists and pedestr
