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Students contributed to a grand total of 20,366 community-service hours during the school year, including 87 boys and girls who served more than 100 hours each. More than 30 area nonprofits benefited from their hard work. Also recognized by school of
ABOVE: Board members of Impact 100 celebrate the gathering of $436,000 in grant money to benefit nonprofit organizations serving South Palm Beach County. This year, four groups received $100,000 grants. They were: Best Foot Forward, Boca Helping Hand
The work of writers and designers at The Coastal Star was honored with seven awards in the Florida Press Club’s 62nd annual Excellence In Journalism competition:
• Top honors went to Cheryl Blackerby, Mary Kate Leming, Jerry Lower and the la
Even though the temperature keeps rising, there have been no summer doldrums at The Coastal Star.
A larger space with better parking has lured us across the street and into a section of the old TD Bank on A1A just south of Woolbright.
By
Board members, life trustees and standing committees were honored by Kravis Center Vice Chairwoman Laurie Silvers and other leaders at the performing-arts institute. A special performance by Neil Berg’s ‘106 Years of Broadway’ highlighted the event,
Florida Federation of Garden Clubs president Sue Angle (left) honors
Boca Raton Garden Club president Carol Brown with the state
Garden Club of the Year award.
Photo provided
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
Carol Brown, president of the Boca Raton Gar
More than 300 women made a big ‘impact’ when they gathered for Impact 100 Palm Beach County’s Grand Awards Celebration to award $320,000 to five nonprofits in South County. Three recipients were each awarded a $100,000 High Impact Grant. They were: A
By Cheryl Blackerby
The Palm Beach County chapter of the nonprofit International Dark-Sky Association gave 23 Boca Raton condominium associations awards for making their lighting more efficient and turtle-friendly.
The awards were presented a
The Coastal Star staff was honored Nov. 2 with first-place awards in environmental news coverage, opinion writing, news photography and feature page design by the Florida Press Club during its annual awards banquet.
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Soroptimist International of Boca Raton / Deerfield Beach welcomed more than 300 guests to its awards ceremony. Merrilee Middleton, 93, Boca Raton Center for Group Counseling founder, received a lifetime achievement award.
TOP: Cynthia Cummings with
Insets: Boca Raton Police Chief Dan Alexander (top) and Capt. Josh Mindick (below)
Boca Raton: Correction
By Steve Plunkett
For their work in ejecting a squatter from a $2.5 million Golden Harbour mansion, Police Chief Dan Alexander and Capt. Jo
Impact 100 members, including Laura Stoltz (raised fist), react as the winners of the $100,000 grants are announced at the Delray Beach Marriott. Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Christine Davis
Impact 100 members neither waste time no
If ever there were an adage that describes The Coastal Star, this is it. It really does take a village.
Those of us on the editorial side of The Coastal Star recently received 10 awards from the Florida Press Club for work in the categories of Light
Sometimes in the depths of summer it’s difficult to leave the chilled cocoon of the house and drag myself into the office. But as we began to put together this August edition, I was re-energized by the dedicated, ongoing support of our readers, adver
The management of The Coastal Star would like to congratulate the accomplished writers and photographers who help us produce an impressive, award-winning newspaper. Several of them were recognized at the Florida Press Club Awards in St. Petersburg th
Where did I put my keys?
In a busy world it’s easy to be overwhelmed with the minutiae of life. But once you’ve been exposed to the stages of dementia, fear that this instance of displacement may foreshadow future stages of memory loss hovers beh
By Paula Detwiller
They called her “the holdout.”
The year was 1997, and the city of Delray Beach wanted to take Pat Healy-Golembe’s historic house by eminent domain to expand a parking garage near the beach. She said “no sale.”
The developer proposed
