By Tim O’Meilia
Best case scenario: seven submerged groins and a beach 50 feet wider in South Palm Beach and Lantana by February 2016.
That’s not as much as everyone wants, but it’s likely the most anyone’s likely to get.
South Palm Beach Mayor Donald C
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Joan Lorne checks a loggerhead nest the morning after the eggs hatched and finds a couple of stragglers, who are set free.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
Venture down to Delray Beach not long after sunrise, and you can’t miss her.
By Dan Moffett
Delray Beach commissioners’ campaign to tighten up their business dealings has grown so heated that even a contract for beach chairs can raise emotional warnings about extortion, loss of integrity and “whoring the city.”
The comm
Delray Beach has clarified its competitive bidding rules after the county Inspector General said the city bent its rules when it awarded its beach-cleaning contract last January.
Universal Beach Services, the city beach cleaner for 30 years,
By Tim O’Meilia
The newest plan for saving South Palm Beach’s fast-eroding shoreline is a series of seven buried groins dotting the beach from the Tuscany condominium to the Ritz-Carlton resort.
At least, that’s what the computers say.
“There’s enough
Blair Adams (brother and man of honor), Linda Adams (bride’s mother), Brittany Adams Manimbo (bride), Daniel Manimbo (groom) and Dave Adams (father of the bride) celebrate the couple’s wedding at Harbour Island in the Bahamas. Family photo
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By Cheryl Blackerby
Delray Beach and Boca Raton are likely to receive long-awaited money for damage to beaches by Hurricane Sandy, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The two cities’ beach projects were among 16 projects around th
Highland Beach residents gathered to clean up the beach on April 8. Ben and Mayra Stern (above) were among the volunteers who spent several hours hours combing the beach, finding many plastic bottles and caps, broken flip-flops, plastic bags, balloon
The Delray Beach Historical Society and the Historical Society of Palm Beach County joined forces for a program celebrating the history of the Barefoot Mailman.
ABOVE: Arts Garage’s student band, Rogue Set, including keyboard player Maddox Kumar of O
July, 16, 2012, marked the 70th anniversary of the Vel D'Hiv round-up. On July 16th and 17th, 1942, the French police arrested 13,152 Jewish men, women and children from the Paris area. Initially kept in the Velodrome D'Hiver, they were then taken to
Lights glow aboard the 355-foot-long dredge Texas as the full-moon rises over coastal Delray Beach on March 20. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
NOTE: The drege was towed away for minor repairs April 3, and is expected to be back on site early next week
Bulldozers give a sense of the width and depth of the renourishment project.
Photos by Michelle Quigley/ Special to The Coastal Star
More photos from the beach renourishment project
By Cheryl Blackerby
A 355-foot dredge, the most po
A temporary lifeguard stand opened in March on Lantana Beach.
“Town staff built the one on the dune,” said Lantana Town Manager Deborah Manzo. “We are hoping that the town will obtain approval from the state to put a (permanent) stand back on the
LEFT: Jose Arimatcia, an employee of Pugh’s Pools and Spas, installed a pair of tile mosaic sea turtles at the Ocean Ridge Town Hall. The installation is a joint project between the Ocean Ridge Garden Club and Mayor Pugh.
RIGHT: An early sea t
Situated among the trees and mountains along the scenic Hudson River, Kingston, New York seems far away from the salty blue waves of the Atlantic and South Florida. Yet, just 100 miles inland from the World Trade Center, at the southern tip of Manha
Susan Swiatosz is the new keeper of the Boynton Beach City Library’s archives. Rich Pollack/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
For most people, the box sitting on the table upstairs in the Boynton Beach City Library could easily be nothing more tha
By Margie Plunkett
Universal Beach Services Corp. nearly saw 30 years of cleaning the sands of Delray Beach come to an end in the undertow of a low bidder. Commissioners, however, finally awarded Universal the contract after it protested that the
Patsy Randolph used the pillars of a gazebo to frame her subject to create a
photo that provides nice sense of the gardens.
By Jerry Lower
I have been a photographer and picture editor for most of my career and a teacher for a small part of it. I
