When a knee injury sidelined a Saint Andrew’s athlete, he tackled and conquered a new challenge: Bagpipes
Senior Chris D’Angelo leads the Saint Andrew’s football team onto the field in August while playing Scotland the Brave. While recovering from
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Jon Pearlman (center,front) and other Save Boca supporters bring petitions to Boca Raton City Hall on Sept. 23 to give to the city clerk. The petitions seek a vote on a city charter change regarding the sale or lease of city property. Photo provided
The summer of ’25 will be remembered as a time when the heat — political heat, that is — reached a boiling point along the coast here.
In Delray Beach, impatient Florida officials demanded the city remove its colorful Pride intersection in downtown’s
Hailey Clark, a marine biology student at Florida Atlantic University and a Coastal Stewards volunteer, releases the group’s last turtle patient into the ocean on July 10. The patient is Sparrow, a green sea turtle. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
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By Mary Hladky
Save Boca’s battle against the city’s plans to redevelop 30 city-owned acres in the downtown campus now has impacted city politics.
Save Boca supporter Meredith Madsen is challenging incumbent Boca Raton City Council member Marc Wigder
Mathematics professor Angie Su of Boca Raton can see examples of math almost anywhere, such as with this design at Town Center mall. To give one example, she says butterfly wings are a textbook case of bilateral symmetry: If you draw a line down the
Related: Downtown plan’s fate is up to voters, mayor says
By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton voters will decide in the March 10 city election whether to approve a $175 million bond issue to finance construction of a new police headquarters.
City Council membe
By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton has scrapped its plan to change the beach parking system.
On ice are the addition of new technology and eliminating beach park gatehouses.
Residents still will be able to get a sticker to attach to the lower left-hand corner
By Mary Hladky
When Boca Raton officials in 2009 purchased the land that now is Wildflower Park, they envisioned it as the perfect spot for a waterfront restaurant.
A citizens’ group, however, had a very different idea. Members wanted a public park,
TOP: ADMA Biologics won the heavyweight division in the second annual Boca Helping Hands Corporate Challenge Hunger Games. L-R: Ryan Bertalotto, Jomarie Ramirez, Cassandra Hugelmeyer, Marie-Chantale Simard, Joel Robinson, Christina Odai, Patricia Fo
By Mary Hladky
City Manager George Brown’s long tenure as a top city administrator is coming to a close.
Brown, who announced in April that he would be retiring at year’s end, attended his final City Council meeting on Sept. 25 and became City Manage
The Boca Raton has agreed to take the lead on refurbishing the century-old fountain on East Camino Real just outside the resort’s main entrance. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Mary Hladky
The orphan fountain outside the entrance to The Boca Raton wi
The Residences at Martin Manor is finally rising from the ground.
Years of effort to replace the dilapidated Dixie Manor public housing complex bore fruit on Aug. 25, when a groundbreaking ceremony was held for three apartment buildings that will pro
By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton’s tax rate will remain virtually unchanged for the fiscal year that began on Oct. 1.
The 2025-26 property tax rate, approved unanimously by the City Council on Sept. 25, is $3.66 per $1,000 of taxable value, or 1 cent less t
Boca Raton Regional Hospital was recently recognized as a Comprehensive Resuscitation Center of Excellence, a statewide initiative launched in 2022 as part of the Florida Resuscitation Center Committee’s mission to improve survival rates for sudden c
Leaders of the Boca Raton Junior League gearing up for the Nov. 21 awards luncheon include (l-r): Julie Ott, Dr. Kathy Schilling, Namrata Israni, Racheal Petullo, Carrie Rubin, Victoria Matthews, Shakira Sarquis-Kolber, Maureen Mann and Robin Mautin
ABOVE: (l-r) Michele Katzman, David Katzman and Elaine Zimmerman. Photo provided by Colby Kessler
JARC Florida, a nonprofit based in Boca Raton that provides programs and services to educate and empower those with intellectual and developmental disab
ABOVE: (l-r) Society President Denise Alman, Zook, committee member Laura Malone, Executive Director Mary Csar and committee member Lori Saunders. BELOW: (l-r) Victoria Matthews, Dorothy MacDiarmid, Fabiola Hooker and committee members Reilly Glasser
TOP: (l-r) Marcia Mithun, Doug Mithun, Arlene Herson, Emily Grabelsky and Teri Wolofsky. MIDDLE: (l-r) Amy Seidman, Zoe Lanham, Bonnie Halperin and Nicole Flier. ABOVE: (l-r) Holli Rockwell Trubinsky, Kristina Gregg and Joe Trubinsky. Photos provided
October offers a bevy of food and drink events as the new season gears up. The Delray Beach GreenMarket is set to open Oct. 25 at Old School Square. Photos provided
By Jan Norris
No fall leaves here, and the thermometer dips only slightly, but South
