By Mary Hladky
Deputy Mayor Fran Nachlas and City Council member Andy Thomson are facing off to become Boca Raton’s next mayor in 2026, replacing Scott Singer, who is prevented by term limits from seeking reelection.
Former Council member Robert Wein
Deputy Mayor Fran Nachlas and City Council member Andy Thomson are running to become Boca Raton’s next mayor in 2026, replacing Scott Singer, who is prevented by term limits from seeking reelection.
Thomson, who filed to run on April 2, was first ele
By Mary Hladky
Moving on an accelerated timeline, the Boca Raton City Council has approved an interim agreement with Terra and Frisbie Group that allows the joint venture to refine its conceptual plans for redeveloping the 30-acre downtown government
By Mary Hladky
After years of effort, the rebuilding of the Dixie Manor public housing project will begin soon.
Ashley Whidby, executive director of the Boca Raton Housing Authority, told Boca Raton City Council members in late January that half of D
Unofficial results
Source: Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections
Unofficial results
Source: Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections
City Council members voted unanimously on Aug. 22 to spend as much as $365,000 a year to pay the salaries of assistants who will help them with managing their schedules, policy research, communications and serving constituents.
The money allows for f
By Steve Plunkett
Downtown’s planned Wildflower/Silver Palm Park will have cheaper pavers and fewer trash bins, but City Council members looking to cut costs said they would find money to keep a $395,000 interactive water feature and a $556,000 rest
Jeremy Rogers thanked city residents in a video from Qatar. Photo provided
By Mary Hladky
Former Deputy Mayor Jeremy Rodgers, who was unable to complete his second term in office after his August deployment to Qatar in support of NATO operations in
By Steve Plunkett
The public has a new spot downtown to watch boat traffic on the Intracoastal Waterway.
City officials opened the Wildflower site, at the northwest corner of the Palmetto Park Road bridge over the waterway, to pedestrians and v
By Steve Plunkett
The city-owned Wildflower parcel on the Intracoastal Waterway now has the papers to prove it’s a park.
City Council members changed the site’s designation on Boca Raton’s comprehensive land-use plan to “recreation and open
Contractor Weeks Marine pumps sand from the shoal just outside the Boca Raton Inlet on March 28. The shoal sand was placed on beaches south of the inlet. Photo by Palm Beach County
By Steve Plunkett
The city’s dredge contractor was asked to cut
The city of Boca Raton’s municipal election will take place March 14, as five candidates will compete for two seats on the City Council. The winners will serve three-year terms.
Profiles compiled by Steven J. Smith
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Patti Dervishi
By Steve Plunkett
Mayor Susan Haynie painted election rival Al Zucaro as a visionless complainer; Zucaro in turn said that under Haynie’s watch, problems in the city never get resolved.
And so it went at a candidate forum Feb. 6 sponsored by th
Beachgoers walk by dredging equipment on South Beach Park. The beach renourishment project
between the Boca Raton Inlet and Red Reef Park has resumed after a nine-month hiatus.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Steve Plunkett
City officials hope to
By Steve Plunkett
The sale of the Ocean Breeze golf course to the public and the addition of more sports fields at De Hoernle Park have official blessings from the Greater Boca Raton Beach & Park District and the City Council.
Meeting together
By Sallie James
A controversial plan to build an upscale restaurant on a 2.3-acre parcel near the Intracoastal Waterway and East Palmetto Park Road is moving forward.
Deputy Boca Raton City Manager George Brown announced plans for the Wildflowe
By Sallie James
Should the city hold a special election to fill a vacant City Council seat or should council members continue appointing someone to the opening? It’s a question at least one elected official continues to ponder.
City Council mem
By Steve Plunkett
Talk of the city annexing five subdivisions north of Clint Moore Road has the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District crying foul.
District commissioners were already chafed by the 2013 annexation of the Royal Palm polo gro
By Steve Plunkett
The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District is sending a counterproposal filled with additions and deletions to the City Council, which wants “sole discretion” to make changes at parks.
The district and the council now must
