By Tim Pallesen
The race has begun between Delray Beach and Boca Raton to decide which city opens a Trader Joe’s first.
The California-based specialty grocer announced last month that it will open a store on Sout
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Silt shoals and sandbars make navigating the Hillsboro Canal dangerous for mariners.
Photo provided by Marina One
By Cheryl Blackerby
Boaters are having a tough time navigating around dangerous silt shoals that have built up in the Hillsboro C
With panoramic water views, One Thousand Ocean appeals to affluent buyers.
Photo provided
By Christine Davis
During the past year, there have been eight luxury condo sales for more than $5 million in Boca Raton — and all of them at One Thousand
By Cheryl Blackerby
Boca Raton Beach and Park District commissioners are working on a $19.5 million budget for capital improvements that will force them to make some tough decisions this summer.
One of the toughest is explaining to Boca Rat
By Steve Plunkett
Did you find a parking space for the city’s Fourth of July celebration at Spanish River Athletic Complex at DeHoernle Park?
If you did, you may be trekking back there in November to watch the lighting of the city’s Christm
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
By Mary Thurwachter
Among the county’s top high school graduates this year were two familiar faces — Alex Nusbickel, valedictorian of Boca Raton High School, and Christine Lauren Sullivan, salutatorian of Pope John Paul II High School.
Nu
More than 300 people turned out downtown on June 20, including these children from Miss Fran’s
Early Learning Center in Boca Raton, to take part in a unique book brigade. It was the manner
chosen to accomplish the move of the last 100 books, one by
By Steve Plunkett
More than a month before the new downtown library opened, the Friends of the Library started beating the drums for more money.
“Ours is a world-class city, and it is imperative that our libraries be world-class as well,” S
By Steve Plunkett
The latest incarnation for the planned Via Mizner project calls for a few more residential units, much less office space and more retail square footage in the project at the corner of Camino Real and Federal Highway.
The c
An impressive display of sparkling gems from New York City’s Jeri Cohen Fine Jewelry, as well as
limited-edition Louis Vuitton handbags from Lauren Schachter’s Palm Beach Closet, helped raise
$40,000 for the South Palm Beach Chapter of the National
The distribution of more than $580,000 in scholarships to 80 local students rang in the George Snow
Scholarship Fund’s 31st anniversary. Each scholar also received a gift bag stuffed with $1,000 worth of items —
everything from a laptop computer to
The Friends of the Conservatory of Music, a volunteer organization that raises education funds
for student performers, named four new members to its board of directors for the 2013-14 academic year.
Kathy Dickenson (right), Barbara Gutin (center), K
Shopping for scholarships was the theme of a fundraiser at the renowned men’s clothing store
benefiting Florida Atlantic University’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters.
A total of 25 percent of merchandise sales came back to the college
The annual Walk of Recognition, presented by the Boca Raton Historical Society, added new stars at a ceremony on May 9 under the Mizner statue at Royal Palm Place. The new stars are for Mike Arts and Barbara and Irving Gutin. Arts was presiden
Tarps cover benches to keep them dust-free in the new Boca Raton Library.
Jon Castro of B&I Contractors checks the ceiling in the young readers area.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Furniture in a reading area is protected by dropcloths.
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Vito Damiani, of Mr. Vito Men’s Hair Designers, gives a massage to Boca resident Jerry Martin.
Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
‘Fonzi’ Palmieri trims Alexandra Pena (left) at Colby’s Barber Shop in Ocean Ridge. Shop owner
Lino Marmorato (cent
Members of the Boca Raton Community High School unit of the Navy Junior ROTC
stand at attention during a Memorial Day Observance at the Boca Raton City Cemetery.
Philip Vale, WWII USCGC, and fellow veterans honor members of the military
who were kil
Sea Ranch Club’s entrance is dominated by native sabal palms.
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By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
On May 15, a perfect spring day, about 30 people gathered in the council chambers at Boca Raton City Hall to learn what properties were the r
By Cheryl Blackerby
Officials in Boca Raton and Delray Beach were surprised and elated when they were notified by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in early May that they will receive long-awaited restoration money for beaches damaged by Hurricane
