Boca Raton will be the backdrop of a new bowl game to be played at Florida Atlantic University’s football stadium starting in December 2014.
Football fans in the South, Northeast and Midwest will be treated to television cameos of the city as
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By Steve Plunkett
In a word, visitors to Gumbo Limbo Nature Center want more.
As in, “more from the center as well as at the center,” Judy Gire said while presenting a five-year strategic plan for Gumbo Limbo to the Greater Boca Raton Beach
By Steve Plunkett
Boca Raton will not send money to pay for the inspector general until a lawsuit by it and 13 other municipalities is resolved challenging how the office is funded.
The cities filed suit two years ago saying the county’s pr
A woman was killed near the Chalfonte condominiums, and Boca Raton police responding to a “shots fired” call Oct. 20 killed her husband, whom they found armed on the shoulder of South Ocean Boulevard.
Dead were Germana Burlakoff, who had tur
By Steve Plunkett
A federal contractor paid by the city will have its dredge off Boca Raton’s south beaches the first week of November.
City Council members waived normal bidding procedures Oct. 22 to take advantage of Marinex Construction
The Wick Theatre opened in September and on Nov. 15 Marilynn A. Wick and her daughter, Kimberly Wick, will open the Costume Museum at the Wick Theatre. The museum will bring to life 100 years of costume designs. The costume museum opening is the
By Jane Smith
BOCA RATON — Sandra L. Cook died in the arms of her son and daughter at the Manor Care Nursing Home in Delray Beach on Sept. 23.
Mrs. Cook, 68, died from complications of the rare disease cortical basal ganglion degeneration,
Cherokee purple tomatoes from Farmhouse Tomatoes, available at the West Palm Beach GreenMarket.
Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Customers check out spices for sale at the Delray Beach GreenMarket.
Christy’s Bakery offers an array of pastries
Dr. Andrew Turkell works with Midnight at the hyperbaric oxygen chamber at Calusa Veterinary.
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Although Roco, a 3-pound Yorkie-poodle mix, and Midnight, a 40-pound Labrador retriever mix, have never met, they sha
Six Boca Raton residents will receive OPAL (Outstanding People and Leaders) Awards from the Rotary Club of Boca Raton at a ceremony in January. The club sponsored a reception in anticipation of the event to announce the names of recipients and the a
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.
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Impact 100 members Tina Smith, Lisa Morgan and Peg Greenspon welcome members and guests to a wine and cheese membership event with featured speaker Pam Figoras of The Parent Child Center. The center was Impact 100’s first grant recipient in 2012. F
The Place of Hope at the Haven Campus benefited from a special event that introduced more than two dozen women to the nonprofit organization’s mission and newly acquired facility. Arlene Hyman organized the stylish affair, and a portion of proceeds f
Dec. 2: Twenty celebrity bakers will compete for the grand prize trophy during a night
filled with unlimited desserts and pastries — all to benefit Dezzy’s Second Chance Animal Rescue Inc.
Time is 6-9 pm. Tickets are $30/advance and $35/door.
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The seventh annual reception raising awareness and money for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation offered auction prizes, including an autographed football by former Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula. ‘We raised over $3,000 this year with a very passio
Related story: Delray advocates ready to fetch allies for dog beach
By Steve Plunkett
Boca Raton already has Mizner Bark, its wildly popular park for dogs. Now it will cordon off part of the beach at Palmetto Park Road and State R
By Steve Plunkett
A months-long campaign of phone calls, emails and other gentle arm-twisting yielded a last-minute budget success for the Downtown Library: $60,000 for a new program services position.
Deputy Mayor Susan Haynie proposed addin
By Steve Plunkett
Work on a fifth “view window” along State Road A1A will soon give landlubbers — especially those in the Yacht & Racquet Club of Boca Raton — a better look at the Atlantic.
The Yacht & Racquet condo association will trim sea
By Steve Plunkett
The city’s workers are now protected against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity or expression, just like their counterparts in Palm Beach County government, the town of Palm Beach and Wal-Mart stores
By Ron Hayes
Sept. 10 was a very good day for Rand Hoch.
That morning, the Palm Beach County Commission voted unanimously to reimburse county employees for the federal tax they pay when adding an unmarried partner to the county health plan. T
