By Jane Smith
Oceanfront Park will soon have upgraded playground equipment and a fitness area for adults after Boynton Beach city commissioners approved the $150,000 project in early October.
Kompan Inc., a Texas-based playground equipment maker, aw
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Il Circolo, the Italian Cultural Society, had its first event of the season in celebration of Italian Heritage Month. A gathering of 80-plus enjoyed dinner al fresco. Spirited music entertained diners who joined in singing and dancing. Throughout the
In addition to generating 200 kilowatts of power per hour for FPL, two large solar arrays provide shaded parking at Boynton Beach’s Oceanfront Park. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Lona O’Connor
If you happen to score one of the parking spaces under
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach city employees are working in temporary spaces for the next 18 to 24 months while new buildings are constructed in Town Square. City meetings have moved to the Intracoastal Park clubhouse on their regularly scheduled days
Boynton Beach officials and others gathered for the tearing-down of the old Civic Center, at 128 E. Ocean Ave. City employees moved in August to temporary space. After the city hall at 100 E. Boynton Beach Blvd. is demolished, the site will be clear
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach plans to finish moving city services in September to make way for the 16-acre Town Square project.
City Hall staff moved in the last two weeks of August to a temporary site at 3301 Quantum Blvd., Suite 100. Phone numbers a
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach is moving closer to allowing dogs on the beach at Oceanfront Park.
A majority of city commissioners agreed Aug. 21 to a trial event proposed by Wally Majors, recreation and parks director.
The event will be free and open t
Driftwood moved into the space previously occupied by Scully’s on South Federal Highway. Photo provided
By Jan Norris
Boynton Beach is seeing a mini boom in restaurants — with many locally owned choices — signaling a shot at becoming a destination
The Plate: Diavola di Alessandro pizza
The Place: That’s Amore, 308 N. Federal Highway, Boynton Beach; 536-4100 or www.pizzeriathatsamore.com.
The Price: $13.95
The Skinny: This dish is all about the crust, which was lighter than air and crisp.
It wa
By Jane Smith
The Delray Beach mayor measures the drop in overdoses by the sound of silence.
“We no longer hear the sirens blaring from rescue vehicles racing to the next overdose,” said Mayor Shelly Petrolia. “It used to happen several times a day.
By Jane Smith
Commuters will have to endure at least another three months of construction at the Woolbright Road/Interstate 95 interchange and another month at the Hypoluxo Road interchange.
The Woolbright interchange needs more work and is expected
By Jane Smith
Barrier island residents may see some water-related changes starting in October after Boynton Beach passes its $91.1 million budget.
Condo residents of four complexes south of Woolbright Road in Ocean Ridge will be part of a $400,000 re
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach residents and others using city services will have to be patient for the next two years while the city builds out its Town Square complex.
Civic buildings, including the City Hall, Public Library and Fire Station 1, will b
A scene from the Boynton Beach Playhouse's production of Cliffhanger. The theater needs new headquarters after the Madsen Center closed to make way for Town Square. Photo provided
By April W. Klimley
It’s been two months since the Boynton Beach Play
Boynton Beach showed off its latest effort to help people with disabilities with its EZ Kayak Launch at Harvey E. Oyer Jr. Park on the Intracoastal Waterway. The EZ Kayak Launch, which provides a lift in and out of the water, cost $58,870 to purchase
Final social event stirs a half-century of memories
Jean Fletcher and Claude Donawa enjoy a final dance together at the Boynton Beach Civic Center. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
Walls go up, and walls come down, and in between
By Jane Smith
The new Boynton Beach police chief, Michael G. Gregory, will start July 9.
Gregory, assistant police chief in Fort Lauderdale, was selected by the Boynton Beach city manager in mid-June from 83 applicants.
He is negotiating the contra
Related story: Irma: What we learned
By Jane Smith
When Hurricane Irma swept through southern Palm Beach County last September, power poles snapped like twigs, wind-driven debris blocked streets and residents sat powerless for days amid temperatures
Former Ocean Ridge Commissioner Ed Brookes said he got nowhere trying to persuade Boynton Beach to drop the idea of creating a dog beach at Oceanfront Park when he attended the city’s commission meeting in May. Brookes criticized town officials for n
Boynton Beach city employees work May 24 to repair a water main break that disrupted traffic at Ocean Avenue and A1A and forced the city to stop water service to about a dozen Ocean Ridge homes. They patched the pavement and put up a barricade until
