By Jane Smith
The fate of the old Boynton High School is on the front burner again. On March 17, an architectural consultant gave city commissioners three options for its Town Square: Renovate the high school, partially restore it and save its faç
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By Jane Smith and Willie Howard
Boynton Harbor Marina customers are paying $5 for parking on Fridays through Sundays, after its Community Redevelopment Agency board nixed negotiations with a landowner to provide free parking.
CRA staff was neg
Boynton Beach Mayor Jerry Taylor dedicates the Downtown Heritage Trail plaque in honor of Janet Hall,
a boat captain and co-founder of the Sea Mist fishing company, during a March 18 ceremony.
Standing with Taylor are Hall’s daughter, Judi Garnsey An
By Jane Smith
The Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency did not skip a beat when Ken Spillias stepped aside as its attorney.
At its February meeting, Spillias sat in the audience and another law firm colleague, Tara Duhy, took his place on the
By Jane Smith
The state plans a massive upgrade to the Woolbright Road interchange during a two-year process.
The $8.98 million design-build project is expected to start in August, according to Barbara Kelleher, spokeswoman for the Florida
The projected view of the project at the southwest corner of Ocean and Federal.
Rendering provided
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach finally has a project to jump-start its mostly vacant downtown.
The city’s Community Redevelopment Agency boa
Daily Yoga has a dozen workouts, its voice-over instructions are clear
and the poses are demonstrated on video.
Photos provided
Forbes had high praise for Hot5 Fitness,
free for limited use or $2.99 a month for unlimited use.
Snap a photo of your
By Jane Smith
Business owners at the Boynton Harbor Marina can exhale now that the city has found a short-term solution to a vexing parking problem.
At the January meeting of the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency board, CRA staff received t
Children pose at their desks inside the old Boynton School, circa 1959. Today, the building is home to the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum & Learning Center. Photo provided
By Amy Woods
It’s not unusual for former students of the old Boynton School to
The International Kinetic Art Exhibit will fill downtown Boynton Beach with art in motion.
By Jane Smith
Fine art will meet hard science when Boynton Beach hosts the International Kinetic Art Exhibit and Symposium Feb. 7 and 8. The event and year
The Grass River Garden Club provided beautiful holiday floral arrangements for the pediatric staff
at Bethesda Health. ‘I know the flowers brightened the nurses’ day,’ said Andrea H. Lambrakis,
community relations coordinator for Betheda Health, in a
Alexis Base of Boynton Beach enjoys going to Ocean Inlet Park
with her family. The eighth-grader’s latest science project focuses on using
autonomous underwater vehicles to recognize and potentially harvest
non-native lionfish, which damage Florida’
There was a time I’d stopped going because the checkout line sometimes smelled like urine and the parking lot hosted panhandlers. Still, the location was convenient and there were a few items I preferred over the Publix across the street. So I wi
In the Dec. 17 Palm Beach Post it was reported that two Boynton women in the Marina Village condominium’s penthouse apartment were arrested on charges relating to illegal drugs and prostitution.
I am very disappointed in the lack of openness
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach has another white knight charged with a big task of helping to jump-start its downtown.
This time, restaurant broker Tom Prakas has exclusive listings on two historic properties: the Ruth Jones cottage and the Oscar
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach officials wanted to keep their federal housing grants, so they are renovating their City Hall parking lot to comply with disability guidelines.
“The city receives funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Deve
By Willie Howard
Two women were arrested in the penthouse of the Marina Village condominium at Boynton Harbor Marina on Dec. 12 after meeting an undercover police officer in the parking garage and offering him sex and drugs.
According to a Boy
Charterboat captains listen to a presentation by CRA staff on Dec. 9. Photos by Jerry Lower and Willie Howard/The Coastal Star
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By Willie Howard
Free public parking at Boynton Harbor Marina could
Joey Weiss started Joey’s Home Bakery — Gluten Free in Boynton Beach — because her husband,
Victor, has celiac disease that makes him allergic to gluten. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Steve Pike
Urgent necessity, Spanish author Miguel de Cerva
Shelves begin to empty in December at the Winn-Dixie in Boynton Beach’s Riverwalk Plaza.
The store is planned to close by mid-January.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
If you shop at the Winn-Dixie in Riverwalk Plaza on the corner of Federal Highway
