By Steve Plunkett
The Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency may be getting tired of the slowness of negotiations to lure a law firm and 200 new jobs downtown.
Board members voted Nov. 12 to give One Boynton LLC, which owns most of the
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Variegated crotons and multi-colored bromeliads are grouped along the Chicago brick paths leading to the front door.
A variety of palms and white birds of paradise rise above the home in Boynton Beach.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
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Oceanfront Park has a new name: Boynton Beach Oceanfront Park.
Boynton Beach City Commissioner David Merker urged changing the park’s name to “Boynton Beach” in August and renewed his call Oct. 15 after the recreation and parks advisory board
By Steve Plunkett
Ocean Ridge Town Attorney Ken Spillias has extended his resume with a job he’s held before: lawyer for the Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency.
Spillias, who represented the CRA from 2004 to early 2007, was chosen o
Photography by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Lake Worth residents Anne Heggli (right) and Courtney Ricks take part in a Halloween volleyball game
on the beach Oct. 26 at Anchor Park in Delray Beach.
Participants portray Native Americans Oct. 19 dur
By Tim O’Meilia
Boynton Beach may be interested in buying Manalapan’s water system even as the town prepares to replace more than three miles of aging distribution lines that will cost more than $3 million.
Town commissioners unanimously appro
Museum educator Cheryl Lane interacts with Giovanna Fusca, 5,
Claudia Chow and Isabella Fusca, 4 as they create cards
during the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum & Learning Center centennial celebration.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
When Sandy McGre
As part of a new community-service project, Taste History, a nonprofit that gives food tours of South County, adopted Urban Farm and organized its first harvest. The seeds were sown by student volunteers from American Heritage School Boca Delray, as
By Steve Plunkett
A new name is coming to Oceanfront Park, but whether it will be called Boynton Beach or Boynton Beach Oceanfront Beach Park or something else altogether remains to be seen.
Boynton Beach city commissioners wrestled Aug. 20 with what t
Margaret Ann Lembo, owner of The Crystal Garden in Boynton Beach, leads a group in singing happy 25th birthday to the New Age store. The daylong event included a Q&A session with Lembo, as well as free gemstone and psychometric readings.
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The new Galaxy Elementary School in Boynton Beach will be the greenest school campus in the state when it opens this month. At its heart is a two-story Wonderment Center, a gathering and learning spot.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Former Ga
There was plenty of room to run during Colonial Animal Hospital’s open house.
Below, Dr. Rob Martin talks with Vicki Stallings and her 7-month-old dog, Xena.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Clarification
A business spotlight in August about Co
By Steve Plunkett
The Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency will give away land under the Little House Restaurant and the Oscar Magnuson house — the city’s oldest structure — to lure a Delray Beach law firm and jumpstart development downt
Academy of the Arts middle-school students took center stage during three free performances
of ‘The Magical Land of Oz.’ Attendees included students from Title I and other area schools,
as well as the community-at-large. ‘We are so grateful for the
Please join us at 3 pm Saturday for the grand opening of Colonial Animal Hospital's new location at Federal Highway and Gateway Boulevard in Boynton Beach:
Margaret Blume is awarded a gift during the opening of the Blume Literacy Center on the Brenda and C.P. Medore Campus. Brenda and C.P. Medore are at left. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
As a child growing up in small-town Waxahatch
By Tim O’Meilia
Budget managers in eight of nine South County coastal communities can exhale.
Taxable real estate values — the stuff property taxes are made of — continues to creep back toward pre-recession levels.
Taxable property values i
Ann Marie Chiste gives one of the teachers a goodbye hug. Not only did she attend St. Mark, so did her three children. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Tim Pallesen
Word that St. Mark Catholic School was closing came one day after the last of Cand
By Tim O’Meilia
Crosswalks and pedestrian signals will be installed at A1A and Woolbright Road despite the objection of neighborhood residents and the Ocean Ridge Town Commission.
Five days after commissioners voted 3-1 to oppose the state-funded pro
By Tim O’Meilia
Bowing to the pleas of two dozen nearby residents, Ocean Ridge town commissioners took a stand against the installation of crosswalks at the Woolbright Road and A1A intersection but that opposition may not be enough to stop the proj
