By Cheryl Blackerby
Dredging of Boynton Inlet, and some structural repairs due to damage from Hurricane Sandy, is scheduled to start in mid-February, but won’t affect public access.
“We had some minor damage in the sand transfer plant at the inlet,” sa
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Park Ranger Gery Moran puts out barricades after sunset to close off a portion of the parking lot at the Boynton Inlet. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Margie Plunkett
Ocean Inlet Park has gotten a new tenant — and its parking lot is being closed
By Tim O’Meilia
Spurred by the fears of oceanfront residents, Manalapan Police Chief Carmen Mattox has asked Palm Beach County recreation officials to close all of Ocean Inlet Park at sunset, including the south section in neighboring Ocean Ridge.
Chaplain Paul Underhay officiates at the wedding of
Diana Estep and Eduardo Jacome before moonrise. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
The groom was a little early. The moon was a little late.
At 6:15 p.m. on the last Saturday in
By Margie Plunkett
Ocean Ridge had full police coverage in county parks for the July Fourth holiday week, protected by marked and unmarked patrol cars, marine patrols, motorcycle officers and even a helicopter as the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Of
Boynton Beach to hear PBSO proposal at 6:30 p.m. on June 5.
By Angie Francalancia
In the roughly 18 months since the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office pulled its parks deputies and moved its marine patrol headquarters from the Boynton Inlet, police
A waterspout heads for shore north of the Boynton Inlet on the morning of May 22. This photo was taken from the beach boardwalk at Portofino Condominiums in Ocean Ridge. There were no reports of damage. Photo by Scott Harmon
A rookie Manalapan police officer ended a routine beach patrol with the dramatic rescue of two snorkelers from the Boynton Inlet.
Officer David Hul, who joined the force in December, reported he had just finished his patrol on
Hooligans in England used Facebook, Twitter and other social media as an almost instantaneous call to riot in London, Birmingham and other British cities.
Manalapan Police Chief Clay Walker hopes electronic communication will ha
The autumnal equinox arrives Sept. 23 and that means higher than usual spring tides could threaten to slosh down coastal streets this fall.
Huh? Spring tides in the fall?
“It all has to do with the Earth, the sun and the moon li
Recreational boaters and snorkelers gather along the north side of Bird Island, where Manalapan residents say their presence can be a nuisance. Photos by Jerry Lower
By Steve Plunkett
The summer sun is hot, and so are neighbors of the Boynton Inlet.
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By Tim O’Meilia
Thirty-odd years ago, a barely teen-aged Geoff Pugh and his brother would climb down to the rocks at the bottom of the north jetty of the Boynton Inlet and spear fish until a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputy shooed them away.
Other da
By Nirvi Shah
ThePalm Beach County Sheriff’s Marine Patrol unit no longer uses the Boynton Inlet as its headquarters and the area will also lose the deputies that patrol Ocean Inlet Park.
TheMarine Unit moved because of its cramped quarters and b
By Margie Plunkett
The South Lake Worth Inlet project just keeps pounding on and the rhythmic driving
will resound through the beginning of next year.
The pile driving at the inlet is part of a $7 million project that started last
year to rebuil
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By Antigone Barton
As the black cloud of oil from the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform neared the loop current that brings the Gulf Stream up the Atlantic coast, town managers,
administrators and rescue offici
By Mike Readling
When Palm Beach County installed 62, 1- to 2-ton pods just offshore from Ocean Ridge last year, the idea was to provide a breakwater for the beachrenourishment project it had in the works.
One of the byproducts of that venture was
By Margie Plunkett
The sand transfer plant at South Lake Worth Inlet is up and running, but the new silence of its electric motor may be offset by the pounding of pilings through March, according to Manalapan Mayor Tom Gerrard.
“The plant was dead