By Dan Moffett
Briny Breezes is preparing to hire a special magistrate to resolve code disputes with homeowners when all else fails.
Though cases of noncompliance are rare, they have been troublesome for town officials and staff during the last three
By Rich Pollack
Saying they want to send a message that what they do is a job and not a hobby, Highland Beach town commissioners are moving ahead with plans to increase their salaries by 20% and add an annual cost-of-living increase.
In approving a r
Even after receiving COVID-19 vaccines, store manager Tom and Erin Craig, a pharmacist, wear protective masks in their Gulfstream Pharmacy whenever customers are present. The pharmacy has been in the family since 1957. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
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By Dan Moffett
Briny Breezes voters overwhelmingly approved a referendum in the March 9 municipal election that gives the town its first formal charter.
The vote was 96 to 8, a 92.3% endorsement of the new rules for governance.
The approval is the cu
By Dan Moffett
Keith Davis has been practicing government law in South Florida for two decades, so when he told Briny Breezes Town Council members that regulating signs was difficult, they knew things were going to get complicated.
But it might be ge
BRINY BREEZES — Paul William Ruopp of Briny Breezes and Brick, New Jersey, died on Feb. 22. He was 88.
Born on March 7, 1932, to Hans and Helen Ruopp in Roselle Park, New Jersey, Mr. Ruopp was a 1950 graduate of Roselle Park High School. There he was
Election Results:
By Dan Moffett
Mayor Gene Adams and Town Manager Bill Thrasher have been working to drive down the costs of holding a March 9 special election to consider a ballot referendum that would give Briny Breezes its first real town charte
By Dan Moffett
Town Manager Bill Thrasher was so disappointed by a Briny Breezes Town Council vote to postpone putting a charter amendment referendum on the March ballot that he considered resigning.
That was enough for the council to reverse itself
Mike and Deidre Neal (l-r) and their neighbors, Nick, Katherine and Mazie Malinoski, greet Mrs. Claus. Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
The coronavirus changed how municipalities celebrated the holidays, with the traditional large public gath
By Dan Moffett
The Briny Breezes Town Council wants to set up a COVID-19 vaccination pod, so that when vaccines become available, the town can deliver them quickly and efficiently to residents.
But like so many things in 2020, even the good ideas com
BRINY BREEZES — Michael W. Hill died Nov. 6, surrounded by his three children. He was 73.
Mr. Hill was born in Detroit to Albert and Pat Hill, and spent his formative years in northeast Ohio. He is survived by his three sisters: Susan Sack, Kathy Bar
Army veteran Ed Manley, 98, receives two ready-made meals, a loaf of bread and container of juice from John Sallee at his home in Briny Breezes. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
On June 6, 1944, a U.S. Army paratrooper named Ed Manley jumped
SEPT. 21 King tides and strong swells from tropical weather started the king tide season off with higher-than- expected flooding.
ABOVE: A stranded motorist calls for a tow truck after her car stalled out on Ocean Avenue in Ocean Ridge.
OCT. 19 Offsh
By Dan Moffett
The town of Briny Breezes has been running on a largely improvised collection of rules and regulations since its incorporation as a municipality in 1963.
That could change next year after the March election.
Briny voters will get the c
BRINY BREEZES — Virginia P. Brown, 91, died on Aug. 23. She was born in Detroit and started coming to Florida as a little girl.
She and her husband, Ralph, owned a home in Cape Coral before moving to Briny Breezes in 1983 as snowbirds. They were acti
By Dan Moffett
When it comes to preparing municipal budgets, Bill Thrasher has seen about every extreme South Florida has to offer.
Before taking over as Briny Breezes town manager in January, Thrasher spent 21 years as the manager next door in Gulf
By Charles Elmore
The 2020 Census arrives a decade after 1.4 million folks in Florida were left out of the nation’s last official head count, according to a federal review.
Up and down the coast, communities are scrambling to avoid undercounts as cen
Three incumbents and a political newcomer are running for three at-large Town Council seats March 17. The top three vote-getters win. A term lasts two years. — Steven J. Smith
Lynne Weiner,
By Dan Moffett
Briny Breezes council members asked their attorney, Keith Davis, to research election rules in the town charter, and he reported back with some intriguing news.
Briny doesn’t really have a charter.
“The town’s charter is basically the
