Brenda Dooley presents Dana Littlefield with two quilts, one for himself and another for his brother Nelson Littlefield. Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Quilters surprise veterans with mementos to cherish
By Ron Hayes
What do you say to a mil
By Joe Capozzi
As Briny Breezes Council President Sue Thaler sees it, there was nothing nefarious about her efforts to gather feedback from residents about a hot topic around town — proposed code changes that would help homes adapt to rising sea lev
By Joe Capozzi
Releasing balloons and sky lanterns into the sky can be a festive and visually stunning sight. In Briny Breezes, it may soon be outlawed.
Concerned about the environmental impacts after what goes up eventually comes down, the Town Co
BRINY BREEZES — Patricia M. Barnes, the valentine of her mulitgenerational family, died Feb. 14 after a two-month illness. She was 103.
Born Tressa May Gorham on May 25, 1918, she and her twin brother, Charles, were among the eight children of Tressa
The Butterfly Garden, formerly the Shade House Garden, is near the corner of State Road A1A and Briny Breezes Boulevard. Photo provided
This is the fourth in a series on five local garden clubs.
By Jan Engoren
What, you may ask, is the Briny Way?
Bri
Manalapan’s fourfold increase in two years leads an unprecedented wave of $20 million sales along coast
By Larry Barszewski
Real estate buyers had no vaccine to protect them from luxury home prices that hit stratospheric levels in 2021. A record num
Related story: Senate seats changing as well
By Joel Engelhardt
For the past decade, coastal residents have had a single Florida House member representing them in Tallahassee.
This year that’s going to change.
Somewhat mournfully, state Rep. Mike Ca
By Joe Capozzi
Residents in Briny Breezes and Ocean Ridge can expect to see more police activity this year — and a greater chance police will stop them — because of a new program aimed at deterring potential criminals from “casing” those towns.
“We
In March, the Florida Coalition for Preservation will celebrate its 15th year of community service.
We began in response to a neighborhood crisis. In 2007, a Canadian firm had made a “too good to be true” offer to acquire the tiny town of Briny Breez
By Ron Hayes
BRINY BREEZES — When the U.S. Army’s 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment dropped into Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, Ed Manley’s job was to help blow up four Nazi cannons overlooking Omaha Beach.
He was 22 and lived to tell about it.
On
Hank Davis of Delray Beach rescued this green turtle while fishing along the beach in Briny Breezes. Photo provided
By Larry Keller
As if a green turtle dubbed Brontosaurus didn’t have enough obstacles to reaching old age — ingestion of and entanglem
Even on a cool, foggy morning like Jan. 28, Old Ocean Boulevard is busy with pedestrians, pets, bicyclists and occasional motor vehicle traffic. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Joe Capozzi
Ocean Ridge officials are seeking volunteers to serve on a ta
By Joe Capozzi
The thieves rode in on a jet ski.
Under cover of darkness, they boarded boats tied to docks in Ocean Ridge and Briny Breezes and sped off with tens of thousands of dollars in high-end electronic equipment and fishing gear.
In all, 18 p
Related story: Obituary: Allen ‘Chick’ Behringer
By Joe Capozzi
In their first meeting since the Jan. 11 death of Alderman Allen “Chick” Behringer, Briny Breezes Town Council members offered tributes to his service and moved quickly to fill the vacan
Rich Curtis of Briny Breezes, enjoying a game with his friend Ron Vaughn, has played shuffleboard for 12 years. It took him only a year to qualify as a pro. Now he has earned induction into the Southeast Coast District Hall of Fame of the Florida Shu
By Dan Moffett
BRINY BREEZES — When the Town Council had an open seat in 2016, Allen “Chick” Behringer stepped up and volunteered to fill it.
He said Briny Breezes had been good to him since his first visit in 2002, and now that he had left Long Isla
By Joe Capozzi
The thieves rode in on a jet ski.
Under cover of darkness, they boarded boats tied to docks in Ocean Ridge and Briny Breezes and sped off with tens of thousands of dollars in high-end electronic equipment and fishing gear.
In all, 18
Related Story: Opioid settlements, ‘way less’ than cost of crisis, get reluctant support
By Charles Elmore
After a rocky 2020, fewer people died of overdoses in southern Palm Beach County cities during the first three quarters of 2021. Sometimes a
By Mary Hladky and Jane Smith
When a $26 billion deal was reached in July that required the pharmaceutical industry to help pay for the opioid addiction and overdose crisis, a framework was established to get that money to thousands of communities th
By Joe Capozzi
Briny Breezes is about to replace all 69 light fixtures in town with new energy-efficient LED lights.
The Town Council on Dec. 9 approved a plan to have Florida Power & Light replace the fixtures sometime in 2022.
The new fixtures, pa
