A resident maneuvers a golf cart into Briny Breezes, where the use of non-street-legal golf carts
such as this one has been determined to be illegal.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Drive your golf cart on a public road in Ocean Ridg
By Dan Moffett
Briny Breezes and other mobile home communities that complained for months about their insurance problems appear finally to have gotten through to Tallahassee.
Citizens Property Insurance has announced that it will begin acceptin
By Jane Smith
Ocean Ridge, Briny Breezes and county pocket residents will soon have drinking water without added fluoride.
Their water supplier, Boynton Beach Utilities, took one of its two fluoride tanks offline at the end of January and the
By Dan Moffett
Rob Sivitilli might have finally run out of ideas for saving his family’s building at 5011 N. Ocean Blvd. in Ocean Ridge.
Two more chances for a reprieve fell apart during the Town Commission meeting on March 2.
Commissione
By Steve Pike
Talk about killer real estate. Ocean Ridge resident Terry Halfhill’s third self-published novel, The Briny Brotherhood, tells the purely fictional story of living, killing and dying in Briny Breezes as the book’s different characte
By Dan Moffett
Rob Sivitilli’s crusade to rescue the family’s imperiled 5011 building is looking for help from an unlikely white knight.
It’s Briny Breezes.
After failing to win approval for an ordinance that would grandfather the bu
Kevin Dwyer hands off a pile of paper and cardboard to be recycled to Roy Miller.
These Briny Breezes volunteers — along with Roger Hebert — were riding in a trailer
driven by Ken Doyle during a recent recycling run.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
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Christine Ashburn, Citizens insurance VP, works with Candy Alexandra to review her insurance policy.
With Sen. Maria Sachs looking on, Bobby Jurovaty encourages members of the crowd to talk to their agents.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
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By Dan Moffett
Briny Breezes residents will get a rare chance to go one-on-one with state officials over property insurance issues when state Sen. Maria Sachs holds a workshop in the town’s ocean clubhouse beginning at 1 p.m. on Oct. 7.
Sachs,
More than 50 surfers (part of a crowd of more than 200) paddled out
offshore of Briny Breezes to say farewell to Ben Friedman.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Ben was an avid surfer.
2011 photo provided by Bill Breze
BRINY BREEZES — Ben Friedman,
For two years after we moved into our office at 5011 N. Ocean Blvd., people would stop in asking where the dry cleaner was. They looked crestfallen when I explained the locations of two businesses across the bridge.
At least once a week throug
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach real estate broker James Arena wants to preserve the funky Florida lifestyle where beach access is everything.
In mid-August, he starred in a 3-minute video to make surfers and other beachgoers aw
By Jane Smith
Starting Oct. 1, residents in Ocean Ridge and Briny Breezes will pay more for an ambulance ride provided by Boynton Beach Fire Rescue.
For a basic ambulance ride, the transport fee will increase by nearly 75 percent to $610, a
CORRECTION: This story incorrectly describes the hiring of three employees by Briny Breezes. The town received six applications for deputy town clerk, two for bookkeeper and one for meter reader. Town Attorney John Skrandel advised the Town Council
By Emily J. Minor
BRINY BREEZES — Helen Deniston — a widow who lost her first husband to cancer, took up square dancing to ease her grief, then fell in love with the partner of her dreams — died July 21 from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. S
By Jane Smith
Ocean Ridge and Briny Breezes residents will not have to worry about fire-rescue response times next summer, thanks to a directive given to Boynton Beach’s city manager at the city’s annual budget workshops, held July 21-22.
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By Dan Moffett
Briny Breezes is looking at a budget for the new fiscal year that is largely a mirror image of last year’s numbers.
During July budget workshops, Town Council members gave preliminary approval to keeping the current tax rate of $
By Dan Moffett
Council members have approved extending an agreement with Palm Beach County that helps the town and its residents to apply for federal HUD assistance. But it wasn’t easy.
The council first said no to approving the extension on
Graphic by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
It had all the makings of an end-of-season cocktail party on Coquina Road.
Red and white wines, crudités and dip, flatbreads, bruschetta and cookies were served. The setting was an oceanfr
By Dan Moffett
Town Council President Sue Thaler says Briny Breezes got its “wrist slapped” in December when the Palm Beach County Office of Inspector General released a report criticizing how the town does its business.
But it was really m
