Staff members from Bank of America visited Adopt-A-Family of the Palm Beaches in December,
dropping off toys and handmade holiday cards for the students at the agency’s Project Grow afterschool program.
They also presented the agency’s CEO, Matthew C
The staff celebrates after Caffe Luna Rosa was named Restaurant of the Year
by the Greater Delray Beach Chamber of Commerce for the second year in a row.
Photo provided by Michiko Kurisu
By Christine Davis
Fite Shavell & Associates agent Jack El
The Sequin Delray Beach store will have to pay its business tax this financial year, four city commissioners agreed Oct. 20.
Manager Jodi Stein had requested a reprieve from paying the $172.56 business license fee because of the road construc
On Oct. 21, Lynn University President Kevin M. Ross announced that the Christine E. Lynn University Center
will be built through a $15 million challenge grant from board of trustees chair Christine E. Lynn.
The building will encompass the Hannifan Ce
Gulf Stream residents Bernard and Stephanie Molyneux are expanding their
ACP Home Interiors/Antiques & Country Pine business on Oct. 1 with a new, 8,000-square-foot store
at 850 N. Dixie Highway in Boca Raton.
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By Christin
Owner Rick Janke (right) takes a break against the bar as a worker sands the hardwood floor.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Thom Smith
Life in sleepy Delray Beach was a lot slower in 1953, and a lot simpler. A lot of water has passed under the
Sabrina Amelung poses outside The Monogram Closet in Delray Beach.
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By Scott Simmons
You could call Sabrina Amelung a Delray Beach pioneer.
Twelve years ago, long before Pineapple Grove had evolved into the hip area
Altamonte Springs-based LeCesse Development Corp.’s 500 Ocean broke ground July 9 on the southwest corner of Federal Highway and Ocean Avenue. The project, to be built in phases, will comprise 341 apartments, 13,300 square feet of retail space and 6,
By Christine Davis
In line with votes cast by Coastal Living magazine’s readers and website visitors, Delray Beach ranked third on its list of “The 10 Happiest Seaside Towns.”
Here’s what Coastal Living’s July/August issue has to say about De
One of the oceanside cabanas at Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa.
Photo provided
By Steve Pike
There was a time — not that long ago — when hotels and resorts along the beach had a “slow” season. The snowbirds were gone and the locals stayed home. Th
Paradise Bank executives: (front row, l-r) William J. Burke, Dennis Gavin, (back row, l-r) Ward Kellogg and David Englert.
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By Thomas R. Collins
Bill Burke walks through the main lobby of Paradise Bank’s Boca Raton br
Before and during construction, merchants on either side of the Intracoastal Waterway fretted about how the Ocean Avenue bridge closing would hurt their businesses. Now that the new span has opened, some confess it wasn’t so bad, after all. But other
Michael Mullin of Gulf Stream and Mary Windle of the Village of Golf
pose in the lobby of the Lang Realty office in Delray Beach.
Inset below: High-tech screens allow after-hours viewing
of photos and listing details from outside the office.
Photos b
InfraSweat owner Kelly Dorsey sits in one of her shop’s six infrared sauna chambers.
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By Paula Detwiller
There’s a new sweatshop in town.
No, not a factory where workers toil for long hours and low pay. A place where people go to swea
Between the two of them, Connie Wichman and owner Bruce Wenzel have worked more than 95 years at the store. Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
When Bruce Wenzel started operating Mercer Wenzel in 1958, he lived in F
Businesses at 5011 N. Ocean Blvd. can stay at least until June 2014.
Town commissioners decided to grant building owners Orlando and Liliane Sivitilli one extra year before they must move their tenants and convert the building to townhomes. The Sivit
By Thomas R. Collins
The decision by Caron Treatment Centers to spend millions of dollars to buy two large houses near the ocean in Delray Beach is designed to expand the organization’s addiction-treatment offerings.
It could also be seen as a shrew
