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Debbie Englert and Audrey Taranda of Boynton Beach serve meals to people in need at the Soup Kitchen of Boynton Beach, which on a typical day feeds about 400. The group also uses volunteers to distribute food for the holiday. Tim Stepien/The Coastal

By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley

The nature center building at Green Cay Nature Center and Wetlands (12800 Hagen Ranch Road, Boynton Beach) will be closed beginning this month for new roof construction.

But during the four to six months the work will requi

Nick Saunders holds a blackfin tune he caught north of Boynton Inlet while fishing with Capt. Chris Lemieux of Boynton Beach. Photo provided by Lemieux Charters.

By Willie Howard

Pound for pound, blackfin tuna are amazingly strong.

When ocean ang

Mom helps organize inaugural fundraiser

Reilly Gardner, 4, reacts to sea turtles on display at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center. Photo by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

By Joyce Reingold

Reilly Gardner, an inquisitive 4-year-old with a headful of spring

A yellow sulphur butterfly takes flight after laying eggs on the leaves of a candle bush plant near the Okeeheelee Nature Center’s main building. Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley

Okeeheelee Nature Center, situated wi

By Amy Woods

The Junior League of the Palm Beaches is recruiting middle school students from South County to sign up for the 2019-2020 Cotillion Academy.
The academy — one of the league’s oldest legacy programs as it enters its 62nd year— teaches dan

Jeff Stoops, Marti LaTour and Frank Compiani. Photo provided by Tracey Benson Photography

The Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties welcomed nearly 500 guests to the annual event that highlights key findings from the On the Table in

By Christine Davis

Boca Raton Regional Hospital has officially merged with Baptist Health South Florida.
The final merger was announced on July 1, more than a year after Boca Regional began discussions with Baptist in hopes of elevating the hospital

Christine Johnson (left) shows a visiting family the Children’s Museum butterfly garden,

including a 2-foot-wide kinetic sculpture metal butterfly.

Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley

    The next time you are near the

Jennifer Urbanek leads a shark feeding at the Sandoway Discovery Center. Sharkfest is Jan. 21.

File photo/The Coastal Star

By Steve Pike

    Sharks — they’re among the fiercest creatures in the Earth’s oceans. They’re also among the most misunderst

This gray fox is a frequent visitor to Briny Breezes.

Photo courtesy Marcela Viglianchino

By Cheryl Blackerby

    In early morning, a gray fox peeked out of dense foliage by the Little Club golf course in Gulf Stream and trotted with its distinctive

Luke Hemsher, 7, of Boynton Beach, takes off from a ramp at Hobbit Skate Park at the 505 Teen Center in Delray Beach.
Photos by Taylor Jones/The Coastal Star

By Janis Fontaine

    It seems parents are always wondering what to do with the kids for the

The gallery space at Benzaiten Center for Creative Arts in Lake Worth.
Photos by
Tim Stepien/
The Coastal Star

By Lucy Lazarony

    A historic Florida East Coast Railway depot near downtown Lake Worth has been transformed into a new creative arts cente

The $2 million enclosed tanks at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center
have opened to the public. Visitors can look down into the tanks,
one of which is planted with mangroves. Below the deck are windows
for peering into the tank. Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coa

James T. Heverin

BOCA RATON — Gumbo Limbo Nature Center was near and dear to James T. Heverin’s heart. He spent many hours there as a volunteer.

So when Mr. Heverin died last month, the family asked that donations in his memory go to the nature cen