By Rich Pollack
Hoping to streamline the code enforcement hearing process and ensure cases can be heard in a timely manner, Highland Beach commissioners last month approved a two-tiered system utilizing a magistrate for complex violation cases and a
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Museum Director Irvin Lippman says the school ‘is definitely staying in Boca Raton,’ but that the 60-year-old building must be replaced at some point.
Larry Barszewski/The Coastal Star
Related: Summer arrives with no plan for art classes at Crest Th
By Mary Hladky
Residents wishing to address the City Council will have to speak quickly.
Council members approved an ordinance on Nov. 14 that reduces the time allotted to people who want to weigh in on city matters from 5 minutes to 3.
The intent is
By Mary Hladky
It’s now official: George Brown will become city manager on Jan. 1, taking the reins from Leif Ahnell, who has held that position for 24 years.
City Council members did not comment on the transition when they unanimously approved Brown
By Rich Pollack
It has been the target of town leaders for more than a decade, with commission after commission taking aim but never being able to shoot down Highland Beach’s notorious spending cap.
Now the commission’s $350,000 spending limit on any
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach leaders think a state law requiring many condos to stash sizable sums of dollars in reserves following the 2021 high-rise collapse in Surfside is at best unnecessary and at worst an astounding stretch of authority.
Now
The newly named The Studio, at the south end of Mizner Park, will feature Rock and Roll Playhouse musical shows in January, February and March aimed at parents and young children. Photo provided
By Mary Hladky
The Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center h
By Rich Pollack
Change may soon be coming to the processes many pilots use as they arrive and depart the airspace surrounding the Boca Raton Airport, but chances are they’ll hardly be noticeable to most residents.
For months, the Federal Aviation Admi
By Jane Smith
Parking at Oceanfront Park and Harvey Oyer Jr. Park will become more expensive in some cases starting Oct. 1.
At Oceanfront Park, four meter kiosks will be added and in operation from 7 a.m. until 9 p.m., Boynton Beach city commissione
By Mary Hladky
Brightline’s parent company is scrapping a “strategic partnership” with British billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Enterprises, and its Miami-to-West Palm Beach rail service once again will be known as Brightline.
The company announce
The heavily traveled ‘free flow’ lane at the southeast corner of Federal Highway and Southeast Mizner Boulevard will be replaced this summer with a squared-off right-turn lane. Pedestrian crosswalks at the intersection will be improved. Photo provid
By Dan Moffett
There will be no March election in Manalapan because all Town Commission candidates went unopposed.
But residents will see a sweeping overhaul of government leadership just the same.
Three new commissioners, a new mayor a
Brenda Gordon works on a commissioned painting at Artists Alley in Delray Beach. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Related story: Delray seeks grants, partner for plan to revive arts district
By Rich Pollack
The artists who remain in Artists Alley are
Rendering provided by Singer Architects of Fort Lauderdale
By Jane Smith
The Palm Beach County Park Airport (Lantana airport) will get a new operator in April, the first change in 60 years. And with that new operator will come $5.5 million in imp
Damian Presiga, of Britannia Pacific Properties retrieves the Ritz-Carlton lion logo as Gaddi Dominguez takes down the rest of the Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach sign on July 1 in Manalapan.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Manalapan: Ritz name change concerns
Designed to feel like an old farmhouse, the breezeway of Lantana airport has Old Florida charm.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
Former Manalapan Mayor Kelly Gottlieb loves flying out of the Lantana airport.
She points to its Old Flo
One of the best-known and most admired brand names in the world is Ritz-Carlton. It connotes glamour, elegance and luxury. For over 20 years, The Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach was our little “ritzy” spot.
Of course, we’d chuckle at that “Palm Beach” ta
A temporary sign for the Eau Palm Beach was installed July 1. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Tim O’Meilia
The former Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach is now the Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa.
But eau so many Manalapan residents dislike the new name
Situated among the trees and mountains along the scenic Hudson River, Kingston, New York seems far away from the salty blue waves of the Atlantic and South Florida. Yet, just 100 miles inland from the World Trade Center, at the southern tip of Manha
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach voters maintain the final say on the town’s big-ticket purchases, but commissioners can now sign off on spending up to roughly $1 million on a single item or project without a referendum.
Commissioners voted to change
