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The gates to Gumbo Limbo have been locked and revenues have dropped significantly in the past year during the coronavirus pandemic. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

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Materials and tarps cover both of the unmoveable portions of the bridge over the Boca Raton Inlet in late August. The bridge is getting a cleaning and new paint. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

By Steve Plunkett

The bridge over the Boca Raton Inlet, wh

By Charles Elmore 

An emergency order puts beaches out of bounds for the Fourth of July weekend across Palm Beach County.
The county’s order to temporarily close beaches joined similar decrees in Miami-Dade and Broward counties aimed at avoiding larg

By Charles Elmore 

 An emergency order puts beaches out of bounds for the Fourth of July weekend across Palm Beach County.

  The county's order to close beaches temporarily joins similar decrees in Miami-Dade and Broward counties aimed at avoiding la

By Jane Smith

The Woolbright Road Bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway should be open to all marine traffic sometime before March 4, according to Barry Meve, Palm Beach County bridge superintendent.
The bridge spans were locked down on Feb. 18 after

Seasonal high tides inundated the walkway along the docks at Veterans Park in Delray Beach on Nov. 25. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

By Jane Smith

Delray Beach closed its public boat docks at Veterans Park in late November while it assesses the stabi

 Palm Beach County will be closing the Linton Boulevard Bridge across the Intracoastal Waterway the next two weekends to perform maintenance on the span.

 The bridge will be closed from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. each day to vehicle and pedestrian traffic on

The historic Boca Club Bridge on Camino Real should reopen June 20 after temporary steel pilings are installed.

“We’re trying to safe it up,” said Charlie Rich of county engineering services. “We have to put four holes in the middle of the bridge to