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9764500052?profile=RESIZE_584xClay Pape, a worker at Delray Beach Memorial Gardens, marks a place for a headstone. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

By Joe Capozzi

The hearses and cars kept coming. 
Under a cloudy October sky, they crawled in groups through the gates of Delray Beach M

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By Joyce Reingold

On Sept. 9, the Biden administration announced plans to require hospitals and health care facilities receiving Medicare and Medicaid funding to vaccinate their employees against the coronavirus.
“As the Delta variant continues to s

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By Mary Hladky

The massive $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan is providing much-welcomed relief to southeastern Palm Beach County cities and towns strained by the COVID-19 pandemic, but they aren’t rushing to spend the money.
They are proceeding caref

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By Joe Capozzi

Hoping to tap grant dollars available due to the coronavirus pandemic, Manalapan commissioners are trying to get a head start on an ambitious project they believe is inevitable — replacing the town’s septic tanks with a municipal sewer

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9351749482?profile=RESIZE_710xA vaccinated man gives a thumbs up during the Rev. Joseph Dawkins’ campaign to protect his congregation. Photo provided

By Janis Fontaine

For the Rev. Joseph Dawkins of St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Delray Beach, serving the senior community

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By Charles Elmore

Debates about how to grapple with COVID-19’s receding but not extinguished risks are hardly producing lockstep policies among Palm Beach County’s southern coastal communities as they sort through a dizzying flurry of federal, state

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8733425495?profile=RESIZE_710xCharles Milling and his son, Ellis, who was born last April during the pandemic shutdown. Photo provided

By Janis Fontaine

Is it too soon to call the coronavirus a gift?

For Charles Milling and millions of others, life slammed on its brakes a year a

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8622071698?profile=RESIZE_710xDozens of students, including kindergartner Sarah Lash, were marked with ashes on Ash Wednesday at St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church in Boynton Beach, using ingenuity in the form of 9-inch cotton-tipped applicators. Photo provided

 

By Janis Fontaine

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Love & Football

8507592478?profile=RESIZE_710xBeverlee and Howard Schnellenberger married in 1959. She proposed to him, and at first he said no. Photo Provided

Coach Schnellenberger’s wife shares stories, letters that show the couple’s enduring affection

 

By Brian Biggane

He played end on one C

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8507571280?profile=RESIZE_710xCo-Chairwomen Martha Grimm and Lisa Jankowski. Photo Provided

By Amy Woods

COVID-19 has affected nearly every aspect of business, personal and social life in South County and beyond, including the cherished charitable community.

Of the nonprofits who

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8507554477?profile=RESIZE_710xMembers of the Delray Medical Center nursing team gather for a photo as they celebrate receiving the 2020 Hometown Heroes Award from the Greater Delray Beach Chamber of Commerce in December. Photo provided

 

By Christine Davis

The Delray Medical Cent

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8507541076?profile=RESIZE_710xA pantry in front of Advent Church in Boca Raton provides free dry and canned foods to people in need. Photo provided

 

By Janis Fontaine

Churches might have the legal right to discuss politics from the pulpit, but should they?

“Our particular tradit

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8507529652?profile=RESIZE_710xThis was one of six tableaus that depicted scenes from the Nativity story at St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church. Photo provided

By Janis Fontaine

St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church in Boynton Beach is known for its delightfully chaotic Spontaneous Christmas Pa

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