By Steve Plunkett
covid-19 (115)
A National Guardsman provides instructions as cars pull into the drive-thru testing site at the South County Civic Center on April 7. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Steve Plunkett
A total of 250 patients are scheduled to be tested for COVID-19 toda
By Steve Plunkett
Telephone reservations for drive-thru COVID-19 testing at the South County Civic Center will begin at 10 a.m. April 6 with the earliest appointment available at 8 a.m. the following day.
The reservation phone number is 561-804-0250.
Delray Beach and Boynton Beach both have joined Boca Raton in the growing club of municipalities with 100 or more reported cases of coronavirus.
Boynton had 117 cases by afternoon April 2 and Delray had 100. Boca posted 135 cases.
The three cities' co
A testing site for coronavirus will open April 7 at the South County Civic Center west of Delray Beach.
"More info to follow," County Commissioner Robert Weinroth said April 2 in a COVID-19 email announcing the opening.
The South County center is at
Briny Breezes Town Manager Bill Thrasher runs the council meeting last month with appropriate social distancing and phone technology allowing aldermen to attend from home. Photos by Jerry Lower and Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
In Sou
On March 27, a Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy explains to South Palm Beach resident Kumar Kalola that public beaches and other gathering venues are closed because of the emergency situation.
Even health aides allowed to enter the Carlisle are screened for signs of illness such as a fever by staff members wearing masks and gloves. ‘We don’t want anything to happen to our residents,’ Carlisle executive director Richard Tournesy says. Photo
Farmer’s Table is selling vacuum-packed meals that can be refrigerated for up to three weeks. Photo provided
By Jan Norris
By mid-March, Florida’s governor had ordered all restaurants to shut their dining rooms, giving them the options to go to take
Local organizations hopeful even as future looks bleak
By Jan Engoren
ArtsPaper Contributing Writer
When the Cannes Film Festival is canceled and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is projected to lose $100 million after closing down be
More than 60 people attended and other Briny residents watched the service on BBC-8, the community cable service. By the following Sunday, Briny had closed the services to the public until further notice. They still will have a pastor and choir, and
Effective March 25, Palm Beach County closed all public and private golf courses, parks and natural areas within its borders, including those inside municipalities, to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The action followed a March 22 order closing
Second-grade teachers Marie Boslow and Lizzie Paskal work in one the courtyards at Gulf Stream School on March 16, to organize take-home packets for their students to use while the school is closed. All Palm Beach County schools are closed in respons
By Mary Hladky
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Boca Raton jumped to 103 on March 31, cementing the fact that the county’s southernmost city is so far seeing a higher rate of infection than other cities.
But Boca Raton’s coronavirus status
Coronavirus: summary of persons being monitored, persons under investigation, and cases
Data verified as of Jun 4, 2020 at 10 AM
Data in this report are provisional and subject to change.
Source: www.floridadisaster.org
Boca Raton: 660
Boynton Beach