MANALAPAN — Lisa Petersen, who served 18 years as Manalapan’s town clerk, died surrounded by family on July 21 after suffering an injury. She was 70.
Town Manager Eric Marmer said Mrs. Petersen was “a familiar, trusted presence to generations of resi
BRINY BREEZES — Joanne Garrott Long, a bridge player who shared her enthusiasm with friends old and new, died June 29. She was 96.
Born on Aug. 4, 1929, in Peoria, Illinois, to Ashton and Doris Johnson Garrott, she married Donald David Long on July 8
DELRAY BEACH — Willard George Kramer Jr., cherished by family and friends for a lifetime of kindness and generosity, died April 30. He was 96.
Mr. Kramer was a former member of Delray Dunes. He was also a member of the Delray Beach Club and The Littl
By Sephora Charles
OCEAN RIDGE — Town Commissioner Dave Hutchins, a longtime commercial airline pilot who devoted the past decade of his retirement to serving his adopted town, died on May 18. He was 78.
Mr. Hutchins was first appointed as an altern
DELRAY BEACH — Sonya Isabelle Marcellino Costin of Delray Beach and Lake Burton, Georgia, died March 19. She was 91.
Sonya graduated from Seacrest High School in Delray Beach in 1952 and married her high school sweetheart, Bob Costin. Together, they
By Mary Hladky
A New Jersey man has been charged with DUI manslaughter in the Dec. 15 death of a bicyclist who was struck by the man’s Chevy Equinox on a stretch of State Road A1A next to Red Reef Park.
Felipe Soares De Moraes, 41, of suburban Boca R
Jamie Daniels with his mother, Lisa Daniels-Goldman. She and Jamie’s father, Ken Daniels, created the Jamie Daniels Foundation to help young adults struggling with substance abuse. Jamie, 23, died in a Boynton Beach sober home. Photo provided by Ja
Jamie Daniels with his mother, Lisa Daniels-Goldman. She and Jamie’s father, Ken Daniels, created the Jamie Daniels Foundation to help young adults struggling with substance abuse. Jamie, 23, died in a Boynton Beach sober home. Photo provided by Jami
By Mary Hladky
Two days after Mayor Scott Singer proclaimed March as “bicycle month” in the city, a crash claimed a bicyclist’s life and highlighted residents’ concerns about pedestrian and bicyclist safety on East Palmetto Park Road.
Bicyclist Mark R
By Rich Pollack
It has been more than four years since David Del Rio was arrested on charges of defrauding an 85-year-old Highland Beach widow and her late husband, and now it appears the case likely will go before a jury in March.
At a trial set fo
By Joe Capozzi
Ocean Ridge police are investigating the death of a Lantana teenager whose body was found Aug. 12 in a vacant lot just east of the Ocean Avenue bridge leading to Boynton Beach.
The body of Cassidy Cra
By Joe Capozzi
Ocean Ridge police are investigating the death of a young woman whose body was found Aug. 12 in a vacant lot just east of the Ocean Avenue bridge leading to Boynton Beach.
Although police have identified the body, they are not rele
A Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office helicopter searches at dawn for a plane that disappeared shortly after 8 p.m. the previous evening off the Boynton Inlet. Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Teams from the U.S. Coast Guard a
A few of the decorations at Death or Glory are not for the faint of heart. Bloody Mary mix served from an IV is intended to chill your soul. Photo provided
By Jan Norris
They’re getting spirited in more ways than one at Death or Glory in Delray Bea
By Mary Hladky
The city has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed against it after Francis Roselin drowned during Boca Bash last year.
Before being reported missing, Roselin, 32, of West Palm Beach, was last seen swimming in Lake Boca on April 29,
The late Ken Simmons' love of animals made it easy for him to put pets at ease. Coastal Star 2013 file photo
By Arden Moore
I confess. I do have health insurance, but do not have a personal physician. I know, I know. I need to get a physical exam onc
By Dan Moffett
A 91-year-old Palm Beach woman drove her Lexus off State Road A1A in South Palm Beach and struck two pedestrians, police say, killing Rinaldo Morelli and sending his wife, Lena, to the hospital on Jan. 24.
Police say Janet J. Reynolds,
By Rich Pollack
Residents at the normally peaceful Penthouse Highlands community in Highland Beach have been on edge for more than a month after town police found the body of Elizabeth Cabral, 85, in her fifth-floor apartment.
While the Palm Beach Co
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach appears to be shedding its image as a city full of rogue sober homes.
The city had “an explosion of flophouses” a few years ago, Chief Assistant State Attorney Al Johnson said at his office’s Sober Homes Task Force meeting
County has most deaths
• Palm Beach County, nearly 45 miles long, ranks highest in the state for pedestrian deaths between railroad crossings. Of the 33 people killed statewide in 2015, seven died in Palm Beach County, ranking it first for what’s cal
