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Code enforcement issues at center of controversy

By John Pacenti

The Delray Beach City Commission is reeling as a leaked document, social media outrage, and defiant statements followed the revelation that a whistleblower complaint had been filed over

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In addition to a flag on the beach celebrating Delray Beach’s blue flag status, numerous banners adorn the light poles on both sides of Atlantic Avenue between A1A and the Intracoastal Waterway. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

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Along the Coast: Crosswalk Confusion

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A couple crosses A1A without using a crosswalk to get to Atlantic Dunes Park in Delray Beach. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

13541533083?profile=RESIZE_192XBy Rich Pollack

The close call came as

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By Rich Pollack

It has been a year since Highland Beach split from Delray Beach and started its own fire department, but a fight over who still owes the other money — and how much — is heating up again.

In late March, attorneys for Delray Beach sent

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Volunteer patrol member Kenny Moskowitz hands a Delray Beach police sticker to a child, one way he and his colleagues engage with the public. Hannah Spence/The Coastal Star

By Hannah Spence

Delray Beach police are looking for a few good men — and wo

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By John Pacenti

Emotions ran high at the April 8 Delray Beach City Commission meeting when a motion to strip $15,000 in funding from the Pride festival, which celebrates the LGBTQ community, was on the agenda.

Commissioner Juli Casale said she feared

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Mother’s Day offerings in area restaurants include buffet brunches complete with mimosas and bloody marys, and sumptuous dinners such as the lamb curry dish at Le Colonial. Photo provided

By Jan Norris

May is all about Mom, and dishes designed for h

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Finding Faith: Pope Francis remembered

Pope Francis, who died April 21, was remembered as a pope for the regular people.

The Most Reverend Gerald M. Barbarito, Bishop of the Diocese of Palm Beach County, called the pope “a man of tremendous hope, which he lived to the end, and which provi

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Florida Atlantic University celebrated “Match Day” with its Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine’s class of 2025. Match Day occurs nationally on the third Friday of March when the results of the National Resident Matching Program are announced. 

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Delray Beach firefighter David Wyatt, who was driving a city aerial ladder fire truck when it was struck by a Brightline passenger train downtown on Dec. 28, is being fired, the city said Thursday following an investigation. Wyatt had been on paid a

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Leneita Fix, executive director at The Reef Institute in West Palm Beach, with a miniature version of the Atlantic Ocean. The institute is advising Delray Beach on which coral to use to restore its reef. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star  

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Delray Beach: News briefs

Railroad gate upgrade could cost more than $1 million — Upgrading three Delray Beach railroad crossings in the wake of the Dec. 28 Brightline train collision with a city fire truck will cost up to $1,050,000, City Manager Terrence Moore informed comm

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13529697675?profile=RESIZE_710xThe Police Benevolent Association was banned from participating in Delray Beach parades for a year after its mobile billboard, shown above, changed its messaging in the St. Patrick’s Day parade from holiday-oriented to one critical of the city’s elec

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