By Jane Smith
Drama continues to swirl around the iPic movie theater as it makes its way through the Delray Beach approval process.
The proposed luxury movie theater just south of the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Federal Highway will ha
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By Jane Smith
Delray Beach is starting an ambitious review of its comprehensive plan, Planning and Zoning Director Tim Stillings told commissioners at their second December meeting. The revision will take nearly two years to complete, he said.
The Delray Beach portion of the East Coast Greenway (green line)
next goes to the Florida Department of Transportation for approval.
Map provided
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach will join cities from Maine to Key West to create an “Urban Appalac
By Jane Smith
The city strengthened the future of its tree canopy in December by toughening an ordinance protecting shade trees.
The first change was renaming the ordinance, last revised in 2008 and formerly called the Tree Ordinance. It
By Emily J. Minor
DELRAY BEACH — Virginia Wesley Courtenay, a prominent interior designer who, in her 40 years in town, redecorated everything from the Florida governor’s mansion to a neighbor’s tiny kitchen, died Nov. 29 at her home under hospice
Debbie Brookes stands next to a shell-covered mermaid in her Beachcomber Art gallery in Delray Beach.
INSET BELOW: A shell-covered swordfish.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By April W. Klimley
Anyone strolling into the Beachcomber Art galler
Parents, students and city officials attended the celebratory welcoming of the learning facility’s new campus.
During the event, families planted sunflower seeds, made clay ‘peace seeds’ and contributed to community artwork.
The day ended in the natu
Naoma Donnelley Haggin Boys & Girls Club celebrated its 13th-annual fundraising event,
which generated about $85,000 to support programming for more than 400 local children.
ABOVE: (l-r)Co-Chairwomen Kari Shipley and Susan Mullin, with committee memb
Simple practice
relaxes body, eases mind
Boynton Beach resident Mitch Marx assumes the Anjali mudra position, or prayer position,
prior to a yoga nidra session at Simply Yoga in Delray Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Lona O’Connor
Candy Evans waters her plot at Cason Community Garden. She and a friend got the garden started
in 2008 with 20 gardeners and 2,500 square feet; now there are 40 participants
and 5,000 square feet of thriving vegetable gardens.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal
A porkfish swims through elkhorn coral, a threatened species, on a reef off Pompano Beach.
South Florida coral reefs face threats from pollution, anchor damage, high water temperatures
and other factors. The public is invited to comment on proposals
Gulf Stream School students celebrate after winning their fourth consecutive division title
against rival St. Vincent Ferrer, which was previously undefeated. Gulf Stream School goalie Tyler Zankl (center)
runs with teammates (l-r) Landon Brady, Char
The fate of what has been dubbed the Arts Warehouse, a 15,000-square-foot building in Artists Alley purchased by Delray Beach’s Community Redevelopment Agency in 2010, remains as uncertain as that of the surrounding area.
Little has been done to
Brenda Gordon works on a commissioned painting at Artists Alley in Delray Beach. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Related story: Delray seeks grants, partner for plan to revive arts district
By Rich Pollack
The artists who remain in Artists Alley are
One proposal aims to widen sidewalks and preserve ocean vistas along A1A. Rendering provided by Bob Currie
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach residents will have to wait at least a year to see promised improvements along the 1.25-mile promenade along the mu
By Jane Smith
The Atlantic Crossing developers amended their lawsuit against Delray Beach to focus more on the current commission members and their actions, according to the updated complaint filed Nov. 20 in federal court for the Southern District of
By Jane Smith
The Holiday Boat Parade will travel down the Intracoastal Waterway on Dec. 11 through Boynton Beach and Delray Beach for the 44th year, but the Delray Beach part almost didn’t happen.
The Delray Beach city manager, who just started in Jan
By Jane Smith
Downtown Delray Beach restaurants that want to have sidewalk cafes on public property now have amended rules to follow.
City commissioners decided Nov. 10 that Atlantic Avenue restaurants east of the Intracoastal Waterway with a 6-foot pe
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach planning staff is reviewing the latest changes submitted by the proposed iPic movie theater to ensure the revisions comply with city rules and a commission directive to reduce the project’s size.
The question remains whether
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
