By Mary Hladky
Ten years after housing prices began cratering in the Great Recession, taxable property values in Palm Beach County have zoomed past their previous record high set in 2007.
While the previous peak was $169.4 billion before t
delray beach (2609)
Two south county coastal cities continue to see rising numbers of drug overdoses along with increasing fatalities.
In Boynton Beach, police responded to 398 overdoses in 2016 resulting in 35 deaths.
As of May 22, Boynton Beach police responded
By Steve Plunkett
A new potential for heavy growth on Federal Highway at the Woolbright Road and Ocean Avenue intersections has the barrier island-based Florida Coalition for Preservation sounding the alarms.
Boynton Beach has changed its c
By Jane Smith
The long-awaited iPic deal closed on May 16.
The developer paid $3.6 million to the Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency for 1.6 acres between Southeast Fourth and Fifth avenues, just south of Atlantic Avenue.
When com
James Blumenfeld, co-owner of Meridian Art Experience in Delray Beach’s Pineapple Grove,
displays works mainly from local artists and offers services for collectors.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
James Blumenfeld and business partner Susan Romain
By Jane Smith
The city will still celebrate the Fourth of July while its beach promenade work continues.
“Pardon our dust,” said Stephanie Immelman, executive director of the Delray Beach Marketing Cooperative. “We will have a condensed eve
Randy Ely (left) and Nicholas Malinosky have joined Douglas Elliman to take advantage
of the brokerage’s international exposure. Their office is in Delray Beach.
Photo provided
By Christine Davis
Randy Ely and Nicholas Malinosky joined Douglas E
Community Greening project
transforms rocky field into orchard
Volunteers plant mango trees for Community Greening at Catherine Strong Park in Delray Beach.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Delray Beach Deputy Vice Mayor Shirley Johnson and Gra
By Janis Fontaine
You can find religion in the strangest places.
Like at lunch.
You’re quietly chowing down on a burger and fries and the guys at the next table are talking about religion. You don’t really mean to, but soon you’re joini
By Jane Smith
Sober homes will finally be regulated under a House bill that is on its way to the governor.
The bill, passed unanimously by state representatives and senators, allows the Department of Children and Families to write the rules regulatin
Delray brings new license plate
scanners to barrier island
Delray Beach officer Anthony Sala speaks with a driver pulled over when a license plate recognition camera
(shown below) alerted him to an expired tag.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Po
By Jane Smith
Nearly 10 years after Delray Beach was dubbed “the recovery capital of America” by The New York Times, that branding still irritates some elected officials.
“This leadership is not sitting idly by. We want to see that reputation
By Jane Smith
Fed up with sloppy contracts and having to beg for taxpayer dollars, the Delray Beach City Commission will soon consider taking over its Community Redevelopment Agency board.
The final straw was the b
By Jane Smith
After city commissioners insisted the two-way road be placed back into the Atlantic Crossing development, they were ready to settle the lawsuit with the project’s developer.
“I do not think we can get a much better project wi
Workers with MBR Construction use a small end-loader to remove
broken-up pieces of the sidewalk across A1A from Anchor Park.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach started working on its $3.1 million redo of the beach promenade
By Jane Smith
Boat-loving residents came to Delray Beach’s outreach meeting to hear when work would begin on raising the seawall in Veterans Park and on replacing two docks there for marine access to the Intracoastal Waterway.
The docks will be
Pete Dye was a hands-on supervisor during re-construction of the Gulf Stream Golf Club in 2013-14.
Pete and Alice with one of their dogs through the years, all named Sixty. The last Sixty died in December.
Photos provided by Ken May
The Dyes’ lifeti
Christina Cleveland, a certified financial planner in Boca Raton, also is busy with several charities
and her church. She lives in coastal Delray Beach. The boy in the photo on her desk is her son, Max.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
When Christina
Gunther Volvo plans to build a 31,050-square-foot showroom-service area and three-level parking garage
on Federal Highway. Place Au Soleil homeowners fear the project will fill their neighborhood with noise and light.
Rendering courtesy City of Delra
George and Mary Kientzy are ready for semi-retirement after decades in the jewelry business.
They plan to close the store at the end of June.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Christine Davis
After 35 years, George and Mary Kientzy’s Kientzy & Co.
