By Tim Pallesen
Construction for Atlantic Crossing starts this month after a lawsuit by neighbors who sought to alter its design was dismissed by a judge on Jan. 20.
“We’re ready to get demolition and construction underway,” said Edwards Compan
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Dan Rogers (left) and Curt Hunt use a table saw to rip a 4 X 4 down to the size
they need for repairs to the south side of the Sandoway House.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
Luck finally returned to the Sandoway House Nature Cen
Neighbors complain that this home is out of scale with the rest of the neighborhood.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Tim Pallesen
Coastal residents are pointing to one particular oceanfront home as the example of what should be prevented in fu
By Ron Hayes
DELRAY BEACH — One summer day in the late 1920s, a little boy named Arthur Jaffe asked a librarian at the Carnegie Library in Butler, Pa., to recommend a book.
“She gave me a children’s abridged edition of Robinson Crusoe, and I c
By Steven J. Smith
DELRAY BEACH — If you want an example of a life fully lived, look no further than the life of Suzanne “Barbara” Hayward Carpenter.
Born in New Orleans, La., on Nov. 16, 1922, Mrs. Carpenter and her family moved to New York wh
Catherine Jacobus is honorary chairwoman of the Circle of Hope gala.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Catherine Jacobus comes from a privileged background in New York City, but she learned early that being wealthy did not shield her from everything.
John and Sheldon Goldstein (in rainbow vests) participate in a group same-sex wedding
Jan. 6 in Delray Beach.
Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Marcie Hall and Chris Porter of Delray Beach, together more than 30 years, were married.
Financial
By Jane Smith
FEMA has opened the final round of public appeals and comments on proposed changes to its Palm Beach County flood maps.
The 90-day period, which started Jan. 2, allows South County coastal communties to challenge the flood des
Eleven Salon & Spa celebrated its first decade of doing business with an aviation-themed party benefiting Wheels from the Heart. The evening saw more than 550 guests and featured the awarding of a Toyota minivan to Navy Reserve veteran Michele Trinid
Pascale Troupin-Castania displays her gourmet product line at the Delray Beach Green Market.
Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
Pascale Troupin-Castania lives in a jam-filled world in Delray Beach.
From the bounty of her back
Members of the Grass River Garden Club recently helped the students at Paul’s Place
replant their vegetable garden. Paul’s Place is an after-school program at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
in Delray Beach that serves children from the neighborhood. Whe
The Ferris wheel provides a nice view of the crowd, church, school grounds and the
neighborhood surrounding St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church and School.
Photo provided
By Tim Pallesen
The big festival at St. Vincent Ferrer this month isn’t ju
A snorkeler explores the remains of the Lofthus, located in 15 to 20 feet of water
off Manalapan. The ship, which wrecked 117 years ago, is a state-designated underwater archaeological preserve.
Photo by Dan Volker/South Florida Dive Journal
By Will
At right, Igor Bobkov, tennis pro, works with Temur Ismailov,
currently ranked 522, Tuesday at the Pro World Tennis Center in Delray.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Steve Pike
For the uninitiated, tennis (except for doubles) is rarely viewed as
By Rich Pollack
Plans to install license plate recognition systems in several coastal communities along State Road A1A are moving forward, with local law enforcement officials exploring the possibility of having a shared database housed in Delray
Your articles are great (“Airport project can benefit wildlife as well as human life” and “Gumbo Limbo thawing out stressed turtles”), but to me they highlight the ridiculous waste of my grandchildren’s money as they are the ones that will either
Delray Beach has reached agreement with its police officers on a three-year contract that gives retroactive salary increases for the five years that wages were frozen.
The contract approved by city commissioners on Dec. 22 also reinstates meri
By Tim Pallesen
Plans for an iPic theater near Atlantic Avenue came to a temporary halt Dec. 15 after it appeared that the city of Delray Beach and its Community Redevelopment Agency had failed to communicate.
The CRA chose iPic Entertainme
INSET BELOW: Jeff Costello
By Jane Smith
The Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency won’t miss a beat when its executive director Diane Colonna leaves this month.
The agency’s assistant director, Jeff Costello, will take over the very
