By Steve Plunkett
Town commissioners promised their Place Au Soleil constituents they would throw their weight behind an effort to block Gunther Volvo from building a three-story garage next to them in neighboring Delray Beach.
“We are extr
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By Jane Smith
Max Lohman continues to impress the Delray Beach city commissioners with his legal knowledge, leadership skills and willingness to answer their questions. At the Feb. 21 City Commission meeting, he gave the update he promised when h
Additional parking will ease a space crunch.
Rendering by Currie Sowards Aguila Architects
By Jane Smith
Presbyterian parishioners will soon have a more comfortable church-going experience on the barrier island.
The First Presbyterian Chu
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach, which had three lawyers on its five-member City Commission, will lose that majority with the March 14 election.
No lawyers are running for two open seats.
Vice Mayor Jordana Jarjura, general counsel at Gulf Build
The city of Delray Beach’s municipal election will take place March 14, as six candidates will compete for two seats on the City Commission. The winners will serve three-year terms. Despite many phone calls and emails, seat 2 candidate Richard A
Dorinda Burroughs and her therapy dog, Ginny, work with children
in the after-school program at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Delray Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Dorinda Burroughs dedicated much of her career to improving children’s live
By Jane Smith
The iPic development team is asking Delray Beach’s Community Redevelopment Agency for more money, even though it has not closed on its contract to buy the 1.6 acres for $3.6 million from the agency.
The seventh amended contract h
A light rain did not spoil a family event at the club. Holly Wamser and daughter Libby talk with Taylor Morris.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal StarGary Tapella and Robin Beamish share a laugh.
By Brian Biggane
The combination of changing demog
Tracy Gunn’s soap business in Delray Beach has projected annual sales of more than $12 million.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Before she brought her burgeoning handcrafted soaps, bath bombs and scrubs business to South Florida, Tra
Peek inside 10 of Delray Beach’s
most beautiful coastal homes
during the annual home tour.
A nook in the upstairs guest suite at Steve and Lori Leveen’s house combines tongue-and-groove ceiling,
open beams and a nautical feel to complement its Intrac
By Steve Plunkett
A proposed redevelopment plan by Gunther Volvo that includes a three-story parking garage at the back of the property has neighboring Place au Soleil up in arms.
“We are very concerned about the pending Gunther Volvo developm
The view of the proposed Atlantic Crossing looking southeast from the corner
of Northeast First Street and Northeast Sixth Avenue shows residential and related amenities.
Rendering provided
By Jane Smith
The long-delayed Atlantic Crossing develo
By Jane Smith
The Delray Beach City Commission did not violate its charter by declining to hold a special election to fill a vacant commission seat, a circuit judge ruled from the bench in January.
At the hearing, City Attorney Max Lohman argue
By Jane Smith
She is part of the glue that holds Delray Beach together.
After nearly 13 years as the city clerk, Chevelle Nubin is leaving to take a similar position with the village of Wellington.
Nubin will make more money. The Welling
By Jane Smith
A corporate executive search firm will be used to recruit Delray Beach’s next city manager.
“I’m not looking for someone on the learning curve or on their last stop,” Mayor Cary Glickstein said. “But someone with demonstrated meas
By Jane Smith
The days are numbered for people taking shortcuts across the FEC train tracks in downtown Delray Beach. The city plans to install pedestrian barriers by the end of the summer.
In mid-January, the City Commission approved a pedestr
Acklen Dunning of Delray Beach displays jewelry from her new line of collar necklaces.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Eight years ago, when Acklen Dunning fell in love with a beautiful gemstone necklace that she saw in a fashion magazine, she had a
Marcela Carneiro Millett, of Palm Beach County Human Services, speaks with a homeless man
at The Caring Kitchen in Delray Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
One woman at The Caring Kitchen said she was to blame for her homelessn
By Jane Smith
The three largest South County cities continue on separate paths to address problematic sober homes in their residential neighborhoods.
On Jan. 17, Boynton Beach city commissioners approved a moratorium on all group home appli
Dozens of residents wore yellow in support of Yvonne Odom’s selection for interim commissioner
at the contentious Dec. 13 Delray Beach commission meeting.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
The Delray Beach City Commission remains deadl
