The Delray Beach Bike Club hosted a one-hour Human Powered Delray Bicycle Safety Awareness Ride
in October. The cyclists, complete with police escort, rode east across the George Bush Boulevard Bridge
in an effort to draw attention to the need to rep
By Tim Pallesen
The city has ordered a halt to new downtown development applications as city commissioners try to agree on new height and density limits.
Commissioners are split over whether to limit new buildings to four floors and 30 resi
The corner of Atlantic Avenue and southbound Federal Highway.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Tim Pallesen
Federal Highway will be a traffic bottleneck in downtown Delray Beach this winter as a $12.5 million construction project continues.
A group of “Pirate Princesses,” who attend Morikami Park Elementary School in Delray Beach,
pose for a photo with the owners and staff of Naked Hair Salon & More
during Trick-or-Treat Along the Avenue, which took place Oct. 25.
Tim Stepien/The Coasta
By Tim Pallesen
City commissioners have narrowed their search for a new city manager to five candidates, with a final selection possible as early as Nov. 7.
The five finalists include interim City Manager Terry Stewart, whom a majority of comm
Community Redevelopment Agency
Executive director’s salary: $136,200
Assistant director’s salary: $112,500
Employees: 10 full-time, two part-time employees work on the GreenMarket; two open part-time positions
Board: Seven-member board from the commu
Comparisons
Delray Beach: Marketing agencies | Boynton Beach: Community Redevelopment Agency | Boca Raton: Community Redevelopment Agency
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach has an alphabet soup of marketing agencies, three city commissioners say. They w
April Markee (left, in pink) leads an hourlong fitness program along A1A in Delray Beach. The program provides
new moms an opportunity to meet other local moms and their babies while getting fit.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Linda Haase
Squat
William and Adlyn Sherman celebrated their 70th wedding anniversay. Now 92, the couple met when they were 16 at New Hartford High School in Utica, N.Y. They married in San Francisco in 1944 while William was serving as a Naval officer in World War I
Ted Juracsik, founder of Tibor Reel Corp., with daughter Marianne Papa,
who oversees the fly fishing reel manufacturing business on Congress Avenue in Delray Beach.
Juracsik lives in Boca Raton and spends much of his time fishing from a second home i
Kids join in the annual tug-of-war at the Delray Beach Surf Festival. Photo provided
By Shelley Gilken
Even if the waves aren’t big, it’s still a swell time at the Delray Beach Surf Festival.
“Our motto of the whole surf festival is the win
BCBGMaxazria, a luxury national-brand women's clothing boutique, plans to open its doors in a storefront in the 411 E. Atlantic Avenue building, Delray Beach, by the end of November, if not sooner, says the soon-to-be store manager Rena Vatch, who is
By Tim Pallesen
City Hall has undergone a transformation in the 18 months since Mayor Cary Glickstein and Commissioner Shelly Petrolia were elected.
New top administrators are in place.The addition of Jordana Jarjura to the commission last M
Rendering of potential look provided by Bob Currie
By Tim Pallesen
A “world-class” appearance has been ordered for the city’s municipal beach — possibly with an open vista to the ocean at Atlantic Avenue.
City commissioners on Sept. 16 direct
By Tim Pallesen
The downtown’s third new hotel is described by its developer as a “funky-looking establishment that fits funky Delray.”
Plans to build the 120-room hotel on southbound Federal Highway two blocks south of Atlantic Avenue w
By Tim Pallesen
City commissioners urged more generosity for police officers as they approved a $103 million city budget that will increase taxes for most property owners.
The new tax rate of $7.46 for every $1,000 in taxable value is slig
Dog lovers risk fines by ignoring city ordinances on this August morning.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
INSET BELOW: A digital sign on A1A proclaims ‘zero tolerance’ for offenders.
Mary Kate Leming/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Delray Beach re
A postcard advertises one of the Boston’s site’s early incarnations as the Hotel Del-Sol.
Photo provided by Delray Beach Historical Society
Boston’s, with the Upper Deck above.
Photo provided
Where else would hockey sticks decorate the dance floor, e
Melissa DiMisa and Connie Muir opened Once Upon a Time in May in the Pineapple Grove
area of downtown Delray Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Scott Simmons
Once upon a time, there were two east Boca Raton moms who had kids to clothe.
The
Casey Cleveland, lead pastor of the Avenue Church, cuts the ribbon during the grand
opening for City House in Delray Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
INSET BELOW: David Franklin
By Tim Pallesen
The challenge to save local children with no fath
