Related story — Highland Beach: Town delays call on 911 changes
By Tim Pallesen
Delray Beach has asked Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue for a price quote to take over fire-rescue operations in the city.
The concept is
Related story — Highland Beach: Town delays call on 911 changes
By Tim Pallesen
Delray Beach has asked Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue for a price quote to take over fire-rescue operations in the city.
The concept is
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach town officials have pushed the hold button on plans to change the way 911 calls are handled — at least until Delray Beach decides whether or not to have Palm Beach County take over that city’s fire and rescue servic
By Tim Pallesen
Delray Beach commissioners approved a slightly lower property tax rate for this year.
The rate of $7.16 per $1,000 of assessed value for the city’s $98 million operating budget, is 3 cents below last year’s rate of $7.19. An
Saltwater Brewery founders Bo Eaton, Peter Agardy, brewmaster Bill Taylor, Chris Gove and Dustin Jeffers stand on the second floor of the barn-like, 1952-vintage building, formerly the site of the Rustic Rooster furniture store in Delray Beach. Tim S
St. Paul’s Day School in Delray Beach marks its 50th anniversary on Oct. 27.
During that half-century, it has had only two directors.
Photo contributed
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Today, they are engineers, lawyers and professionals.
Back in their youth, d
By Emily J. Minor
DELRAY BEACH — John C. Lake, 73, who moved to South Palm Beach in 1991 to be closer to the two daughters he so loved, died Sept. 3. He had been battling Parkinson’s disease for about 15 years.
Born May 18, 1940, in Orange, N.J., M
By Tim Pallesen
East Atlantic Avenue traffic congestion remains a concern as the proposed Atlantic Crossing development goes before Delray Beach officials for site plan and design approval.
In response to residents’ concerns, the developer drew a
By Dan Moffett
Delray Beach commissioners’ campaign to tighten up their business dealings has grown so heated that even a contract for beach chairs can raise emotional warnings about extortion, loss of integrity and “whoring the city.”
The comm
By Tim Pallesen
Nights will be quieter in east Delray than in the downtown under the city’s new noise ordinance approved by commissioners on Aug. 20.
The new law allows outdoor music until midnight on weeknights and until 1 a.m. on weekends
By Tim Pallesen
Get out the green confetti but not the green beer — the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade is a go for next year without alcohol.
Delray Beach commissioners have approved the March 15 event with a $31,273 cost for the promoter.
Alessandra Medri, the marine animal stranding coordinator for Palm Beach County’s Environmental Resources Management Department, checks on a pygmy sperm whale found near shore in Delray Beach on Aug. 28. Passersby and Delray Beach lifeguards stayed
Members of the Three Buoys Fishing Team, out of Palm Beach, hold the head of a 36-pound wahoo that they caught during the Delray Beach Jaycees’ 2013 Mark Garretson Memorial Fishing Tournament. The head was all that was left after a hungry shark ate
Excentricities Manager Diana Myers, inside the recently expanded showroom
on Northeast Fifth Avenue in Delray Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
Excentricities recently expanded its Delray Beach showroom by more than 25 percent,
Cary and Rick Caster stand by a planting of lemongrass outside of 21 Drops. The company sells essential-oil blends online and in select retailers. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
When Cary Caster was raising her three children, she used coconut oi
By Dan Moffett
A night at the movies is getting to be a tough ticket in Delray Beach as the local movie houses go through some major changes.
Last spring, the operators of the Plaza at Delray mall on the corner of Federal Highway and Linton
By Dan Moffett
Outgunned and outspent in the courts, six Delray Beach residents dropped their lawsuit against the developer of the Atlantic Crossing project, saying the fight had become too much.
“This was a monetary Goliath,” said Benita G
By Tim Pallesen
Delray Beach taxpayers are facing a $93 million debt to pay the pension benefits of the city’s police officers and firefighters.
The debt has grown 276 percent since it was $33.6 million in 2007, forcing city commissioners t
By Tim Pallesen and Steve Plunkett
Don’t fret, Delray Beach. You are going to get your very own Trader Joe’s after all.
City officials began to worry after the California-based specialty grocer announced early last month that it will ope
Local patrons, Boston natives and members of the Boca Raton Running Club (pictured above)
joined forces to raise money for The One Fund, a nonprofit organization established to aid
the victims and families affected by the Boston Marathon bombings. T
To strengthen cultural and culinary bonds, Delray Beach Mayor Cary Glickstein joined Miyazo, Japan Mayor Shoji Inoue
and his Sister Cities delegation for a July lunch at Caffe Luna Rosa in Delray Beach.
Joining them were Karen Granger, president and