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Rebecca Shelton, who won the Boynton Beach mayoral race with 56% of the vote, was sworn in at the March 18 City Commission meeting. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Tao Woolfe
Photos of rescued chihuahuas are sprinkled among the election announcemen
Evalyn David, first elected to the Town Commission in 2019, has left the job because of term limits but has been appointed to the town’s Planning Board. Rich Pollack/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Evalyn David hadn’t planned on becoming a Highland
By Rich Pollack
In a hotly contested race for Florida House District 91, which encompasses all of Highland Beach and Boca Raton as well as unincorporated areas west of the city, incumbent Peggy Gossett-Seidman was able to hold on to her seat, deraili
By Rich Pollack
Community leader Jason Chudnofsky will be a new Highland Beach town commissioner in March after no one else filed to run for the town’s one open seat by the Nov. 26 deadline.
Chudnofsky, 81, will fill the commission seat that is curre
Three veteran commissioners of the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District will spend four more years in office after no one filed last month to run against them.
Staying on the dais will be Steve Engel, first elected to the board in 2012, and Cra
By Mary Hladky
Andy Thomson easily reclaimed a Boca Raton City Council seat on election night, capturing 62.5% of the vote to defeat opponent Brian Stenberg.
Thomson, senior counsel at the Baritz & Colman law firm in Boca Raton and an adjunct profess
Unofficial results
Source: Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Office
Unofficial results
Source: Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Office
By Mary Hladky
A former Boca Raton City Council member and a former unsuccessful council candidate will face off in the March 19 city election to fill the seat now held by term-limited Deputy Mayor Monica Mayotte.
Vying for Seat D are Andy Thomson, w
By Mary Hladky
Most Boca Raton City Council candidates facing off in a Feb. 8 candidate forum ahead of the March 19 municipal election advanced similar views on many issues, but the city’s tax rate sparked disagreement.
Brian Stenberg, who is running
By Rich Pollack
The buzz is gone.
Normally the last weeks before referendum issues are decided are filled with presentations from town leaders, mail flyers explaining the rationale behind the ballot questions, and postcards being handed out to peopl
Two seats are up for election on March 19. The winners will serve three-year terms. The seats are elected by voters citywide.
Related: Seat C
Two seats are up for election on March 19. The winners will serve three-year terms. The seats are elected by voters citywide.
Related: Seat D
By Rich Pollack
For more than a decade, Highland Beach town leaders have been searching for a way to increase the cap that requires voter approval to spend more than $350,000 on any one project — a provision incorporated in the town charter in 1991.
By Mary Hladky
Two well-known candidates are vying to replace term-limited Deputy Mayor Monica Mayotte in the March 19 Boca Raton election.
Andy Thomson is making a new bid to serve on the City Council after he resigned last year to pursue his candid
By Rich Pollack
When Highland Beach voters go to the polls in March, they’ll find three referendum questions on the ballot, two of which — if approved — could result in changes to the town charter.
The third referendum item on the ballot would give t
By Mary Hladky
The city’s 2024 election season already has begun.
Three candidates are seeking to replace Deputy Mayor Monica Mayotte, who is term-limited from running again in next year’s municipal election.
Andy Thomson, who resigned from the City
By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton is ushering in a new era as two new City Council members take their seats on the dais.Marc Wigder replaces Andrea O’Rourke, a fixture in city affairs who helmed the Golden Triangle Neighborhood Association and the Federation
By Mary Hladky
In a sharp rebuke to Mayor Scott Singer, voters soundly defeated a measure that would have increased City Council terms of office from three years to four.
With only 9.8% of registered voters casting ballots in the March 14 city electio
