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
In keeping with a town tradition, Carolyn Cassidy receives an unofficial, private swearing in on March 23 with Town Clerk Kelly Avery. Photo provided
By Joe Capozzi
Newcomer Carolyn Cassidy and incumbent Martin Wiescholek won seats on the Ocean Rid
Commissioners (l-r) Kristin Rosen, Simone Bonutti and John Deese and Mayor Stewart Satter take their oaths of office. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Larry Barszewski
Stewart Satter was sworn in as Manalapan’s new mayor March 28, succeeding Keith
By John Pacenti
Delray Beach voters handed Mayor Shelly Petrolia a major defeat on March 14 — and she wasn’t even on the ballot.
They rejected the City Commission candidates Petrolia supported in favor of two who promised to return Delray Beach to an
By Rich Pollack
There will be two new faces on the five-member Town Commission following the March 14 vote, which saw about 22% of Highland Beach’s 3,900 registered voters casting ballots.
Newcomer Judith Goldberg defeated challengers Maggie Chappele
Council member Mark Zeitler speaks from the dais after being sworn into office March 27 with Chris Castle (far left), who listens with Mayor Karen Lythgoe and council member Kem Mason. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Mary Thurwachter
Not long after t
