By Amy Woods
Leon and Toby Cooperman have made a transformational gift of $2 million to the Ruth & Norman Rales Jewish Family Services that will launch a capital campaign for a new center.
The Toby and Leon Cooperman Therapy & Family Resource Center,
Research from FAU’s college of nursing showed battery-operated cats lifted moods of people in cognitive decline even though they were told the cats were not real. Photo provided by FAU
By Arden Moore
Numerous studies published in the past two decades
Joan Witter, who coined the name ’Ladies of the Garden’ for her crew, describes what needs to be done during one of their weekly meet-ups at the club grounds. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
This is the first in a series on four local garden clubs.
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By Christine Davis
The Palm Beach Health Network, made up of six hospitals including Delray Medical Center, supports opportunities for women to succeed in leadership roles. A McKinsey study on women in the workplace found that in 2021, 24% of C-suite
The swimming pool, tiki hut bar and cluster of small buildings are part of Crane’s character. Menin Development, the new owner, has no plans to change that. Photo provided
By Christine Davis
While the management will remain the same, the owners are n
(L-R) Laura Malone, EJ Kunmann with service dog Jackie, Keith Shampaner with service dog Goose, Don Werner with service dog Teddy, Mel Pollack, Jim Nau, Boca airport Executive Director Clara Bennett, Lisa Fendrich, Bob Tucker, Alan Feinberg with ser
Karen Chambers, DNP, APRN, an assistant professor in the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, assists a patient in the FAU/Northwest Community Health Alliance’s Community Health Center. Photo provided by Alex Dolce
Florida Atlantic University and N
“Hoping you’ll find comfort in the memories that are yours to cherish always, and strength in the companionship of those who share your loss,” wrote Coastal Star reporter Rich Pollack to me following my mother’s death in 2007.
The handwritten note wa
Customer desire for bigger units led developers to reduce the number of units at Alina Residences in Boca Raton. The first phase opened this summer. Photo provided
By Christine Davis
El-Ad National Properties has filed revised plans with the city of
By Amy Woods
Delray Beach’s Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse has announced a $40,000 challenge from a foundation that wants to remain anonymous.
Donations to AVDA’s Purple Pajama Party, a virtual fundraiser running through Dec. 1, will be matched dol
By Joyce Reingold
When the pandemic sent office workers home in March 2020, beds, couches and kitchen tables became makeshift workstations. Coronavirus safety supplanted ergonomic concerns. And as temporary turned to “we’re still at it,” necks, bac
Florida Atlantic University will hold its long-awaited celebration of life for legendary football coach Howard Schnellenberger on Sept. 10 at the FAU Stadium in Boca Raton.
Mr. Schnellenberger, whose accomplishments included coaching the University o
More than 35 years ago, Il Circolo, The Italian Cultural Society, donated $5,000 to Florida Atlantic University to kick-start an Italian program. Myriam Ruthenberg was hired to teach it. Since that time, Ruthenberg’s class evolved into a full-stud
By Joyce Reingold
The timing was not fortuitous. Just as Florida Atlantic University was poised to open its Marcus Institute of Integrated Health at FAU Medicine in Boca Raton last spring, the coronavirus began spreading through South Florida, trigg
Long before it housed the Historical Society and Museum, Boca’s old Town Hall included a fire station. Photo provided
By Christine Davis
The Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum has undergone a total of $3.9 million in redesign and renovation, with
By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton City Council members are clearly impressed by a cultural group’s ambitious proposal to build a performing arts complex on city-owned land east of the Spanish River Library.
“Very, very compelling,” Deputy Mayor Jeremy Rodge
FAU researchers make progress in helping couples dealing
with memory loss sharpen their communication skills
Some people in the FAU study took part in painting classes or other activities at the Louis and Anne Green Memory Center in Boca Raton. Tim S
By Christine Davis
Pooja Patel, M.D., is now part of Boca Raton Regional Hospital’s Marcus Neuroscience Institute and BocaCare physician network and will be director of the institute’s epilepsy monitoring unit.
She is a board-certified gene
Delray Medical Center honors hospital volunteers with Quilts of Valor for their military service. (l-r) Ron Price, Julio Mastrovito, Russell Sultenfuss, Mel Fishman and Charles Carroll. Photo provided
By Christine Davis
Bethesda Health, headquar
By Emily J. Minor
BOCA RATON — Dr. Samuel S. Stephenson III, who picked up his wife and two small children in 1968 to move to Florida and help lead a fairly new college called Florida Atlantic University, died June 21 in hospice care. He was 93.Bo
