By Steve Plunkett
The year 2023 was not a good one for the nonprofit group originally founded to support the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton.
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By Steve Plunkett
The city will hire a consultant to determine whether a pickleball center similar to Delray Beach’s Tennis Center should go on the recently donated Boca Golf and Tennis Country Club or the former Ocean Breeze golf course.
City Manager
Ben Hicks uses his photos to raise awareness of sea turtles.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
A photo by Hicks showing a green sea turtle coming to the surface to breathe.
By Rich Pollack
Ben Hicks knows when sea turtles don’t mind him swimming besid
The loggerhead turtle was emaciated,
had been struck by a propeller
and had a 4-inch hook in her esophagus.
Crowds cheer as Phoenix the loggerhead turtle returns to the ocean on June 12.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
This transmitter placed by the te
By Steve Plunkett
In a word, visitors to Gumbo Limbo Nature Center want more.
As in, “more from the center as well as at the center,” Judy Gire said while presenting a five-year strategic plan for Gumbo Limbo to the Greater Boca Raton Beach
