Hailey Clark, a marine biology student at Florida Atlantic University and a volunteer for the Coastal Stewards, releases Sparrow, a green sea turtle, into the ocean on July 10. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Steve Plunkett
The gift shop at Boca Rat
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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
Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District officials are making a renewed effort to be exempted from making annual payments to city’s Community Redevelopment Agency.
The city turned down the district’s previous request in 2020. Since t
By Mary Hladky
Erik Silver, the Boca Raton Resort and Club’s director of tennis, and a business partner are proposing a 10-acre recreation center on the former Ocean Breeze golf course property.
The privately funded plan calls for 10 indoor clay tenni
By Steve Plunkett
Storm clouds are gathering again between the Greater Boca Raton Beach & Park District and the city of Boca Raton.
The cause of the renewed friction is the continuing failure of the two governments to hammer out a master in
Families enjoy the Children’s Science Playground at Sugar Sand Park in Boca Raton on May 26.
The playground had more than 54,000 visitors in April.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Steve Plunkett
The construction crew refurbishing the Children
By Steve Plunkett
The city will have a “public outreach meeting” April 3 to discuss its waterfront parks and gather ideas from Boca Raton residents.
The session, hosted by Fort Lauderdale-based consultant EDSA Inc., is designed to give the publ
Frank Gonzales, top, and Fernando Aciento, bottom, paint the original wooden-brick head
inside the rebuilt playground of Boca Raton’s Sugar Sand Park.
The playground is expected to be completed this month.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Visitors to se
By Steve Plunkett
The city’s plans to renovate Rutherford and Lake Wyman parks — revised to appease their Golden Harbour neighbors — have new opponents: the two new commissioners of the Greater Boca Raton Beach & Park District.
Commissioners C
By Steve Plunkett
The sale of the Ocean Breeze golf course to the public and the addition of more sports fields at De Hoernle Park have official blessings from the Greater Boca Raton Beach & Park District and the City Council.
Meeting together
By Steve Plunkett
The city’s dredge contractor is back to work on a beach renourishment project between the Boca Raton Inlet and Red Reef Park.
Weeks Marine Inc. left Boca Raton in April after weather delays let it finish only about 20 per
By Steve Plunkett
Renovation of the science playground at Sugar Sand Park hit a last-minute delay in December when workers found three multilevel wood posts showing signs of rot below the surface.
“Unfortunately that is going to add another tim
Under the branches of a trio of Gumbo Limbo trees, a family takes advantage of the recently reopened boardwalk.
The project cost $630,810, paid for by the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District. The boardwalk
closed in February 2015 when engineer
By Steve Plunkett
After 4½ years, commissioners of the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District decided to drop the “interim” part of interim Executive Director Arthur Koski’s title.
“I think you all will agree with me that Mr. Koski has done
By Steve Plunkett
The Greater Boca Raton Beach & Park District’s longtime attorney has given up the third of three jobs there that paid him a total of $330,000 a year.
Arthur Koski, who is also yielding his role as the district’s executive dire
By Steve Plunkett
The election over, commissioners of the Greater Boca Raton Beach & Park District began welcoming the two new commissioners-elect and saying farewell to the defeated incumbents.
“I’m sorry to go. It was a great 12 years,
By Steve Plunkett
The longtime attorney for the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District will soon shed his role as the district’s contract administrator. “Possibly around the first of November, I will be able to come to you with a recommenda
By Steve Plunkett
There’s a definite thaw in the cold war between the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District and city officials.
“There’s more of a mood of cooperation,” Steve Engel, the district’s vice chairman, said Sept. 23 after he and
By Steve Plunkett
The races for the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District have new cash leaders.
After the Aug. 30 primary, Seat 3 incumbent Earl Starkoff was sitting on a $2,155 war chest, while Seat 1 incumbent Dennis Frisch had $1,
By Steve Plunkett
The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District plans to keep taxes at the same amount it collected last year despite requests from city parks officials for nearly $4 million extra.
“We did not exact out one dollar from any of
