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By Steve Plunkett
Candidates for the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District took off the gloves Aug. 2 in their first public forum.
“How can we expand our green space? … We need to focus
Beach and park commissioners serve four-year terms beginning Jan. 1 and are paid $80 for each meeting they attend. There are usually two meetings each month. The election will be Aug. 30.
John F. Costello Age: 47
Occupation: accountant
Education:
Craig F. Ehrnst Age: 52
Occupation: corporate treasurer, NCCI in Boca Raton
Education: Master’s in business administration, University of Michigan
Marital Status: Married, two sons, one daughter
Political/Community Service Experience: Board of directors,
By Steve Plunkett
Two commissioners of the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District each drew two challengers for the Aug. 30 election.
Incumbent Dennis Frisch, a podiatrist, will face one-time City Council candidate Craig Ehrnst and medic
By Steve Plunkett
Relations between the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District and the city withered in June like an unwatered lawn in the hot Florida sun.
• District Chairman Robert Rollins listed a year’s worth of failed efforts to get th
By Steve Plunkett
The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District’s interim executive director will stay on the job an additional three months.
Arthur Koski, who is also the district’s longtime attorney, said in May he would step aside as interi
By Steve Plunkett
Talk of the city annexing five subdivisions north of Clint Moore Road has the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District crying foul.
District commissioners were already chafed by the 2013 annexation of the Royal Palm polo gro
By Steve Plunkett
The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District is sending a counterproposal filled with additions and deletions to the City Council, which wants “sole discretion” to make changes at parks.
The district and the council now must
By Steve Plunkett
Arthur Koski, longtime attorney for the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District, will relinquish his additional role as interim executive director of the agency Oct. 1.
Koski, who has been under attack from city officials s
By Steve Plunkett
Arthur Koski’s job at the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District seems secure if district commissioners, his bosses, have any say.
Or perhaps, because they have very little to say.
Only one has responded to City Cou
By Steve Plunkett
The much-anticipated list of vacant, undeveloped properties on Boca Raton’s beachfront is a short one.
“There’s essentially three,” said Briann Harms, assistant executive director of the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park D
By Steve Plunkett
A week before a Dec. 7 joint meeting with City Council, commissioners of the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District abruptly pulled two items from the agenda.
Off the table will be any talk of interlocal agreements to repl
By Steve Plunkett
After nearly four years, it’s time to talk about the future of Ocean Strand again.
“Sometime this fiscal year we need to have that discussion,” Commissioner Robert Rollins told fellow commissioners at the Greater Boca Raton Be
The Brooklyn Children’s Museum is taking fundraising to a new level — asking fellow museums for donations.
It recently asked the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District, which operates the Children’s Science Explorium at Sugar Sand Park, to
By Steve Plunkett
The pipes that bring saltwater from the ocean to Gumbo Limbo Nature Center’s fish viewing tanks need $2 million of repairs — and fast.
“Those poor fish — you just want to breathe for them. You want to give CPR because they’re
Paul Homer, of Boca Raton, leads a nature walk during Sea Turtle Day at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center
on Feb. 28. The event featured a critter corner, craft activities, aquarium feedings, nature walks and a food truck area.
Photos by Madeline Gray/The
By Steve Plunkett
Severe corrosion of metal connectors on Gumbo Limbo Nature Center’s popular boardwalk has forced Boca Raton to close the wooden pathway until it can be repaired or renovated, a task that could take at least six months and more t
All’s square between the city and the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District for the first time in years.
The district paid an unexpected almost $2 million for a beach renourishment project that Boca Raton thought the federal government wo
By Cheryl Blackerby
The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District has been without an executive director since mid-August, and the search may not begin anytime soon.
Former executive director Bob Langford told the board in late 2011 that he was g
By Cheryl Blackerby
The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District commissioners discussed the need for tablet computers at their Sept. 22 meeting.
Commissioners, who presently use their private computers for district business, quizzed Bob Pawa, rep
