By Dan Moffett
About once in every generation, voters in Gulf Stream actually get the chance to go to the polls and select the people who run their government.
The town’s last contested election for a commission seat was in 1993.
Gasolin
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Town Commission candidate Martin O’Boyle, long embroiled with Gulf Stream officials over the town’s codes, took on neighboring Delray Beach last month in a federal lawsuit alleging
Gulf Stream School had a brief return to its roots on Feb. 19 as young polo players presented an exhibition game on the school’s lacrosse field. The school was built in 1938 on part of the original Gulfstream Polo Club.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
James Warnke, Marion Bentley Wall and Roland James Dack,
founders of Roving Photographers.
Photo contributed
By Mary Thurwachter
In 1972, an amateur photographer and world traveler from Gulf Stream joined two men whose skills complemented her o
Police and licensed trappers capture a rare American crocodile Jan. 5 on the Little Club Golf Course
in Gulf Stream. This same crocodile also may have been spotted along the Intracoastal Waterway
from Boca Raton to Lake Worth. It was transferred to
By Dan Moffett
Gulf Stream commissioners came to their first meeting of the new year primed for a lively discussion with the town’s civic association over a charter change to staggered elections.
What commissioners got instead was another deb
Two of Gulf Stream’s harshest and loudest critics have picked up campaign packets from the town clerk and are considering a run for the Town Commission in the March 11 municipal election.
Martin O’Boyle, who took the town to court last year i
After 13 years afloat, this Boston Whaler dinghy made its way
from the Turks and Caicos to the beach in Gulf Stream.
Photo provided by the Gulf Stream Police Department
INSET BELOW: Larry Conway
By Cheryl Blackerby
The little dinghy was lost
Rich Schofield, Kristen Murtaugh and Beth Ensor take part in the Audubon Christmas Bird Count on the beach in Ocean Ridge. Their tools include binoculars, a spotting scope on a tripod, bird guides and digital camera. Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal
Heart of a Woman luncheon sponsor Jeannette DeOrchis, with Pam O’Brien, president and CEO of Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse, and luncheon Chairwoman Ann Bennett of Gulf Stream. Photo provided
By Amy Woods
Olympia Dukakis’ signature silver locks
By Dan Moffett
Gulf Stream commissioners have given preliminary approval to a proposal that would put staggered commission terms on the ballot for the March election.
But the go-ahead comes with a stipulation that the town’s civic association
Garrett Dering
No matter how Gulf Stream decides to run its elections, Commissioner Garrett Dering says his days as a town commissioner are numbered.
“I have no intention of running for election this time,” he told commissioners. So, if you
AFTER: Kirsten and Tom Stanley raised the roof and gutted their Gulf Stream kitchen.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
BEFORE: A wall blocked the flow into the Stanleys’ cramped kitchen.
Tom Stanley’s grandparents bought the orange butcher-b
By Dan Moffett
At the urging of the town’s civic association, Gulf Stream commissioners are planning to take a hard look at their elections and consider changes to the charter.
Last month, the civic association sent a letter to the commission
By Tim O’Meilia
The logo on the main page of “The Un-Official Guide to the Town of Gulf Stream” website includes an upside-down town seal. Take that as a hint to the content within.
Gulf Stream resident Christopher O’Hare’s site skewers town
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By Tim Pallesen
Delray Beach has asked Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue for a price quote to take over fire-rescue operations in the city.
The concept is
By Tim O’Meilia
The long-necked, long-lived streetlights Gulf Stream had hoped to install along State Road A1A came at an equally long-lasting price — $315,000.
The 35 cobra-headed black poles would have been fitted with energy saving LED ligh
GULF STREAM — Carl E. Touhey, a lifelong Albany, N.Y., businessman and a winter resident of Gulf Stream, passed away Aug. 25 at the remarkable age of 95.
He was a graduate of the Albany Academy and Princeton University (class of ’39).
He ran a st
By Jane Smith
GULF STREAM — Rose Rita Bianchini, who moved to Broward County with her husband in 1971, died at her home on Sept. 23, surrounded by her family. She was 86.
In 1991, the Bianchinis moved to Gulf Stream. Every Sunday her two sons and t
A story in the August issue on the town of Gulf Stream budget incorrectly stated the status of proposed police salary increases. The police have no contract, and all town employees are being considered for 2.5 percent raises.
