Croquet players take to the courts at St. Andrews Club, near Gulf Stream. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Photos: St. Andrew's Club - Yesterday and Today
By Mary Thurwachter
You could easily drive down A1A just south of Briny Breezes and not have ink
Batter up!
It’s spring training time. All around Florida’s Grapefruit League, fans are gathering to cheer on their favorite ballplayers, watch the up-and-comers, and drink in the excitement about another baseball season in America.
Pam Carey of Gu
By Steve Plunkett
Homeowners find alternatives as fungus wipes out impatiens
Homeowners who don’t have professionals tending their ficus hedges are the targets of a renewed war on whiteflies.
The pests cause ficus to wilt, turn yellow, drop le
By Steve Plunkett
WPBT’s Evening With Jim Lehrer this month gives top billing to the longtime PBS news anchor and presidential debate moderator, but Gulf Stream Mayor William Koch Jr. comes in a close second.
The Miami-based station will present Ko
By Steve Plunkett
Water bills in Gulf Stream will have a new $30 charge every two months to save up for future repairs.
“Basically what we are recommending is that we immediately begin billing an additional base fee,” Town Manager William Thras
In the late 1990s, internationally acclaimed artist Diana Nicosia of Gulf Stream was waiting at the Rome airport for a delayed flight when she struck up a conversation with a man in a black suit sitting next to her. He turned out to be Cardinal Joh
Gulf Stream’s Mayor Bill Koch (center right) and Town Manager Bill Thrasher (right) recently joined Homeowners Association President Julio Martinez (center left) and the board’s project manager, Ned McDonald (left) to mark the official opening of th
By Steve Plunkett
Gulf Stream town leaders have abandoned hope of recovering any property taxes that residents of the annexed pocket are paying Palm Beach County for services they no longer receive.
At the town’s urging, County Commissioner Ste
By Ron Hayes
GULF STREAM — On the wall of his New York study, the celebrated journalist Bill Moyers keeps signed photographs of the great men he has known — John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson.
He also keeps a photograph of Robert F
Eleanor and Heath Larry stand beside their Bentley at the Ballentrae condominium in the late 1970s.
Photo provided
By Ron Hayes
GULF STREAM — Heath and Eleanor Larry were married for 73 years.
She died on Nov. 20, at 95.
He died on Dec. 18, e
By Allen Whittemore
If anyone knows this pleasant little stretch of A1A well, it’s Tom Hill.
He has been working here since 1973 and in the Delray Beach/Gulf Stream area since 1970. He is the first and only manager of the Ballantrae Condomini
By Steve Plunkett
The Spence estate is no more.
A demolition crew razed the 74-year-old house in late November, keeping the property on track to become Gulf Stream’s first subdivision in recent memory. Seaside Builders LLC won approval Nov. 10 t
By Steve Plunkett
Townsfolk apparently don’t like paying the interest that comes with installment plans.
Gulf Stream took in $3.2 million in prepayments of the special assessment for the underground utilities project by the Nov. 1 deadline, Tow
By Emily J. Minor
GULF STREAM — Ethel Sloan Allen, the consummate Great Gatsby girl whose coming out as a debutante was much ballyhooed by the famous New York gossip writer, Cholly Knickerbocker, died Oct. 26 at her home in Gulf Stream. She was
By Emily J. Minor
GULF STREAM — Thomas Mulry, a lifelong financial adviser for the utilities industry who began coming to Gulf Stream in the early 1960s when he and his wife were just newlyweds, died Oct. 23 after a brief illness. He was 79.
“He loved
By Steve Plunkett
Coastal communities are banding with their mainland counterparts to brand as an illegal tax the county’s plan to bill municipalities for the new Inspector General’s Office.
“This suit would not challenge the vote in regard to havin
