By Steve Plunkett
Fond recollections and a stirring tribute to the late Mayor William Koch Jr. marked the Gulf Stream Town Commission’s first meeting in the post-Koch era.
Town Attorney John “Skip” Randolph remembered being a “wet behind the ears” la
By Steve Plunkett
Town police, who monitor a 20 mph speed limit throughout Gulf Stream, will install six stop signs and establish a school zone on Gulfstream Road to slow motorists even more.
Delivery trucks and construction vehicles combine with the t
Bill Koch and his wife, Mary Lou, with polo stars
Del Carroll, Buddy Combs, Russell Firestone and William Mayer.
By Ron Hayes
If the people of Gulf Stream remember William F. Koch Jr. as lovingly as he remembered the town, history will have been
Pamela Goodman
By Tim Pallesen
Pamela Goodman fought hard for redistricting as a League of Women Voters leader.
So the Gulf Stream resident says it makes sense for her to become a candidate now that the boundary for a coastal South County state Hous
By Steve Plunkett
Mayor William Koch Jr., who served as Gulf Stream’s top elected official for more than half his life, has died. He was 91.
Despite being a very public servant, Mayor Koch was a “very private and humble man,” the town said about his
By Tim O’Meilia
Six months after a win-win truce was declared in the struggle over the future of a six-acre Gulf Stream estate and the demolition of its 75-year-old mansion, a “hole in the sky” has re-opened the battle.
Neighbors of the soon-to-be b
By Tim Pallesen
Gulf Stream’s bill for fire protection from Delray Beach will jump 35 percent to $428,198 this year.
“It’s a result of annexation. Delray Beach is providing additional service because our land mass has increased,” Gulf Stream tow
The view of the construction site from one neighbor’s driveway used to be blocked by a banyan tree, vines, shrubs and other vegetation. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Steve Plunkett
Forget the day-in, day-out clank-clank-clank of bulldozers lev
A Leatherback sea turtle returns to the ocean after depositing her eggs at first light on the beach in Gulf Stream on April 6.
Photo by Joan Lorne, Sea Turtle Monitor
Charles and Anna Carlino’s Polynesian-style home on Avenue Au Soleil in Gulf Stream.
By Christine Davis
There are a few people in South Florida’s tropical paradise who live in literal Shangri-Las.
Take for example, Bruce and Muriel “Mert” And
Adian and Sydney O'Connor look through the seaweed in
search of sea beans while on the beach in Ocean Ridge. Tim Stepien.The Coastal Star
By Antigone Barton
It can be a puzzling sight: mounds of newly arrived seaweed lying in the tracks of the tr
Bruce Anderson volunteering at Palm Beach State College. Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal Star
By Steve Pike
John F. Kennedy once said: “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
Bruce Anderson was living that belief long before JFK ent
By Steve Plunkett
Gulf Stream’s project to bury electric and other utility lines is at least two months behind schedule even before a shovel hits the ground.
Consulting engineer Danny Brannon told town commissioners at their March 16 meeting that he is
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
