As you may already know, the Gulf Stream School has applied through the town of Gulf Stream to have an amendment approved that would allow them to enroll 50 more students at the school.
Fifty more students means 50 more cars twice per day as most of
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By Steve Plunkett
Monthly garbage bills went up 22.6% on April 1 for back or side-door pickup at single-family homes and could rise even more in six months.
The rates for multi-family containerized service jumped 44.4%.
Waste Management Inc. of Flori
Core area resident Joe Hardiman asks a question about flooding during an informational session last month at Gulf Stream School. He and other residents posed more than a half hour’s worth of questions to town and construction project officials. Jerry
By Steve Plunkett
An ad hoc committee of planning board members and interested citizens is busy looking for ways to make sure the mass of a new home doesn’t overshadow its neighbors.
“We have been tiptoeing around the massing issue for the last 10 ye
Although I live in Broward County, I enjoy your publication. It’s refreshing to see true journalism in a newspaper, rather than political advocacy.
I was saddened by the front page article in your February edition about the cyclists who were involve
By Anne Geggis
The woman who drove into a group of nine cyclists along State Road A1A in Gulf Stream early Jan. 4 suffered a medical event at the time, according to a Florida Highway Patrol crash report.
Betty Ann Ruiz, driving south in the predawn l
By Steve Plunkett
Going against the grain of other municipalities across Palm Beach County, Gulf Stream’s town commissioners do not support extending the county’s penny sales tax increase another 10 years.
“I object to it,” Mayor Scott Morgan said. “
Gulf Stream announced two important dates for residents of its Core area west of State Road A1A and north of Golfview Drive.
On April 22, work to widen the Core’s narrow roads and to improve the drainage system and water lines is set to begin.
And on
By Steve Plunkett
Police Chief Richard Jones has another letter of commendation for his scrapbook — this time for his lifesaving actions at the horrific Jan. 4 bicycle crash in Gulf Stream.
“It is with deepest gratitude that I write to you to recogni
Police officers and emergency personnel responded to the Jan. 4 crash on State Road A1A. A Kia Soul, at right, was traveling southbound on State Road A1A when it crossed over the center line and plowed into a bicycle pack heading north, eventually co
While the driver rests in her smashed SUV, Gulf Stream police and Delray Beach paramedics attend to the injured bicyclists at the crash scene along State Road A1A in Gulf Stream. Photo provided by Gulf Stream Police Department
SUV rams pack of cyclis
Manalapan Town Attorney Keith Davis (center) provides new commissioners and staff with coaching on the restrictions and rules they face. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
13 newcomers set to govern as fight against disclosure law takes shape
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Welcome! It’s exciting to see so many fresh faces on the dais at Town Hall. Thanks to each of you for stepping up to serve the community.
Term limits, personal conflicts and Florida’s financial disclosure law (known as Form 6) opened the door for ma
Related: Deadly disease taking a bite out of St. Augustine lawns
By Steve Plunkett
Town Hall’s lawn is dying, a victim of the sugarcane mosaic virus, which can be transferred from one lot to another on the wheels of a landscaper’s mower.
“It’s a mena
By Steve Plunkett
Town commissioners took less than three minutes to fill an empty seat on their own dais and two domino-like vacancies on the Architectural Review and Planning Board.
For the Town Commission spot, which Paul Lyons Jr. vacated in Dece
Gulf Stream Police Chief Richard Jones is the new president of the Palm Beach County Association of Chiefs of Police. Circuit Judge James Martz, a former police officer and prosecutor, presided over Jones’ swearing-in on Jan. 18 in West Palm Beach. B
By Steve Plunkett
Halfway through the school year, the private Gulf Stream School would get an A for starting a new preschool but a C-minus or lower on its communication skills with town commissioners.
Patrick Donovan, president of the school’s board
Gulf Stream Mayor Scott Morgan speaks with (l to r) Felipe Costa, president of the Galera do Pedal cycle club; Cameron Oster, a cyclist from Boca Raton; and Jeramy Pritchett, a cyclist from Deerfield Beach, at Gulf Stream Town Hall following the Ja
Injured cyclists were members of Galera do Pedal, a mostly Brazilian group
By Anne Geggis
An early-morning crash had one bicyclist on life support and another in an induced coma after an SUV driver plowed into a group of cyclists along State Road A1A
