By Rich Pollack
Responding in part to an incident where anti-Semitic words and gestures were aimed at an out-of-town visitor, town commissioners last month unanimously passed a resolution denouncing “hateful acts of intolerance.”
Championed by depart
Highland Beach has a new mayor and a new town commissioner. In a short meeting last month, with attendance limited to just 10 people because of the coronavirus threat, departing mayor Rhoda Zelniker handed the gavel to new Mayor Doug Hillman — b
By Rich Pollack
Concerns about the coronavirus have led Highland Beach leaders to cancel the 2020 Spring Fling, originally scheduled for March 21.
“Based on information from the Centers for Disease Control and the Florida Department of Health, we are
By Rich Pollack
They were almost two years in the making, but Highland Beach finally has clear rules for parking on its six side streets.
For decades the rules for parking on residential streets — lined with single-family homes and multifamily townhom
Place of Hope’s second recognition ceremony on Jan. 28 at St. Lucy Catholic Church honored local leaders in law enforcement as well as elected officials. Keynote speaker Liza Smoker discussed human trafficking, one of the nonprofit’s focus areas. Smo
By Rich Pollack
After months of negotiating with state officials, Highland Beach finally has the green light to go ahead with long-awaited safety improvements to eight crosswalks on State Road A1A.
The town already has engineering reports and even ha
By Charles Elmore
The 2020 Census arrives a decade after 1.4 million folks in Florida were left out of the nation’s last official head count, according to a federal review.
Up and down the coast, communities are scrambling to avoid undercounts as cen
Update: Town cancels Spring Fling event
By Rich Pollack
The environment will be in the spotlight during the town’s annual Spring Fling community event, which will also feature food, a fire department demonstration and live music.
Set for 11 a.m. to
Baby Jesus lay in his manger at St. Lucy Catholic Church before he was stolen Jan. 1 and taken to Broward County. He was returned several days later. Photo provided
By Rich Pollack
It was a whodunit with biblical overtones — and a mysterious happy e
Parking for the county’s proposed Milani Park would be in the grassy area west of A1A (upper left). Photo provided
By Rich Pollack
For more than 30 years, Highland Beach and residents of the Boca Highland Beach Club and Marina have fought county pla
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach will get a new mayor and a new commissioner come March along with a returning vice mayor, after three candidates for commission seats ran unopposed.
In what appears to be a calm in Highland Beach elections not seen for
Joan Weir and her daughter, Louise Glover, stroll Highland Beach near Yamato Rock, a limestone outcropping slated to become part of Milani Park. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Louise Glover remembers when she and her friends would gath
By Rich Pollack
In its efforts to improve visibility of crosswalks along State Road A1A, Highland Beach is going red.
Taking a page out of Delray Beach’s playbook, Highland Beach officials hope to repave the eight crosswalks within town limits with t
A 28-foot Christmas tree and a 15-foot menorah were lighted as the crowd sang along with Boynton Beach High School’s acclaimed Dimensional Harmony choral group during the annual holiday celebration. The Boca Raton High School ROTC presented the color
By Rich Pollack
For months Highland Beach commissioners have been trying to come up with rules for parking on the town’s side streets, only to discover roadblocks standing in the way of workable solutions.
The challenge is how to make it possible for
Decorations at Highland Beach Town Hall are a little more modest this year. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
The holidays are bright at Town Hall again this year but not quite as eye-catching since two oversize decorations have been moth
By Rich Pollack
HIGHLAND BEACH — The phone call came in the middle of that April 1970 night letting Jerry Goldmacher know that Apollo 13 was in trouble. Mr. Goldmacher, the spacecraft manager at Grumman Aerospace for the lunar excursion module that w
By Rich Pollack
The sign proclaiming the large open space at the south end of Highland Beach to be the future location of Cam D. Milani Park is likely to remain there for at least another five years.
What will happen to the 5.6-acre property — and
By Rich Pollack
In what could be seen as a well-crafted end run around the state’s transportation agency, the town is going straight to the Florida Legislature in hopes of getting additional funding for projects along State Road A1A.
Highland Beach o
By Rich Pollack
A Delray Beach gun shop owner whose text let a friend who is charged with bilking a Highland Beach widow out of close to $3 million know investigators were looking for related records was charged last month with criminal disclosure of
