Price could reach up to $3.5 million for two projects
Highland Beach Officer James Thornton (at wheel) and Officer Stephen Salach patrol the Intracoastal Waterway. Residents say the number of speeding boats has diminished since the patrol launched i
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The Blue Anchor is a popular spot for St. Patrick’s Day, because you can combine access to food, drink and the parade all in one location. File photo by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Jan Norris
That annual beer-drinking festival arrives this month
Boynton Beach city commissioners approved an agreement Oct. 15 with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection related to a massive sewage spill into the Intracoastal Waterway in July 2023.
The city didn’t admit or deny any of the department’
By Rich Pollack
State Rep. Peggy Gossett-Seidman knew something was wrong after she leaped into the Intracoastal Waterway last year to cool off on the Fourth of July.
“It looked like green pea soup,” she said, adding that she washed off as soon as s
Repairs continue on a sewer pipe that leaked into the Intracoastal Waterway near Marina Village in Boynton Beach. It is estimated that some 12 million gallons of wastewater emptied into the Intracoastal Waterway during a a three-day breach. The Flori
Ocean Ridge community policing officer Debra Boyle holds Remy, the 9-year-old German shepherd she rescued from the Intracoastal Waterway. Rachel S. O’Hara/The Coastal Star
Ocean Ridge officer honored for rescuing German shepherd that fell into waterw
By Steve Plunkett
Town commissioners bounced back plans for a two-story home on a cove off the Intracoastal Waterway as too big, telling the advisory Architectural Review and Planning Board to revisit the structure’s overall massing.
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Four people escaped injury when the boat they were on caught fire in a finger canal just off the Intracoastal Waterway in Boca Raton. Boca Raton Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Jason Stout said the cause of the fire that destroyed the boat in the water b
A boat speeds along the Intracoastal Waterway north of Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack and Jane Smith
It was a perfect Florida June day when Harold “JR” Ewing, his wife and daughter boarded their 16-foot
Boaters of all shapes and ages wade through the shallow waters of Lake Boca Raton,
surrounded by thousands of boats, personal watercraft and paddleboards. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Boca Raton: Boca Bash: Thousands of boats, plenty of
Plenty of beer, a lack of fabric and a sunny day brought out a variety of reactions. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
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By Joe Capozzi
Af
By Dan Moffett
Manalapan officials are exploring ways to slow down Jet Skis and other recreational vessels in the Intracoastal lagoon.
Residents have complained for years about the high wakes caused by watercraft traveling too fast and too close to d
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach will have a second person review police payroll reimbursement requests for manatee protection after the county Office of Inspector General pointed out documentation problems.
The OIG report, released on Dec. 21, states tha
By Steve Plunkett
After one public outreach session on how to design Wildflower Park and a separate outreach session and an online survey for neighboring Silver Palm Park, consultant Kona Gray was not happy.
“Individually as parks they work. But toget
By Steve Plunkett
The public has a new spot downtown to watch boat traffic on the Intracoastal Waterway.
City officials opened the Wildflower site, at the northwest corner of the Palmetto Park Road bridge over the waterway, to pedestrians and v
By Jane Smith
Marine Way residents in Delray Beach are bracing for more seasonal flooding from the autumn king tides. Water can be knee-deep in some areas.
The Delray Beach streets prone to flooding sit next to the Intracoastal Waterway. The ki
Rene Gross says wakes from boats have pushed up planks and yanked mooring cleats from the wooden dock where he keeps his boats. His dock is on one of the spur canals perpendicular to the Intracoastal Waterway south of Woolbright Road. Willie Howard/T
By Steve Plunkett
The city-owned Wildflower parcel on the Intracoastal Waterway now has the papers to prove it’s a park.
City Council members changed the site’s designation on Boca Raton’s comprehensive land-use plan to “recreation and open
By Steve Plunkett
Following the sweeping November victory of a citizen initiative to reserve all city-owned land on the Intracoastal Waterway for public uses, the City Council has introduced an ordinance to change the Wildflower parcel’s land
By Jane Smith
Boat-loving residents came to Delray Beach’s outreach meeting to hear when work would begin on raising the seawall in Veterans Park and on replacing two docks there for marine access to the Intracoastal Waterway.
The docks will be
