By Tim O’Meilia
The Manalapan Town Commission’s thoughts of farming out its police dispatch services has drawn interest from three local police departments.
Representatives of neighboring towns Lantana and Ocean Ridge and nearby Delray Beach a
lantana (659)
Contractor Steve Varga is cutting hours of commuting each week by boating to work. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
After the Lantana bridge closed for 22 months last March 18, residents on both sides of the Intracoastal Waterway reconciled t
Leroy Hull works out with personal trainer Nicole Catts at Lantana Fitness.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Paula Dettwiller
There are two different approaches to running a health club, says David Arm, owner of Lantana Fitness along with his wife,
Nearly 20 people participated in Saturday afternoon Mass inside the Manalapan Library. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Tim Pallesen
The closing of the Lantana Bridge hasn’t kept Catholics who live in Manalapan from attending Mass.
Instead, a p
Several seawalls, pools and yards in Manalapan were seriously damaged by the constant pounding of the surf from Hurricane Sandy and seasonal high tides. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
More photos from Hurricane Sandy
By Tim O’Meilia
No hurricane
By Tim O’Meilia
Officials of south county coastal towns fear that signing on to a regional beach management plan now in the works would cost their taxpayers money without guaranteeing any new sand on eroding beaches.
Several environmental g
By Mary Thurwachter
The four remaining members of the Lantana Town Council will go it alone until the March 12 election, opting not to appoint anyone to the Group 2 seat vacated last month by Cindy Austino.
Austino, who is moving to Florida’s Panhand
Cindy Austino
By Mary Thurwachter
The Lantana Town Council is losing its sole female voice. Vice Mayor Pro Tem Cindy Austino, who has served on the council for five years, announced at the close of the Aug. 27 meeting that she would be leaving very s
Changes may be in store for the Carlisle, the high-end, six-story senior living community at the corner of A1A and Ocean Avenue in Lantana.
Up for discussion at the Sept. 10 Lantana Town Council meeting will be a request from the Carlisle to reduce t
By Tim O’Meilia
Four things learned from last month’s visit of President Obama and Vice President Biden:
1. Waiting onlookers and reporters like pizza, ice cream and cinnamon-nut French toast.
2. Roped-off parking lots mean no parking me
By Mary Thurwachter
Tax rates haven’t been raised in Lantana for 11 years and that won’t change this year.
Council members set the preliminary tax rate at $3.24 per $1,000 of a home’s assessed value at their July 23 meeting.
“We’ve been thr
Workers from GLF Construction Corp. use a crane to hoist materials while demolishing and rebuilding the Ocean Avenue Bridge in Lantana. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Tim O’Meilia
It’s the old “good news/bad news” cliché.
The good news is that the elusive environmental impact study for the perhaps illusory plan to save South Palm Beach’s eroding beach and maintain Lantana’s seawall is being revived.
T
By Mary Thurwachter
For the second time in seven months, Lantana plans to splurge on a waterfront land purchase on the west side of the Intracoastal Waterway just north of Ocean Avenue. The town will spend $965,000 for lots at 206, 210 and 302 N. Lak
Workers from GLF Construction Corp. cut steel during
the replacement of the Ocean Avenue Bridge in Lantana.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Tim O’Meilia
The final resting place for the soon-to-be-demolished East Ocean Avenue Bridge in Lantana will
The span on the west side has been removed as demolition continues on Lantana’s Ocean Avenue Bridge. Its replacement is expected to open in two years. Photo by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Mary Thurwachter
After a day of interviewing seven candidates on April 13, the Lantana Town Council unanimously chose Deborah Manzo as the town’s new manager.
Although Manzo, who is Greenacres assistant city manager, won’t officially begin until
By Mary Thurwachter
Commander Sean Scheller was officially sworn in as Lantana’s police chief on April 23, two weeks after former Chief Jeff Tyson was fired after DUI charges in Boca Raton.
Scheller, who has been with the Lantana Police Depart
By Emily J. Minor
HYPOLUXO ISLAND — Hers was a life full of passion, people and laughter, lots of laughter.
“Anyone who met Lib loved her,” remembers Sharon Ehlers, who cared for Mary Elizabeth Sory in the years before Miss Sory’s death.
“Actual
Police Chief Jeff Tyson was fired April 5 after his being arrested in Boca Raton on April 4 for DUI and leaving the scene of an accident.
Official word of Tyson’s termination was announced in a statement from Town Manager Mike Bornstein, who
