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By Tim O’Meilia

Three coastal communities signed a mutual aid agreement last month that will guarantee quick police response to calls on Hypoluxo Island during the 19 months the new East Ocean Avenue bridge is under construction in Lantana.
The agreeme

A1A in Manalapan will be closed to all but emergency vehicles and local traffic March 5-9 as a private tunnel is constructed.  Expect delays.

By Tim O’Meilia
    
As the presidential election season rumbles on elsewhere, in south Palm Beach County coastal towns, there’s no place more comforting for an incumbent than a high-backed chair behind the council dais.
    Of the 19 seats up for elect

By Jan Norris

    Two years is a long time to go without Pamela’s grapefruit pie, or a plate of Peruvian fish and pepper cream sauce or George’s famous chicken salad.
    Once the Ocean Avenue bridge closes, shutting off Lantana from the coastal reside

Gerardo Aponte, a ground maintenance worker for the town of Lantana, stops traffic on Ocean Avenue as a donated ponytail palm is moved from Hypoluxo Island to the Lantana Public Library. Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal Star

By Mary Thurwachter

    A week

By Tim O’Meilia
    
A former Lantana police officer was sentenced to three years in prison Jan. 10 after pleading guilty to stealing cash from Hispanic men during traffic stops.
    Mark Ott, 36, pleaded guilty to three counts of targeting Hispanic me

By Tim O’Meilia

    While the Ocean Avenue Bridge is rebuilt beginning in mid-March, Lantana’s Hypoluxo Island residents may see the strobing blue lights of a Manalapan or South Palm Beach police cruiser first when they call for law enforcement help

By Steve Plunkett

    Motorists on A1A will encounter a traffic snag two weeks before the Ocean Avenue bridge closes March 18.
Resident G. John Krediet is building a private pedestrian tunnel under State Road A1A that will close the highway to all but

The current Lake Worth bridge (above) was built in 1973 to replace the concrete bridge built in 1937 (below).

Photo by Tim Stepien

By Tim O’Meilia

    In the mid-1910s, when Lake Worth city fathers figured it was time for a handsome wooden bridge to r

By Jan Norris
In our quest to help coastal residents replace businesses that will be cut off once the Ocean Avenue bridge in Lantana closes next month, here are those that can fill in for customers using the Lake Worth bridge.
These are just a few o

    Once Lantana’s Ocean Avenue Bridge closes in March, island dwellers will be looking to other businesses and restaurants for some of the same services and foods. Some favorite Lantana spots will be worth the drive (of course) and many favorite res

By Margie Plunkett
    
Despite years of budget scrimping, Lantana Council went on a spending spree in December, approving a $1.2 million waterfront land purchase and $38,735 in beach pavilion renovations.
    The bank-owned Intracoastal property to be

By Tim O’Meilia
    
Out-of-towners traveling I-95 and headed for the Ritz-Carlton Resort in Manalapan or Grandma and Grandpa’s condo in South Palm Beach better have an updated GPS system.
    When the Ocean Avenue bridge is closed in March for repl

By Margie Plunkett
and Tim O’Meilia
   
Lantana’s Ocean Avenue bridge closed for two years — bummer.
    Lantana’s lease of sections of two parks for two years — cause for fireworks. Literally.
    The new $33.2 million Ocean Avenue bridge will not onl

By Margie Plunkett
   
A long-awaited drainage and pavement project on Hypoluxo Island is taking shape with a newly awarded contract for design and construction assistance for paving improvements.
    Council approved at its Nov. 14 meeting a $26,623 c

By Thom Smith

Call it the tale of two bridges. But the climax, thrilling or depressing, won’t be written for months … or even years.
    Delray’s Atlantic Avenue Bridge will be closed until Nov. 23 for a face lift. Crews will work from 10 p.m. to 6