By Jane Smith
To make way for the ambitious Town Square project, Boynton Beach will operate its library, City Hall, Fire Station 1 and police headquarters out of temporary buildings mostly in Quantum Park, off Gateway Boulevard and west of Interstate
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Volunteers work in the Briny Breezes Library in 1972. It looks much the same today. Photos from Overdue in Paradise
By Ron Hayes
The libraries are big and small, public and private. Academic, deeply religious or passionate about medicine. They’re Fin
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach administrators want to combine the library with a new city hall in the ambitious Town Square development.
To do so, they are determining whether the Boynton Woman’s Club, recently purchased by the city’s Community R
Eugene and Maureen Garrett found refuge and a card game at the Highland Beach Library. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
In the days after Hurricane Irma left air conditioners silent, reading lamps dark and cellphones feeble, refugees fro
New Commissioner Elyse Riesa takes her oath of office at Town Hall on March 23,
assisted by Deputy Town Clerk Lanelda Gaskins.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
When Highland Beach commissioners decided to break with years of tradition
Nancy Dockerty and Caron Dockerty are the event’s new chairwomen. Photo provided
By Amy Woods
Laugh With the Library turns 11 this year. The signature showcase of comedy that sells out every season has raised more than $1 million to promote r
By Jane Smith
City leaders want to reclassify some “agencies” that receive taxpayer dollars as “service providers.”
“We need to move away from using ‘nonprofit status’ to describe them,” Delray Beach Mayor Cary Glickstein said in mid-Nov
By Amy Woods
From her first day to her last, the director of community relations at the Delray Beach Public Library loved her job.
“It spoke to all the things that I enjoyed doing,” said Bonnie Stelzer, who officially retired Feb. 29 after 1
The Robert & Eugenia Strauss Lecture Hall was dedicated with the unveiling of a large portrait of the Strausses with their beloved pets in front of their landmark Manalapan home. The portrait and expanded lecture hall are a gift from their daughter,
Nancy Boczon was able to find a few mysteries.
BELOW: The current bookmobile is scheduled to be replaced later this year.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
On Nov. 8, 2013, the Palm Beach County Bookmobile made its debut stop a
The New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist had guests rolling in the aisles during a special appearance to discuss his latest book, Live Right & Find Happiness (Although Beer is Much Faster). The humorist offered an u
The Delray Beach Public Library once again had its casual, comical event co-chaired by Heidi Sargeant and Becky Walsh. This year’s headliner was Paul Mecurio, who had guests rolling in their seats. ABOVE: Harvey and Virginia Kimmel pledged $100,000 i
The popular reading-incentive program for teens ages 13 through 17 returned for its fourth year, featuring books that had been banned at some point in history. Piloted by the library’s Teen Advisory Board and Young Adult Services Department and spon
Donna Clarke (left) is taking over the helm of the Briny Breezes library from Lu McInnes. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
Lu McInnes has closed the book on more than two decades as Briny Breezes’ town librarian.
And Donna Clarke is check
A Friends of the Library benefit aimed at raising money to enclose the building’s waterfront porches edged the project a little closer to its $150,000 cost. When the screened-in terraces are finished, they will be turned into meeting rooms, Friends
More than 150 people attended a presentation by Clyde Butcher at the Boca Raton Downtown Library. Photo: Prior to his presentation, Butcher conducted a discussion with students studying advanced photography at Boca Raton High School. Exhibit runs thr
By Betty Wells
Luxury movie theaters and hotels are included in four development proposals for the old library property on Southeast Fourth Avenue in downtown Delray Beach.
Details about the proposals submitted to the Community Redevelopment Ag
Costumed characters, old cars and live music took partygoers on a tour through the decades during the Delray Beach Public Library’s Birthday Bash celebration of its 100th birthday held April 11. Guests, including the 15 ‘Centennial Celebrities’ — the
July, 16, 2012, marked the 70th anniversary of the Vel D'Hiv round-up. On July 16th and 17th, 1942, the French police arrested 13,152 Jewish men, women and children from the Paris area. Initially kept in the Velodrome D'Hiver, they were then taken to
By Rich Pollack
A resident who in February publicly shared neighbors’ concerns about the town manager’s oversight of the library and its director now says he is satisfied that the issues have been resolved.
“We are very pleased to have bee
