By Tim O’Meilia
Manalapan town commissioners upheld Town Manager Linda Stumpf’s recommendation of a 3 percent salary increase for general employees, two part-time weekend police officers to patrol the beach and a six-car police fleet.
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By Emily J. Minor
MANALAPAN — Around town, they called her “Manalapan’s mom” — mostly because she was friendly and kind and downright adorable. “The past four or five years, she gave up the snowbird thing and just lived down here permanently,” s
Damian Presiga, of Britannia Pacific Properties retrieves the Ritz-Carlton lion logo as Gaddi Dominguez takes down the rest of the Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach sign on July 1 in Manalapan.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Manalapan: Ritz name change concerns
By Tim O’Meilia
Manalapan streets would have new street and traffic signs, the Town Hall new air conditioners and upgraded computer software, the police a new patrol car and town employees a 3 percent raise under a preliminary budget being conside
By Tim O’Meilia
Manalapan town commissioners backed away from proposed seawall standards that would require all seawalls be able to withstand a storm as strong as Hurricane Andrew.
Prompted by the collapse of ocean seawalls when Hurricane Sandy
By Tim O’Meilia
Budget managers in eight of nine South County coastal communities can exhale.
Taxable real estate values — the stuff property taxes are made of — continues to creep back toward pre-recession levels.
Taxable property values i
One of the best-known and most admired brand names in the world is Ritz-Carlton. It connotes glamour, elegance and luxury. For over 20 years, The Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach was our little “ritzy” spot.
Of course, we’d chuckle at that “Palm Beach” ta
A temporary sign for the Eau Palm Beach was installed July 1. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Tim O’Meilia
The former Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach is now the Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa.
But eau so many Manalapan residents dislike the new name
The Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach will change names and management beginning July 1 following a two-year legal dispute between the owners and Marriott International, which operates the Ritz-Carlton chain.
The 270-room hotel in Manalapan will be re-named Ea
Members of the mass choir swirl their flags during the performance. Photo by David R. Randell
By Ron Hayes
Devin Dykstra is an apple. His brother, Blake, is a banana.
On a Monday evening in May, as the two Manalapan brothers waited in a mirrore
By Tim O’Meilia
The Manalapan Town Commission will try to settle a lawsuit over $158,000 in building permit fees for an oceanfront mansion that was never built.
Commissioners indicated they would likely return the bulk of the fees paid by the
By Ron Hayes
MANALAPAN — Margaret Cole Kotsko, who loved art, books and fashion, died peacefully at her home in the Little Pond complex on May 19, surrounded by her husband of 56 years, Francis R. Kotsko, and other family members.
Mrs. Kotsko w
By Tim O’Meilia
Manalapan town commissioners voted, by a 4-2 count, to apologize to Town Manager Linda Stumpf for one commissioner’s allegations of misuse of her car allowance.
An examination of town payroll records by the town’s outside
By Ron Hayes
MANALAPAN — To the fellow Hoosiers who knew his auto dealership, he was “Big Dan Young, Chevy dealin’ man.”
To the local institutions that benefitted from his generosity, Dan Young was known for his big heart.
Mr. Young was killed M
Friends Josepha Peters of Winter Haven, Shake Potoukian of Fort Lauderdale, Cecile Guekjian of Miami
and Rosemary VanWitzenburg of Fort Lauderdale raise a cup at TeaLicious Tea Room
in Delray Beach. The women meet all over the state to try different
Judges Aldon James and Bruce Sutka had a tough time selecting the most creative hats among the 140 worn by guests of the Armory Art Center benefit, finally picking seven winners. The event raised $54,000 for the center’s programs. Photo: Daphne Fess
Honoring her successful and philanthropic father, George Rothman (who regularly swam miles each day well into his 80s), Doris Rothman Browning of Tequesta and Carson City, Nev., has given $1 million to construct the Mandel JCC aquatics center in
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami has begun an investigation of allegations by a Manalapan resident that the town’s Police Department engages in racial profiling.
Resident Kersen De Jong first filed a formal complaint with the Florida Department of
Town voters, the few who did vote, overwhelmingly approved a charter change imposing term limits on the mayor and commissioners by a 52-14 margin.
Elected officials can serve a maximum of three consecutive two-year terms as either mayor or commis
Manalapan Town Clerk Lisa Petersen administers the oath of office to Commissioner-Elect Chauncey Johnstone (left), Mayor-Elect David Cheifetz, Commisioner Tom Thornton and Commissioner-Elect Peter Isaac in the Commission Chambers. Kurtis Boggs/The Co
