By Tim O’Meilia
For the second time in two years, the Manalapan Town Commission rejected bids from outside agencies to handle the town’s police dispatch services.
Both neighboring Ocean Ridge and Lantana submitted proposals well under the town’s $2
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By Tim O’Meilia
Before Manalapan Commissioner Howard Roder could make a motion to fire Town Manager Linda Stumpf, the other commissioners quickly gave her a 5-1 vote of confidence Dec. 18.
“I want to consider other candidates for the position o
By Tim O’Meilia
Kathy Clark had been a police dispatcher for the Boca Raton Police Department for 18 years and was taking college courses to become a paralegal when her dad asked her for help.
Could she fill in as a dispatcher in Manalapan? Her fat
Related photos/story: Aging seawalls no match for Sandy’s overtopping waters | Graphic: How the seawalls failed
By Tim O’Meilia
Medical supply entrepreneur David Lumia and his wife, Margaret, were in their Manalapan carriage house on the west
LEFT: Homeowners, property managers and state coastal officials toured a few properties, including the home of New Age musician Yanni, that had extensive damage.
RIGHT: DEP official Tony McNeal examines portions of the failed seaw
By Tim O’Meilia
Manalapan town commissioners verbally skirmished over police criminal statistics, police dispatch services and whether residents and commissioners were burdening the town staff with too many requests.
In the end — nearly four h
By Christine Davis
In real estate it’s always been about location, but it’s also about positioning — as can be seen by the number of firms opening or consolidating offices in Palm Beach County’s coastal areas. Agents, too, who have changed offices, ar
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
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
The sold-out luncheon honored five volunteers for their work and accomplishments and raised more than $200,000 in support of Bethesda Hospital’s Center for Women & Children.
Photo: (l-r) Todd Crawley of Wells Fargo, the Women of Grace Title Sponso
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
Ten years ago, a gang of four Point Manalapan residents made a federal case out of voting districts in Manalapan, where oceanside residents had half the U.S. census-tallied residents but twice the number of seats on the Town Comm
By Tim O’Meilia
For months, Manalapan town commissioners discussed ways to beef up police presence in Ocean Inlet Park and Bird Island to shoo away trespassers and turn down the beach volume.
Adding a marine patrol unit, expanding the beach patrol w
By Tim O’Meilia
Manalapan voters will have a chance to set term limits on its commissioners and allow the mayor’s presence to count toward getting a quorum for meetings when some commissioners are away.
Those two possible changes in the town charter
By Tim O’Meilia
One of the nation’s richest communities — where almost every home has a waterfront view — hides a sclerotic and rotting network of water pipes beneath its finely landscaped lawns.
Ten years after a previous Town Commission rejected t
Director Amy London gives instruction to Hannah Joyce, 13,
of Ocean Ridge, at The Plaza Theatre in Manalapan. London is
leading the students in Frank Loesser’s 1961 musical How to
Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. Tim Stepien/The Coastal
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 Tim O’Meilia
Imagine unmanned drones patrolling the Manalapan shoreline or helium-filled balloons surveilling the beach or infra-red cameras spying north and south after dark along the oceanfront. However fantastic and unlikely — except perhaps
