By Dan Moffett
Manalapan has the lowest tax rate in Palm Beach County, and some of its highest property values and budget reserves that are the envy of communities across the bridge.
So finding $750,000 to replace the town’s failing Audubon Cau
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Vice-Mayor Louis De Stefano listens to the concerns of protestors after the Town Meeting. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Dan Moffett
About a dozen friends, relatives and supporters of a Haitian student turned out at Manalapan Town Hall on
INSET BELOW: Manalapan Officer David Hul
By Dan Moffett
Town officials have moved to fire a three-year veteran of the police department over the officer’s handling of a February incident involving employees at Manalapan Pizza.
The town
Donna Schneier’s collection forms the show ‘Unique by Design’ at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Envelopes get pushed when art dealer Donna Schneier is involved.
The Manalapan resident’s latest coup is an envi
By Dan Moffett
After viewing an engineering consultant’s slide show and getting reassuring answers to another round of unsettling questions, the Manalapan Town Commission unanimously agreed to move forward with a plan to replace the aging Audubon
By Ron Hayes
MANALAPAN — Robert P. Strauss loved his family, opera, ballet, museums — and the town he called home for 27 years.
“My father truly loved being in Manalapan,” his daughter, Kimberly Strauss, recalled recently. “He and my mother t
By Dan Moffett
Unhappy with the engineering advice they got for a street paving project two years ago, Manalapan town commissioners don’t want to make the same mistake again when they tackle the Audubon Causeway bridge project.
So, commission
Dan Bates, Palm Beach County’s environment resource management director, had mixed news during a recent meeting with Manalapan’s task force on beach issues.
The good news was that the contours of Manalapan’s coastline help its beaches collect
Three uncontested races have left the Manalapan Town Commission with two new faces.
Clark Appleby, a member of the town’s zoning commission, claims the at-large seat vacated by John Murphy, and Ronald Barsanti, an alternate on the architectur
Cory Lambe (left) clears out drains along Lands End Road on Hypoluxo Island.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Bill Otis and Challis Thompson chat while checking out flooding on the north end
of McKinley Park on Hypoluxo Island.
By Dan Moff
By Dan Moffett
Manalapan’s Audubon Causeway bridge project took on a new sense of urgency seconds after Town Manager Linda Stumpf told commissioners how long engineers say it will take to get it done.
“Just so you know, from the time you deci
Three residents of Point Manalapan have received campaign packets from the town clerk and could compete for two of the three open Town Commission seats in the March 11 municipal election.
The potential candidates include: Kelly Gottlieb, who
By Dan Moffett
Immigrants have landed on Manalapan’s shores several times during the last year, and perhaps it isn’t by chance.
Authorities are beginning to believe that the town has something the migrants are looking for: taxis for hire.
The aging Audubon Causeway bridge must be replaced or repaired.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Dan Moffett
Commissioners will have to dig deeper than expected into town reserves to replace or repair the aging Audubon Causeway bridge on Point M
Pedro Maldonado (below) works to create what he hopes will become
the world’s most valuable dreidel (above) at his studio
in Manalapan’s Plaza del Mar.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
Pedro Maldonado learned how to make jewelry by
An artist rendering of the new logo for Eau Palm Beach.
By Dan Moffett
After grumbling for months over the loss of the Ritz-Carlton name at Manalapan’s landmark hotel and spa, town commissioners took a major step toward acceptance when they gav
Before and during construction, merchants on either side of the Intracoastal Waterway fretted about how the Ocean Avenue bridge closing would hurt their businesses. Now that the new span has opened, some confess it wasn’t so bad, after all. But other
By Tim O’Meilia
Oceanfront Manalapan residents made crystal clear they want no part of the regional beach management program designed to make approval of new renourishment projects smoother and quicker.
In an email and snail mail survey of th
By Tim O’Meilia
Pressed to reject a traffic-stop policy that has been linked to racial profiling in major cities, Manalapan town commissioners unanimously ratified withdrawal of the program that had been discontinued 21 months ago.
The commis
Diane Duffy and Scott Agran in the newly opened Lang Realty office
in the Plaza Del Mar shopping center in Manalapan.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
INSETS BELOW: Brock Rosayn (left); Phyllis Alexander (right)
By Christine Davis
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