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
manalapan (661)
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
By Tim O’Meilia
It’s the old “good news/bad news” cliché.
The good news is that the elusive environmental impact study for the perhaps illusory plan to save South Palm Beach’s eroding beach and maintain Lantana’s seawall is being revived.
T
Chase Navellier works out on his ‘erg’ rowing machine at his Manalapan home.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
When Chase Navellier first began rowing during his freshman year in high school, his knowledge of the sports was fairly limit
By Steve Plunkett
Proposals to have sheriff’s deputies patrol Manalapan and Ocean Ridge crept ahead in June while a similar offer in Boynton Beach screeched to a halt.
Boynton Beach commissioners directed city staff June 19 to not move forward
By Steve Plunkett
Roads in Point Manalapan will get their first new coat of asphalt since the 1960s.
Delray Beach-based Hardrives Inc. submitted the winning bid of $293,140 to resurface all the roads on the Point. Four other companies bid $325,000 t
Boynton Beach to hear PBSO proposal at 6:30 p.m. on June 5.
By Angie Francalancia
In the roughly 18 months since the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office pulled its parks deputies and moved its marine patrol headquarters from the Boynton Inlet, police
* Ocean Ridge will hear a PBSO proposal at 6 p.m. May 8 at Town Hall.
By Steve Plunkett
The proposal to switch police services to the county sheriff got Manalapan neighbors talking, but town commissioners fear much of what’s being said is wrong.
In a March story, “Sides agree to plan for crowded property line landscaping,” it may not have been clear that although Manalapan resident E. Peter McLean was asked to serve as an alternate on both the architectural and zoning commissions, he was not
By Steve Plunkett
The intrusion of unwelcome outsiders into Manalapan has only gotten worse in Vice Mayor Donald Brennan’s eyes.
“The beach is a war zone,” Brennan declared at the town’s March 27 commission meeting.
Brennan said an armed ro
Sophia Isaac (left), Chairman of the Library Volunteers, counts stacks of books to be purchased by Manalapan resident Jeff Solomon (center) as library volunteer Betty Howson awaits the final tally at Manalapan’s J. Turner Moore Memorial Library book
Construction crews install sections of a concrete pedestrian tunnel under A1A at the Manalapan residence of G. John Krediet on March 6. Closed for five days to all but emergency vehicles and local traffic, the road reopened March 9. Kurtis Boggs/The
