I purchased the angel that sits atop our Christmas tree while on a trip to Mexico many years ago. She’s hammered tin with a painted face and poised to sing carols from a songbook clasped in her hands.
This year she’s going to take a break and sit on
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In between the National Hurricane Center’s every-three-hour updates, I grew anxious thinking what it would mean for our area to have the eye wall of a Category 4 or 5 Hurricane Irma blow directly up the I-95 corridor.
“If the eye passes east
By Noreen Marcus
A developer sued The Coastal Star alleging libel and then abruptly dropped the lawsuit a month later.
The suit filed Aug. 30 in Palm Beach Circuit Court by Hudson Holdings and its principal Steven Michael claimed the newspaper
With five years of publishing this local newspaper under my belt, my skin has grown a little thicker.
I still dread phone calls the Monday after we deliver since I worry we’ve made some error, or omitted some item or caused some reader distr
“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s
going to know whether you did it or not.”
— Oprah Winfrey
Who knows if Oprah really said this, or if one her writers provided these sage words, but in any case, I believe it’s true.
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If ever there were an adage that describes The Coastal Star, this is it. It really does take a village.
Those of us on the editorial side of The Coastal Star recently received 10 awards from the Florida Press Club for work in the categories of Light
The vultures are spiraling, the tides are high and the auto-transport trucks are blocking traffic on A1A. This can only mean one thing: “Season” has begun. Welcome back, snowbirds!
Thanks to you, dear readers, the signs of an improved economy are fil
Mary Kate Leming
By Mary Kate Leming, Editor
On the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Andrew’s shredding of Homestead and the Miami area, and seven years since Katrina’s flood waters devastated New Orleans, Tropical Storm Isaac breezed through our are
Mary Kate Leming, Editor
“Sweeping action may be gratifying and may create the aura of strong leadership, but its unintended consequences may lead to costs that are too high to bear.”
— Teresa Sullivan, reinstated University of Virginia president
