By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach town officials have pushed the hold button on plans to change the way 911 calls are handled — at least until Delray Beach decides whether or not to have Palm Beach County take over that city’s fire and rescue servic
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By Steve Plunkett
A months-long campaign of phone calls, emails and other gentle arm-twisting yielded a last-minute budget success for the Downtown Library: $60,000 for a new program services position.
Deputy Mayor Susan Haynie proposed addin
By Steve Plunkett
Work on a fifth “view window” along State Road A1A will soon give landlubbers — especially those in the Yacht & Racquet Club of Boca Raton — a better look at the Atlantic.
The Yacht & Racquet condo association will trim sea
By Steve Plunkett
The city’s workers are now protected against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity or expression, just like their counterparts in Palm Beach County government, the town of Palm Beach and Wal-Mart stores
By Ron Hayes
Sept. 10 was a very good day for Rand Hoch.
That morning, the Palm Beach County Commission voted unanimously to reimburse county employees for the federal tax they pay when adding an unmarried partner to the county health plan. T
Attention, developers: If you can build a “signature restaurant” with “significant public space” at the former Wildflower site, the city wants your plans.
City officials issued a “request for lease proposals” Sept. 13 for the 2.3 acres that o
A historic marker provided by Robert Hudson Neff and his family will document
the opening of the Boynton Inlet, seen here after sand had temporarily filled it in.
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BELOW: Harvey Oyer III (left) confers with Robert Hudson Neff during a
St. Paul’s Day School in Delray Beach marks its 50th anniversary on Oct. 27.
During that half-century, it has had only two directors.
Photo contributed
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Today, they are engineers, lawyers and professionals.
Back in their youth, d
By Ron Hayes
Five hundred years ago, a Spanish explorer named Juan Ponce de Leon set sail from Puerto Rico, in search of new lands to conquer.
On April 2, 1513, he discovered what appeared to be an island, and named it Florida.
It wasn’
The construction site in Highland Beach.
Cheryl Blackerby/The Coastal Star
By Cheryl Blackerby
In March 2003, workers were digging a trench for underground utility pipes at the Sea Frolic hotel in Highland Beach when they came across something
Marilynn Wick and her daughter, Kim, are preparing to open The Wick Theatre & Costume Museum
in the former Caldwell Theatre building on Federal Highway in Boca Raton.
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By Dale King
When the former Caldwell Theatre c
By Cheryl Blackerby
Boca Raton Beach and Park District commissioners are willing to pay a greater share of the city’s beach renourishment bills. But before they start writing bigger checks, they’d like to start playing a bigger role in shaping t
By Steve Plunkett
Ground hasn’t been broken yet, but the long-awaited Interstate 95 interchange on Spanish River Boulevard already has attracted development that someday will generate 13,300 trips per day.
Boca Raton City Council members ap
Boca Raton will defer to new Mizner Park tenant Lord & Taylor and to Black Friday shoppers and light its holiday tree the day before Thanksgiving instead of the day after.
In June, City Council members, sitting as the Community Redevelopment
By Steve Plunkett
Forgive the city manager if he sounds almost giddy over Boca Raton’s finances.
“If you live in neighboring Delray — we hear lots of great things and Delray’s a great place — but you’ll pay twice as much in city property taxe
Stella Page, 7, poses for photographer Oona Cruger at Boca Raton Resort & Club
on Aug. 23. Stella is a Boca resident and a student at St. Andrew’s School.
French designer Laure Nell used the resort as background location for the shooting
of her Spr
Florida Power & Light Co. will be installing 40 new concrete utility poles along a stretch of State Road A1A, and that could mean temporary service interruptions for some customers and periodic lane closures affecting motorists.
The poles, s
By Steve Plunkett
Domestic partners of city workers may receive even better benefits than their counterparts in Wellington.
City Attorney Diana Grub Frieser reported Aug. 26 on how City Council members could add sexual orientation and gender
Greg Rice and his wife, Lori Miller, take a break during activities at Lake Worth’s July Fourth celebration.
Photo by Annamarie Hunt
Nice early birthday present for Boca-born Ariana Grande. Two weeks before she turned 20, her new song The Way, w
By Dan Moffett
A night at the movies is getting to be a tough ticket in Delray Beach as the local movie houses go through some major changes.
Last spring, the operators of the Plaza at Delray mall on the corner of Federal Highway and Linton
