By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach town commissioners last month gave tentative approval to a proposed revamping and streamlining of the way emergency calls are received and emergency vehicles dispatched.
If commissioners give formal approval t
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach town commissioners last month gave tentative approval to a proposed revamping and streamlining of the way emergency calls are received and emergency vehicles dispatched.
If commissioners give formal approval t
Boca Raton resident John Granath walks toward the 8th tee
at Red Reef Executive Golf Course.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Related Story: Golf courses struggle as the sports' popularity wanes
By Cheryl Blackerby
This is a story of two public go
By Steve Plunkett
The Lynn University student who played President Obama for a pre-debate rehearsal last fall, then traveled to the inauguration, is now a candidate for City Council.
“I‘ve always loved politics,” senior Eric Gooden (left)
By Steve Plunkett
One of the first things the Boca Raton City Council may consider when it returns from its summer break Aug. 26 is whether to offer health insurance and other benefits to same-sex partners of city employees.
Council member
By Steve Plunkett
Boca Raton property taxes will go up no more than 3.8 percent for the coming year and might come down.
City Council members unanimously approved City Manager Leif Ahnell’s recommendation July 9 to set the maximum rate at $3.
Boca Raton Beach and Park District commissioners unanimously approved a rollback tax rate for the upcoming year of .9676 per $1,000 of taxable property value, down from last year’s .9986.
This rate will bring a slight decrease in the bill fo
By Steve Plunkett
The city has bailed out the Boca Raton Children’s Museum with an emergency $127,000 grant.
The museum appealed to the city for help when it realized it was running out of money, Assistant City Manager Mike Woika said.
By Dan Moffett
Hardly anyone in Delray Beach thought the first test of the city’s new noise ordinance would come in the form of a Zen riddle.
But city commissioners found themselves trying to unravel a decibel mystery that seemed every bit a
Phoebe Wiener attended Girls Nation.
Photo provided
Phoebe Wiener of Highland Beach took two unforgettable trips, and chances are both will have a major influence on her future career path.
Wiener, 16, who will be a senior at Atlantic High
Rotary Club Downtown Boca Raton installed new officers to lead the organization
into its second year of community service. ‘This has been an extraordinary inaugural year
for this club,’ President Alan Kaye said. The inaugural year saw the club recei
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach town commissioners, after their first look at a proposed $11.7 million budget, voted to keep the proposed tax rate for the coming fiscal year at $3.95 per $1,000 of assessed value, the same as the current tax rate.
By Mary Thurwachter
To make sure the new Ocean Avenue bridge is operational by the end of November, the construction company charged with the job sought — and received — permission to work evenings until 11 p.m. through Oct. 31.
GLF Constru
By Steve Pike
When most people think about golf, they think about what they see on TV — primarily Tiger Woods and the PGA Tour. But neither Woods nor the Tour lives in the real world of the golf industry — an industry that includes struggling eq
Green turtles mate in the surf off Gulfstream Park.
Photo provided by Joan Lorne
By Cheryl Blackerby
Halfway into sea turtle nesting season, the research is coming in, and the numbers are both surprisingly good and unexpectedly grim.
Gre
Workers for Asplundh Tree Expert Co. use a bucket truck to safely position themselves while removing tree branches near power lines along A1A in Ocean Ridge. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Tim O’Meilia
Most coastal residents won’t have to flee
Lindsey Gasparini (left), one of the owners of The Wine Wave, talks wine with David Spitzer, former owner
of the space, previously known as Old Vines, and Delray Beach residents
Eric Gebhard and Michele Palenscar.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Inset
By Cheryl Blackerby
More than 100 people looking for long-term solutions for Palm Beach County’s storm-battered beaches crowded into the Boca Raton Resort and Club’s Valencia ballroom June 15 for the second meeting of Protect Our Beaches.
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The first inter-club team competition, with teams from The Ocean Club, The Seagate,
Rainberry Bay and the host Delray Beach Club, took place June 1-2.
The Ocean Club team of (from left) Trisha McKinney, Augusto Lopez-Torres, Bob Banting,
Mike McKinn
The opening of this exhibition of photographs of the Edmonds, Mitchell, Quine and Spells families
served as a reunion of sorts. ABOVE: Susan and Mark Reingold.
Photos provided by Corby Kaye’s Studio
BELOW: Michiko Kurisu pictured with her mother,
Eighth-grader Jack Young gets a hug from his father, Board of Trustees President Gregory Young,
during the 75th graduation ceremony at Gulf Stream School. Others in the photo include (front row)
Paolo Urso, Ryan de Haseth, Quinn Fender, Kaleb Ferna