Ocean Ridge resident Digby Bridges will become the newest member of the United States Croquet Hall of Fame this month. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Digby Bridges has been playing croquet since he was 16 and still enjoys the game.
“It is a thinkin
It’s that time of year again, when full and new moon phases combine with the moon’s position to give us higher than usual tides and flooding.
Oct. 6: Driving down Brooks Lane in Delray Beach was a challenge.
Oct. 6: A school of mullet reaches grass
King tides create more than 8 inches of water at the base of Clara Caldwell’s driveway on Oct. 20. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Dan Moffett
The Inlet Cay community in Ocean Ridge started off in the late 1960s as a collaboration between enginee
By Steve Plunkett
Former Ocean Ridge Vice Mayor Richard Lucibella’s felony trial will not start before next year.
His defense attorney, Marc Shiner, and Assistant State Attorney Danielle Grundt both agreed this month to the postponement — the trial
The Coastal Star will be photographing the King Tides in October/November and sharing photographs from our coastal communities.
As you see flooding in your neighborhood, we hope you'll share your photos as well.
Please send to news@thecoastalstar.com
By Ron Hayes
Hurricane Irma spared Palm Beach County the worst it could do, and the county’s sea turtle nests seem to have been spared its worst as well.
“In general, the beach was in better shape than we expected,” said Kirt Rusenko, the marin
By Dan Moffett
Those rusted and ragged shade sails lining the parking lot at Boynton Beach Oceanfront Park are soon to give way to aluminum solar canopies as part of Florida Power & Light’s growing campaign to promote clean energy across the stat
By Steve Plunkett
Former Ocean Ridge Vice Mayor Richard Lucibella will sue the town and at least one of the officers who arrested him in an October 2016 shooting incident at his home, one of his lawyers told a Palm Beach County circuit judge.
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By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge Police Chief Hal Hutchins estimates that somewhere between 10 to 20 percent of the town’s permanent residents ignored calls to evacuate the island during Hurricane Irma and rode out the storm in their homes.
That was mo
Ocean Ridge police officers block traffic into town at the Ocean Ave. Bridge on Sept. 9 in response to a county-wide curfew implemented in advance of Hurricane Irma. Delray Beach and South Palm Beach have implemented similar roadblocks. All municipal
By Dan Moffett
County parks and recreation officials have been trying for years to put together enough money to give a much-needed overhaul to Ocean Inlet Park Marina at the Boynton Inlet.
With a boost from the penny sales tax increase voter
Plans for license tag cameras still on hold
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge town commissioners have decided to add two patrol officers and a dispatcher to their Police Department to deal with the growing stream of beach visitors from across the brid
By Jane Smith, Dan Moffett and Rich Pollack
Coastal towns in south Palm Beach County are flush with cash thanks to their shares of the voter-approved penny sales tax increase that started in January.
The money began flowing into municipa
By Jane Smith
Animals are banned from the beach in Ocean Ridge, according to Town Manager Jamie Titcomb.
Even so, the town would consider a formal proposal from Boynton Beach to allow dogs on that city’s adjoining 960-foot-long beach.
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By Steve Plunkett
The barrier island-based Florida Coalition for Preservation wants Gulf Stream and its neighbors to budget money this summer to determine where to locate a new fire-rescue station and how much it would cost.
“It’s important for
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge Vice Mayor James Bonfiglio says he’s spent hours in recent weeks trying to figure out what went wrong with the town’s financial record-keeping last year.
He’s not happy about that. And he’s not happy that Town Mana
By Rich Pollack
Small coastal communities in South Palm Beach County continued to have few serious crimes in 2016, with most experiencing crime decreases last year, according to statistics released last month by the Florida Department of Law Enfo
By Steve Plunkett
Officer Nubia Plesnik, part of the police team that charged former Vice Mayor Richard Lucibella with resisting arrest last fall, has filed a lawsuit against him claiming battery and negligence.
Lucibella “committed a batter
May and early June have been a busy time for driving obstacles.
In Ocean Ridge there have been lane restrictions because of painting and repairs on both the Woolbright and Ocean Avenue bridges, combined with stop-and-start traffic caused by F
