Boynton Beach Fire Rescue held an inaugural Ocean Rescue and Dive Team training at Oceanfront Park, after the city officially merged its fire and ocean rescue services. The team moved from the city’s Parks and Recreation Department to the Fire Depart
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A king eider takes flight in the ocean off Boynton Beach Oceanfront Park; it’s the first king eider recorded in Palm Beach County and only the sixth in Florida. Photo provided by Kenny Miller
By Rich Pollack
Marcus Kelly should have been Christmas tr
The East Coast Sunrise Group (clockwise) includes Jett Frieder and his golden doodle Romeo, Rich Fitzgerald, Ian Levinson, Jane Bartley, Tony Fierro, Margie Richards and Robert Claveau. BELOW RIGHT: Shellman’ Ron Smaha and ‘Bucket Boy’ Brad Barnes.
Joshua Smith trapped this 6-foot-long iguana west of Lake Worth Beach. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Joe Capozzi
Air rifle in hand, the hunter spotted his target on a tree branch over the shoreline some 30 yards south of the Briny Breezes marina.
A morning walk on my birthday produced an unusual find along our shoreline. Mary Kate Leming / The Coastal Star
Gifts come in many forms. Some wrapped, some written, some plucked from the side of the roadway. Flowers, music, books, chocolate, wine ar
By Ron Hayes
BOYNTON BEACH — When I go, Eva Takacs often told her daughter and everyone else, I want to go with my swimsuit on, at the beach, in the water, on a lovely day.
On the morning of Dec. 31, her final wish was granted. She was 92.“The beach w
FAU student Chase Donaghy enjoyed an afternoon of surfing at Red Reef Park. Tao Woolfe/The Coastal Star
By Tao Woolfe
Boca Raton’s Red Reef Park is a busy place in the late afternoon as beachgoers scoop up kids, towels and folding chairs for the trek
Allison and Luke Van Natta photograph their 8-month-old daughter, Elizabeth, while a limestone boulder is deployed to the reef. The Van Nattas were in town from Wisconsin, visiting family members in Boca Raton. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
The snorke
One of the easy ways to access the Ocean Ridge Natural Area is by boat. The floating docks also provide walkers easy access to a water view.
Photo by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
At the intimate Ocean Ridge Natural Area,
Photo provided
The Institute for Regional Conservation, a nonprofit dedicated to the protection, restoration and long-term management of ecological diversity, held a coastal dune restoration event at Oceanfront Park in Boynton Beach as part of its Re
By Jane Smith
Parking at Oceanfront Park and Harvey Oyer Jr. Park will become more expensive in some cases starting Oct. 1.
At Oceanfront Park, four meter kiosks will be added and in operation from 7 a.m. until 9 p.m., Boynton Beach city commissione
By Jane Smith
Sand lost to 2017’s Hurricane Irma on the beaches of Ocean Ridge/Boynton Beach, south Delray Beach and north Boca Raton will be restored starting about Feb. 5.
The projects will be paid for using federal tax dollars authorized by Congr
Sixteen members of Cub Scout Pack 241 from Imagine-Chancellor, a Florida charter school in Boynton Beach, helped city staff in the planting of native, salt-tolerant sea grape trees at Oceanfront Park near the newly completed playground. The other tre
For one Saturday morning, dogs were allowed to play off leash on the beach at Oceanfront Park. ABOVE: Buddy, 4 months, runs from the incoming tide. BELOW: 3-year-old Duke (front) and Moose, 2, greet each other before running off. Photos by Rachel O’H
For one Saturday morning, dogs were allowed to play off leash on the beach at Oceanfront Park. The City of Boynton Beach and Boynton Beach Recreation and Parks Department sponsored the Dec. 15 Oceanfront Bark event. Duke, 3, and Moose, 2, greet one
By Jane Smith
Oceanfront Park will soon have upgraded playground equipment and a fitness area for adults after Boynton Beach city commissioners approved the $150,000 project in early October.
Kompan Inc., a Texas-based playground equipment maker, aw
Date: October 4, 2018
Contact: Lisa De La Rionda
Public Affairs
In addition to generating 200 kilowatts of power per hour for FPL, two large solar arrays provide shaded parking at Boynton Beach’s Oceanfront Park. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Lona O’Connor
If you happen to score one of the parking spaces under
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach is moving closer to allowing dogs on the beach at Oceanfront Park.
A majority of city commissioners agreed Aug. 21 to a trial event proposed by Wally Majors, recreation and parks director.
The event will be free and open t
