Manalapan leads South County with 10.51% increase
By Mary Hladky
For the seventh year in a row, the taxable value of Palm Beach County properties has surged to a new high.
After making up the losses last year from the Great Recession, countywide t
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By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
Palm Beach County and the city of West Palm Beach and have proclaimed the third week in May as Native Plant Week. To celebrate, the Palm Beach County Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society has helped organize a full s
By Dan Moffett
South Palm Beach Mayor Bonnie Fischer says she met with county environmental officials in March and left convinced they are committed to going ahead with the town’s controversial beach stabilization project.
“The county is definitely m
By Dan Moffett
After 12 years of planning, lobbying and debate, South Palm Beach Town Council members say they’re now having second thoughts about staying in a county project to install concrete groins in the hope of stabilizing the town’s eroding be
By Steve Plunkett
The election to replace term-limited County Commissioner Steven Abrams isn’t until November, but already the race threatens to overshadow the March vote for two Boca Raton City Council seats.
Council member Robert Weinroth, who open
By Dan Moffett
Manalapan town commissioners and Palm Beach County environmental managers got to meet face-to-face and discuss the controversial beach groin project that threatens to provoke border wars with neighboring communities.
Manalapan Mayor Ke
By Rich Pollack
Crime in South Palm Beach County’s five coastal communities remained low during the first half of 2017, dropping more than 20 percent from the same time last year, according to statistics released late last month from the Florida
A sign mounted on the inlet bridge announces that jumping and diving are prohibited. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge and Palm Beach County officials have reached an agreement on security changes that will allow the county
By Dan Moffett
Manalapan may have found a new bargaining chip to persuade Palm Beach County officials to forget about installing groins on beaches north of the town.
It’s the sand transfer plant at the Boynton Beach Inlet.
Town Attorney
By Dan Moffett
Manalapan commissioners hope to voice their objections to the South Palm Beach groin project during a scheduled meeting with county officials on Oct. 24.
The commissioners expect the project’s managers to attend the town’s regula
By Steve Plunkett
The town is on record that it still wants no part of paying for the county’s Inspector General Office.
In a resolution passed Aug. 11, Gulf Stream commissioners said they do not support contributing town tax dollars to pay for
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
Planning an event at a county beach?
Leave the balloons behind; as of Sept. 1, they’re banned at 11 Palm Beach County-operated beachfront parks.
“I think anytime we can limit the amount of plastics, including balloons, is a good thing,” sa
Paddling the habitats of Lake Worth Lagoon
Mangrove islands and breakwaters of the Snook Islands Natural Area —
islands built by Palm Beach County to improve water quality and wildlife habitat.
Lake Worth Municipal Golf Course is at left.
Photo by Pa
By Dan Moffett
The six-year legal dispute between Palm Beach County and its municipalities over paying for an inspector general’s office appears to be officially over. In March, the county agreed to return $223,558 to 23 towns and cities that
Marcela Carneiro Millett, of Palm Beach County Human Services, speaks with a homeless man
at The Caring Kitchen in Delray Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
One woman at The Caring Kitchen said she was to blame for her homelessn
By Dan Moffett
The 4th District Court of Appeal has ruled that Palm Beach County cities and towns don’t have to pay the county’s bill for running an inspector general’s office — even though their voters approved it.
The unanimous ruling by a th
Related Story: Task Force offers recommendations
By Jane Smith
The three largest cities in southern Palm Beach County are taking different paths to regulate sober homes, following the November release of a revised statement by two federal de
Thanksgiving. A single word that combines two acts of grace: giving thanks and simply giving. Both actions have been top-of-mind as we head into November.
In this edition you will find stories of organizations and individuals who are working
By Stacey Singer
The 13 municipalities still suing to avoid paying fees for Palm Beach County’s Office of Inspector General made their case at the 4th District Court of Appeal on Oct. 4, saying they don’t object to oversight by the independent ins
