The vertical garden on the wall of Saks Fifth Avenue on Worth Avenue
in Palm Beach is a green form of public art. The garden is illuminated
by spotlights after dark. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
On a busy corner
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By Tim O’Meilia
Officials of south county coastal towns fear that signing on to a regional beach management plan now in the works would cost their taxpayers money without guaranteeing any new sand on eroding beaches.
Several environmental g
Eleven former or current Boca Raton Regional Hospital physicians have been nominated for the Palm Beach County Medical Society’s Heroes in Medicine Awards and will be honored at the Society’s ninth annual luncheon, at the Kravis Center on May 9.
For
Gerardo Aponte, a ground maintenance worker for the town of Lantana, stops traffic on Ocean Avenue as a donated ponytail palm is moved from Hypoluxo Island to the Lantana Public Library. Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal Star
By Mary Thurwachter
A week
More than 500 guests attended the YMCA of South Palm Beach County’s 10th
Annual Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 9 at the Boca Raton Resort & Club to see keynote
speaker and daytime TV celebrity Regis Philbin. Pictured are Philbin (left) and
Mary Jo and R
By Paula Detwiller
As this year’s sea turtle nesting season winds down, biologists are encouraged by a continuing upward trend in the number of nests seen on Palm Beach County beaches.
“Based on preliminary data, 2011 will be another record-breaker
Mike Nevard, chairman of the South Palm Beach Planning and Zoning Board, and frequent bookmobile patron checks out the Bookmobile’s offerings. Photos by Jerry Lower
By Ron Hayes
The Palm Beach County Library System boasts 17 branches, from Boca Raton
Vinnie Laudicina, Lantana Police Department
fleet manager (left), and Simion Pavlov,
with one of the department’s
2006 Ford Crown Victorias. Photo by Tim Stepien
By Rich Pollack
For almost two decades, the police car you were likely to see in yo
