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The Blue Anchor is a popular spot for St. Patrick’s Day, because you can combine access to food, drink and the parade all in one location. File photo by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

By Jan Norris

That annual beer-drinking festival arrives this month

Mike and Deidre Neal (l-r) and their neighbors, Nick, Katherine and Mazie Malinoski, greet Mrs. Claus. Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

The coronavirus changed how municipalities celebrated the holidays, with the traditional large public gath

Arthur Metzger is surrounded by family and friends on a parade through Mizner Park ahead of his 99th birthday. The march, which urged residents and politicians to make the planet better, was Feb. 29, before the coronavirus halted such gatherings. Pho

Presley Elizabeth, 3, and her owner, Rebecca Shelton, won for Best Look-a-Like outfits. The event was run and sponsored by Dezzy’s Second Chance Animal Rescue. Photos by Rachel O’Hara/The Coastal Star

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Judges (l-r) Miranda Christian o

Briny celebrates 60 years: Parade honors longtime residents and social clubs that help to define the community

Dozens of decorated golf carts parade in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the year when trailer campers gathered up their money and

Beads, bands and beer
just part of the fabric
of annual event

More than 100,000 Floridians and snowbirds gathered March 17 along Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach to celebrate the city’s 50th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade. The current parade organize

ABOVE: Parade founder Maury Power and Dennis Gallagher with Porkchop the piglet, 1988

LEFT: Colleen Rolfes Beckner and ‘Papa’ Joe Rose march in 1978. Photos courtesy of Delray Beach Historical Society

BELOW: Kevin and Mary McCarty ride in the parade,

By Christine Davis

A Lynn University College of Business and Management class taught by Professor Matteo Peroni created a campaign to boost awareness and fundraising efforts for the 50th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Delray Beach to be held Marc

The former site of the Wildflower restaurant was a popular viewing location for the 41st annual Holiday Boat Parade.  With the park recently open to the public, hundreds of residents jammed the area, which provided some of the most intimate views. Ti

Delray Beach city commissioners approved spending nearly $5,000 for the city’s share of the annual Boynton Beach-Delray Beach boat parade on Dec. 9.
    But they did not want the money coming from the city manager’s discretionary fund. They s

By Jane Smith

The Holiday Boat Parade will travel down the Intracoastal Waterway on Dec. 11 through Boynton Beach and Delray Beach for the 44th year, but the Delray Beach part almost didn’t happen.
The Delray Beach city manager, who just started in Jan

Unity School Jazz Band performs
Delray Beach Tree lighting — Dec.  4

Now in its 15th year, the Unity School Jazz Band, under the direction of Bethany Gerena, performed during the holiday festivities by playing Deckin’ the Halls, Jingle Bell Rock and G

Roland Wood carries on a tradition he started in 1950 as a 13-year-old Boy Scout, when he was the first person over the then-new bridge at its dedication ceremony. Wood also was the last person over that same bridge when it closed in March 2012. Car

Photography by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

Lake Worth residents Anne Heggli (right) and Courtney Ricks take part in a Halloween volleyball game

on the beach Oct. 26 at Anchor Park in Delray Beach. 

Participants portray Native Americans Oct. 19 dur

By Tim Pallesen

    Get out the green confetti but not the green beer — the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade is a go for next year without alcohol.
    Delray Beach commissioners have approved the March 15 event with a $31,273 cost for the promoter.

Revelers enjoy their beer during this year’s St. Patrick’s Day parade in Delray Beach. The city wants to ban alcohol from next year’s parade. Local businesses want to limit events such as the parade that closes Atlantic Avenue to traffic. Tim Stepien

More than 60 animals — mostly dogs, but one cat — came out and strutted their stuff at the 12th Annual Easter Bonnet Pet Parade on March 30 in Delray Beach.
They competed in categories such as most frou-frou, traditional, original, tropical, tiniest

The 45th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Delray Beach held on March 16 hosted firefighters from across the state, country and the world. Organizers estimated a crowd of over 100,000 watched from the sides of the 14-block parade route on Atlantic A