Ocean Ridge town commissioners continued to wrestle with how to pay for six “wish list” items that would cost $167,000 in next year’s budget.
Making all the wishes come true would mean dipping further into town reserves – up to $337,0
By Tim O’Meilia
Ocean Ridge town commissioners will consider giving town employees a 3 percent raise, buying two police cars, a tree-trimming bucket truck and an all-terrain beach vehicle, and replacing the town’s outdated computer system — all in n
A man that police allege is part of a "pillow case" gang from Lauderdale Lakes in Broward County was arrested on Coconut Lane in Ocean Ridge on the afternoon of July 9 after escaping from officers during an earlier apprehension.
By Tim O’Meilia
Ocean Ridge police will be patrolling the narrow streets of Briny Breezes, checking for unlocked doors and writing tickets for illegal parking at the beach for another three years.
The Briny Breezes Town Council unanimously app
Insets: Boca Raton Police Chief Dan Alexander (top) and Capt. Josh Mindick (below)
By Steve Plunkett
For their work in ejecting a squatter from a $2.5 million Golden Harbour mansion, Police Chief Dan Alexander and Capt. Jo
By Tim O’Meilia
Ocean Ridge police will see a handsome difference in their paychecks under a new two-year contract approved by the Town Commission May 6.
The nine officers and four sergeants will receive an immediate 3 percent pay increase, a
Gulf Stream Civic Association Board Member Dan Lounsbury presents a check for $15,000 to Gulf Stream Police Chief Gary Ward. The donation will be used to purchase three video systems and digital video recorders for police vehicles used by the Police
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami has begun an investigation of allegations by a Manalapan resident that the town’s Police Department engages in racial profiling.
Resident Kersen De Jong first filed a formal complaint with the Florida Department of
Gail Adams Aaskov, author of two books, also is a Realtor, property manager and a town commissioner.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Gail Adams Aaskov remembers getting the call that Sunday morning in February seven years ago.
On
More than 40 pets, mostly dogs, had their photographs and their owners’ contact information entered into a database during a Highland Beach Police Department pet registration event held earlier this month. The information and photographs will be kept
By Tim O’Meilia
More than two years after collective bargaining began, the seaside towns of Manalapan and South Palm Beach signed three-year agreements with their unionized police departments in January.
While similar in length and many other d
By Margie Plunkett
Ocean Ridge’s dispatchers have saved the town time and money by writing post-911 dispatcher certification training — a curriculum that was just approved by the Florida Department of Health.
Dispatch coordinator Jessica Simpson and di
By Tim O’Meilia
A 20-year Manalapan resident has filed a complaint with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, claiming that the town’s police force engages in racial profiling.
In a Dec. 27 two-page letter to FDLE’s top official, Kersen de
By Margie Plunkett
Thanks to anonymous donations, the Ocean Ridge Police Department is getting a new police car that had previously been cut from the budget.
The commission in December accepted the donation of $30,000 from the Ocean Ridge Support G
The Lantana Police Department will be getting two 2013 vehicles this year — a Dodge Charger pursuit car and a Chevy Tahoe 1500.
Total cost for the vehicles is $47,971 — $21,401 for the Dodge, $26,570 for the Tahoe. Another $36,702 will be spent for pa
By Tim O’Meilia
For the second time in two years, the Manalapan Town Commission rejected bids from outside agencies to handle the town’s police dispatch services.
Both neighboring Ocean Ridge and Lantana submitted proposals well under the town’s $2
Park Ranger Gery Moran puts out barricades after sunset to close off a portion of the parking lot at the Boynton Inlet. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Margie Plunkett
Ocean Inlet Park has gotten a new tenant — and its parking lot is being closed
By Tim O’Meilia
If the South Palm Beach police bargaining unit signs a three-year contract in the next month or so, the five members will each get a $1,500 lump-sum bonus.
The town’s other six full-time employees will get zip.
At its Dec. 18 meeting
By Margie Plunkett
The Ocean Ridge Police Department will continue on the beat, after commissioners defeated a proposal to provide law enforcement services through the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.
The decision — made in a 4-1 vote — met
By Tim O’Meilia
The Manalapan Town Commission’s thoughts of farming out its police dispatch services has drawn interest from three local police departments.
Representatives of neighboring towns Lantana and Ocean Ridge and nearby Delray Beach a