In the first four months of 2021, deaths reached 723; in all of 2020, 637 died in the state. There’s not enough sea grass to support all of them
We love manatees in Florida.
We put them on license plates. We name our school mascots after them. We brag
By Jane Smith
When barrier island homeowner Michael Marco next appears before the Delray Beach Historic Preservation Board, he will have to convince the members that demolition — followed by reconstruction — is allowed on his historic house at 212 Se
Native plants and beautiful gazebos make for a perfect garden space at Pan’s Garden. Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
On Nov. 23, Pan’s Garden in Palm Beach is celebrating its 25th anniversary amid a change in its di
This classic Samuel Ogren Sr.-designed house on Northeast Seventh Avenue was destined for demolition to make room for three townhouses when architect and preservationist Roger Cope stepped in. The owner, Azure Development, told Cope, of Delray Beach,
This sprawling ficus tree in front of the home at 3400 Polo Drive is spurring a debate about tree preservation in Gulf Stream. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Steve Plunkett
Town commissioners have sent the architects back to their drawing boards to
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach is on its way to living up to its brand of being a safe haven for trees.
In early August, the Delray Beach City Commission unanimously approved an updated tree ordinance making preservation the No. 1 priority.
“If
By Jane Smith
The fate of the historic Boynton Beach High School, which seemed certain to be saved earlier this year, is unsettled again.
At the Aug. 17 budget meeting of the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency, city commissioners sitting as
Warren Adams at the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Lona O’Connor
Warren Adams will be the first to point out that he didn’t invent historic preservation in Boynton Beach. That honor belongs to a dedicated group of prese
Delray Beach city commissioners have given their blessing to plans that will split the historic oceanfront property that was the 1930s home of famed cartoonist Fontaine Fox.
City commissioners voted in February to advance developer Frank McKinney’s p
Maura and Bill Benjamin have enjoyed living in their historic Manapalan home for 33 years. Photo provided
By Christine Davis
Bill and Maura Benjamin have happily downsized from their longtime historic home, Casa Alva at 1300 Lands End Road in Mana
By Rich Pollack
Two women who have been instrumental in creating historical archives in Boynton Beach and Delray Beach are, or soon will be ... well, history themselves.
DeVries
Last month, Boynton Beach’s historical archivist Janet DeVrie
Clayton Peart, Robert Hickok and Marissa Garone-Blatz
attended the event. The donations and silent-auction bids garnered more than $1,000 to benefit the Delray Beach Preservation Trust.
The construction of a one-story residence on the Fontaine Fox House property was conditionally granted a certificate of appropriateness by Delray Beach’s Historic Preservation Board in July.
The residence at 605 Andrews Ave., which is west of the
