Mary Csar is moving to a Jacksonville historic district, closer to her kids. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Mary Hladky
Mary Csar has been involved in preserving Boca Raton’s history almost from the moment she moved to the city in 1978.
She joined
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Greg Dunham is retiring after nearly nine years as town manager, effective Jan. 30. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Steve Plunkett
Gulf Stream Town Manager Greg Dunham is calling it quits after almost nine years at the helm of town government.
“This
Friends, colleagues and community leaders paid tribute to Mary Csar, the longtime face of the Boca Raton Historical Society/The Schmidt Boca Raton History Museum, during an evening that also marked the opening of the Cloister Inn Museum, an exhibit c
After serving St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church in Boynton Beach for more than two decades, Father Marty Zlatic has donned his pilgrimage jacket to walk a different path, with the Lord and his wife, Dee, by his side.
On Sept. 3, an official announcement
By Mary Hladky
In a move orchestrated by Mayor Scott Singer, longtime City Attorney Diana Grub Frieser will be out of her job on Oct. 31, 10 months before her desired retirement date.
She will be paid for those months she now won’t be working, recei
By Mary Hladky
Assistant City Manager Chrissy Gibson is now one of Boca Raton’s two deputy managers.
And the city’s longtime financial services manager, Linda Davidson, will retire on Aug. 31 after 41 years with the city.
The city has hired Jim Zerv
Longtime Boca Raton City Manager Leif Ahnell, who retired Dec. 31, shares a light moment with his deputy and successor George Brown during an event for city staff. Photo provided
By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton has profoundly changed over the last 24 years
By Mary Hladky
It’s now official: George Brown will become city manager on Jan. 1, taking the reins from Leif Ahnell, who has held that position for 24 years.
City Council members did not comment on the transition when they unanimously approved Brown
During a break in the Sept. 9 meeting, Rita Taylor leans on the dais to chat with a few of the Gulf Stream commissioners about her retirement plans. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Town clerk’s retirement after decades of service brings outpouring of gr
By Mary Hladky
With looming retirements, Boca Raton is on the verge of a wholesale change in its top leadership.
Deputy City Manager Mike Woika will end his 22-year career with the city this summer. Deputy City Manager George Brown, a 45-year city emp
By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton City Manager Leif Ahnell plans to stay in his job until 2024.
Ahnell, who has held the city’s top position for 22 years after joining the city staff nine years earlier, had been expected to retire in 2022. But the City Counci
Police Chief Hal Hutchins plans to retire in 2022, and Lt. Richard Jones will take over. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge commissioners have endorsed a succession plan that calls for police Lt. Richard Jones to take over as c
Shaw with board President Gary Peters in 2006. Photo provided
Eric Shaw, Boca Helping Hands’ longest-serving board member, stepped down after 18 years of service, 14 as vice president. Shaw, described by staffers as ‘the perfect gentleman,’ personifi
By Mary Hladky
Police Chief Dan Alexander is retiring effective Dec. 1 from the department he has led for the past 13 years and will move into the newly created position of director of school police for the Palm Beach County school district.Alexander
By Dan Moffett
South Palm Beach Police Chief Carl Webb has decided to retire from his position effective immediately, ending a 30-year career with the town.
Webb, 64, went on a medical leave of absence in January, and officials said he chose to tak
William Thrasher and his wife, Phyllis, laugh at the oversized key Gulf Stream police presented him
at his retirement party. The Thrashers bought a Winnebago to tour parks across the country and lost the keys.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Steve Pl
By Dan Moffett
Town Attorney Ken Spillias retired in March after 17 years on the job in Ocean Ridge and 41 years practicing law.
“I’ve seen good government and I’ve seen very bad government,” Spillias told the commission. “I want you to know t
First Officer Elizabeth Ackerly poses for a photograph in the jet engine of her American Airlines 767. Ackerly retired after 28 years with the airline. Her final flight from Paris arrived in Miami, where she was greeted by colleagues, friends an
Joe Gillie, outgoing president of Old School Square in Delray,
poses with a mannequin wearing a dress by Delray Beach designer Amanda Perna.
Perna, 28, returned to Season 14 of Project Runway.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Kay Brady, Joe Gillie and S
By Thom Smith
After 15 years, Ervin Duggan has said farewell to Palm Beach and to his legacy, the Society of the Four Arts. His successor, David W. Breneman, a professor in economics of education and public policy at the University of Virginia, has bi
