Hailey Clark, a marine biology student at Florida Atlantic University and a Coastal Stewards volunteer, releases the group’s last turtle patient into the ocean on July 10. The patient is Sparrow, a green sea turtle. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
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Hailey Clark, a marine biology student at Florida Atlantic University and a volunteer for the Coastal Stewards, releases Sparrow, a green sea turtle, into the ocean on July 10. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Steve Plunkett
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Sadie Hawkins, a hawksbill turtle being treated at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in this June 13 photo, was moved to Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach after the nonprofit Coastal Stewards closed Gumbo Limbo’s sea turtle rehab unit. Of the 13 tu
UPDATE: Coastal Stewards' president resigns after reducing nonprofit's staff; rehab center vet and coordinator have accepted jobs elsewhere
Visitors to the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton on Friday could only view patients in the nature cent
Hank Davis of Delray Beach rescued this green turtle while fishing along the beach in Briny Breezes. Photo provided
By Larry Keller
As if a green turtle dubbed Brontosaurus didn’t have enough obstacles to reaching old age — ingestion of and entanglem
