By Christine Davis Quiet please. Counting calories is voluntary. Taking part in the census count is mandatory. South Palm Beach’s ice cream social on Feb. 21 at Town Hall, offered an opportunity for free ice cream and cookies, free U.S. Census T-shi
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Don’t believe everything you read about how nobody reads anymore. Those good old-fashioned book lovers are still out there, hungry for intelligent novels, literate histories, provocative biographies, and eager to share their delight — o
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South Palm Beach Mayor Martin Millar isn’t sure whether to believe his own town clerk and said he has asked the Palm Beach County State Attorney to investigate whether a Town Council candidate filed for office after the deadline. It’
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We appreciate restaurants with scrumptious food, good service and a pleasing ambience. But if a dining spot comes with an ocean view, we’re really cooking! Fortunately for us, our islands are blessed with several such gems, where
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By Margie Plunkett
Lantana isn’t obligated to provide beach access to its neighbors, as far as the county’s concerned, and an increasingly obstinate Mayor David Stewart said he told the county that Lantana won’t allow it for anything less than a six
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By Tim O’ Meilia
The Mayfair House has come to the rescue of the Imperial House, a nearby six-story co-operative in South Palm Beach in danger of collapsing into the Atlantic Ocean during another angry nor’easter.
The Mayfair House, five buildings no
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By Tim O’Meilia
For the second time in three months, South Palm Beach Mayor Martin Millar’s attempt to remove three planning board members failed by an identical 3-2 vote.
The mayor called for the removal of planning board Chairman Mike Nevard and me
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By Margie Plunkett
Municipal elections are scheduled for Tuesday, March 9, and candidates for open seats face deadlines in the second week of February.
Election dates at seven municipalities in The Coastal Star’s coverage area run in synch with Palm
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By Tim O’Meilia
A petition drive to banish a high-rise hotel permanently from the South Palm Beach landscape was rejected by town officials Jan. 26.
More than 20 percent of the town’s 1,300 registered voters signed petitions to put three charter ques
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By Tim O’Meilia
SOUTH PALM BEACH — When the men went off to World War II, Lenore Rubinstein went to the ballpark. A reporter for Newsweek, her editors made her a sportswriter during the war.
But the male sportswriters refused to allow her in the p
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By Tim O’Meilia
Just over the dune at the Imperial House is a bungalow where industrialist, movie maker and aviator Howard Hughes once lived, or so the story goes.
Long-time residents of the six-story co-operative have heard the tales and spin the
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By Tim O’Meilia
With the Imperial House facing another winter without a seawall, the South Palm Beach Town Council voted on Dec. 15 to ask Palm Beach County to intervene in a dispute between the condominium and the town of Lantana over beach access.
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By Margie Plunkett
The Lantana Town Council dismissed as “insulting” a counterproposal from the Imperial House to pay $5,000 for beach access to fix its failing seawall, and said it would investigate if, under an agreement for emergency work, it cou
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By Christine Davis
The town of South Palm Beach may be small — a short stretch of about five-eighths-mile long, and a sliver less than a city block wide — but it stands gloriously high in its salute (and commitment) to art, music and education.
This
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By Tim O’Meilia
The shadow of a proposed 10-story hotel — rejected by a single vote by the South Palm Beach Town Council in October — continues to darken town politics.
Urged by one of the owners of the Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn, the council voted 3
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By Mary Thurwachter
Christmas came early in Lantana, where officials received word on Nov. 20 that the town’s post office will stay in business, after all. The branch at 201 West Ocean Avenue was taken off the list of 241 post offices facing possib
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By Tim O’Meilia
Thirty-three years ago Bonnie Fischer found the dream retirement home — an affordable first-floor oceanfront condominium apartment at Imperial House with a view of a beach several hundred feet wide.
In mid-November, an angry north wi
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By Margie Plunkett
Lantana council members took a hard stand against helping the neighboring Imperial House condominium building at taxpayers’ expense and said it would charge $213,500 to allow the co-op to stage equipment to fix its rapidly deterio
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