The Coastal Star won seven first-place awards and 15 overall at the Florida Press Association award ceremony held June 5. Staff photo
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The Coastal Star received 15 awards June 5 from the Florida Press Association for coverage it provid
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The Coastal Star was honored by the Florida Press Club with 17 overall awards, including five first-place honors, announced Jan. 31 during a ceremony in West Palm Beach. Staff photo/The Coastal Star
By Henry Fitzgerald
The Coastal Star won 17 awards
One of my favorite sections of the paper is philanthropy.
It’s not just pictures of happy, smiling people — although many of those photographed are indeed happy, smiling and looking good.
The section is consequential because it keeps tabs on massive
WELLINGTON — Charles Andrew Elmore, a reporter at the Palm Beach Post for 30-plus years and more recently a freelancer for The Coastal Star, died Oct. 30 at his home in Wellington, less than three months after diagnosis with metastatic colon cancer.
The Coastal Star has moved to our new office on A1A, 4600 N. Ocean Blvd., Suite 102, Boynton Beach, FL 33435. The entrance is to the right, at the building's north end.
A couple of months ago, I was bemoaning the fact that we were going to have to mo
Related: The Coastal Star captures top honors — nine times — in annual competition
Here at The Coastal Star, we think a byline says a lot.
If you’re not familiar with newspaper lingo, a byline is the name at the top of a story telling you who wrote
By Henry Fitzgerald
The Coastal Star won nine first-place awards at the recent Florida Press Association ceremony, including the top award for general excellence at the highest level — Division A — for weekly and monthly newspapers with circulations
We are delighted to share some good news about the future of The Coastal Star.
We’re welcoming Harvey Oyer III as a shareholder in the ownership of our publishing company. Our newspaper has been locally owned and operated since we published our first
Riptides at the beach. Strong currents in the inlet. Distractions on State Road A1A.
And, oh yeah, hurricane season has arrived. Can’t you feel them circling, honey?
Be careful out there.
Since A1A is now officially the Jimmy Buffett Memorial Highway
Beginning with its May 2025 edition, The Coastal Star is converting all of its delivery to single-family homes, from newspapers in plastic bags thrown in driveways to U.S. Postal Service delivery to mailboxes.
If you live in one of these homes, plea
The Coastal Star is converting all of its delivery to single-family homes, going from newspapers in plastic bags thrown in driveways to having U.S. Postal Service delivery in mailboxes.
We are doing this to improve service to our readers and adverti
Did you ever think you really knew something, something vitally important? Only to find out the things you thought you knew were not only out of date, but also bordered on dead wrong?
I took a basic lifesaving class when I was in college and thought
By Henry Fitzgerald
Writers for The Coastal Star won awards announced in January in the 2023-24 Florida Press Club Excellence in Journalism Competition.
Jane Musgrave received a first-place award in environmental reporting for her story, Sargassum,
Editor’s note: No one can say our readers aren’t creative, as can be seen in this double tribute to The Coastal Star and retired Editor Mary Kate Leming. It’s to be read all the way across, top to bottom.— Bob Schwartz
Delray Beach
FROM LEFT: The Coastal Star reporter Rich Pollack, Advertising Director Chris Bellard (one of the paper’s founders), Woodward and Editor Larry Barszewski. Photo provided by Palm Beach County
The Palm Beach County Commission recognized The Coastal Sta
The Palm Beach County Commission recognized The Coastal Star’s 16 years of publication with a proclamation. Commissioner Marci Woodward, whose district includes the paper’s entire circulation area, sponsored the proclamation honoring the paper, whic
There’s a phrase I’ve been desiring to say for several years. Finally, I think I can.
I’m retired. Yep. There I said it.
As of Jan. 1, I turned the editorial reins of this newspaper over to the talented and competent people my husband and I have recr
Sweet 16! The Coastal Star is growing up. …
Sixteen years ago — November 2008 — our first edition was delivered to homes and condos in the South County coastal area stretching from Manalapan through Delray Beach.
As other print publications stopped
Oops, ouch, mea culpa.
Mistakes happen. As hard as we try, there are times when our publication doesn’t catch a date-error, typo or misspelling. Sometimes an item simply needs more explanation to make sense to readers. And much to our chagrin, there
By Tao Woolfe
While celebrating its 15th year in business, The Coastal Star received 13 awards for excellence from the Florida Press Association, a nod to the paper’s reporters, photographers, and artists who are showing how the paper endures.
“These
