By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach town commissioners have agreed to hire an outside law firm to represent the town in negotiations and other matters should a fledgling effort by non-police employees to form a union come to fruition.
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By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach residents will see their municipal tax rate drop for a second consecutive year, after town officials gave tentative approval to a change in the operating rate from $3.50 per $1,000 of taxable value to about $3.28 per
By Rich Pollack
After months of complaints from a handful of residents who say town codes are not being properly enforced, frustrated Highland Beach town commissioners agreed in July to revamp the code inspection process and hire a full-time code
The proposed site plan for the revamped Plaza del Mar.
The proposed facade of the new anchor grocery.
Watch a video walk-through at www.thecoastalstar.com.
Renderings and video provided by Cuhaci & Peterson
By Dan Moffett
Manalapan commissioners g
By Dan Moffett
A strong economic tailwind is assisting Manalapan commissioners as they begin a series of budget workshops.
Property values in the town continue to climb — up 9.9 percent over last year, nearly 3 percent above the Palm Beach Coun
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge commissioners are preparing to take a close look at the town’s storm-water drainage issues, but there are two schools of thought about how extensive that examination should be.
Commissioner James Bonfiglio wants a dee
By Dan Moffett
Gulf Stream commissioners are scrambling to squeeze costs out of their troubled underground utilities project and accelerate a construction schedule that threatens to drag on for at least another two years.
Mayor Scott Morgan sai
By Dan Moffett
Publix Super Markets and Manalapan are in the final stages of negotiations that appear likely to bring a store to the town’s Plaza del Mar shopping center by 2018.
“It looks like there’s a 95 percent chance that this will happen,
By Dan Moffett
Faced with a staggering cost increase and continued delays, Gulf Stream commissioners are scrambling to get their much-troubled and long-awaited underground utilities project back on track.
Danny Brannon, Gulf Stream’s engineerin
By Dan Moffett
A positive report from Commissioner Clark Appleby has given the Manalapan Town Commission reason to take the next steps in exploring a water utility deal with Boynton Beach.
Appleby, a financial adviser by trade, studied the pote
Correction
A story in the April Coastal Star misstated the reason the town of Ocean Ridge paid $50,000 in legal fees to Commissioner Richard Lucibella’s attorney. The payment was reimbursement for Lucibella’s legal defense of a failed recall effo
These candidates are competing for a three-year term on the Ocean Ridge Town Commission.
RESULTS (unofficial):
Allison: 44.44% | 356 votes
Coz: 55.56% | 445 votes
Lynn Allison (incumbent)
Age: Did not disclose
Education: Bachelor
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach town commissioners unanimously passed a package of five local ordinances at their March 1 meeting, with several designed to keep the town from looking unsightly during construction.
“Most of these ordinances have
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge commissioners didn’t have to look far to find the successor for retiring Town Attorney Ken Spillias. They realized the right man for the job was already working in Town Hall.
Glen Torcivia, who has served as the t
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge commissioners and developer William Swaim have moved a step closer to clashing in court over access to the mangrove lagoon behind Town Hall.
For months, Swaim has been trying to persuade the Town Commission to all
Tom and Mary Thornton laugh as they are presented with gifts at the Dec. 15 Manalapan Town Commission
meeting by Mayor David Cheifetz and Town Manager Linda Stumpf. Commissioners passed a resolution
honoring Tom Thornton, a former commissioner, for
By Dan Moffett
An engineering misstep will force Manalapan to keep weight restrictions on its Audubon Causeway bridge for a couple of months longer than expected while workers replace the aging span.
Commissioner Peter Isaac said when engineer
By Rich Pollack
Yoga instructors and others teaching classes at the Highland Beach Pubic Library will now be designated as independent contractors and required to pay a small monthly fee to use the facility.
Under a new policy approved at the
By Rich Pollack
Saying they are pleased with the positive changes they’re seeing, Highland Beach commissioners have abandoned efforts to bring in a private firm to manage library operations.
Commissioners in August had agreed to invite represe
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge Mayor Geoff Pugh may want to make a promenade out of Old Ocean Boulevard but so far he’s only created a promenade for skeptics leading to the microphone in Town Hall chambers.
A dozen residents took turns expressing t
