Eddie Ventrice — at home with his wife, Elyse, and golden retriever, Bronx — works with the George Snow Scholarship Fund and Men Giving Back. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Faran Fagen
Eddie Ventrice was thrilled to make it through Boca’s Ballroom B
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By Steve Plunkett
Richard Jones will leave his job as Ocean Ridge’s police chief by May 11 to take the same position in nearby Gulf Stream.Gulf Stream town commission
By Steve Plunkett
Town commissioners postponed for a second time their vote on Gulf Stream School’s request to boost its enrollment, but they hope to turn the delay into a teaching moment on civic involvement.
Dr. Gray Smith, head of the school, won p
My family purchased a 100-by-100-foot lot in Ocean Ridge in 1956, and 10 years later built our house at 16 Tropical Drive. Our extended family visited our home many, many times in 60 years. As time passed, and families grew and changed, I finally mad
Related story: Along the Coast: Gulf Stream hires away Ocean Ridge’s police chief
By Joe Capozzi
Less than two weeks before an election that could shift the balance of power on the Town Commission, three top Ocean Ridge officials are on their way out
By John Pacenti
The Delray Beach City Commission voted last month to hand over the reins of Old School Square to the Downtown Development Authority, but not before some additional drama.
Vice Mayor Adam Frankel complained that at a January DDA meeting
The Eastern spotted skunk rescued at Gumbo Limbo draws a crowd including (l-r) Francesca Manzia, executive director of Lipu Wildlife Recovery Center in Rome, veterinary student Audrey Saint-Marc, and freelance journalist and photographer Irene Alison
A 7-foot-tall navigation buoy from Dry Tortugas National Park sat on the beach in Manalapan since the middle of January before it was removed Feb. 24. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Larry Barszewski
Cost estimates on installing a townwide sewer syst
By Steve Plunkett
St. Joseph’s Episcopal School has lost its bid for an injunction to allow it to continue operating on the grounds of St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church in Boynton Beach while a lawsuit between the parties is resolved.
The school claims it
By Steve Plunkett
“Martin O’Boyle is a Gulf Stream resident who has long disliked town leadership.”
So begins an opinion by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals affirming a U.S. District Court ruling in Gulf Stream’s favor that the town did not violate t
By Joe Capozzi
The town’s 27 condominiums will get reminders from town officials that Airbnbs, Vrbos and other short-term rentals are not allowed in South Palm Beach.
Unlike many other Florida municipalities, including nearby Lake Worth Beach, South
The new library’s teen area. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
A good half-hour before the 11 a.m. grand opening ceremony for the newer, bigger, far more beautiful Lantana Public Library, its public was already finding seats under
By Joe Capozzi
Three candidates seeking two seats on the Ocean Ridge Town Commission pleaded their cases for election to nearly 100 voters at a candidates forum Feb. 9 at Town Hall.
Mayor Susan Hurlburt, Commissioner Martin Wiescholek and challenger
Dr. Peter Bonutti of Manalapan in his home office with his father, Karl Bonutti, 95, and sons Michael, 8, and Marc, 17. The
family’s two Dobermans are Sam (left) and Sarge. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Dr. Peter Bonutti was well into his career as an
Michael and Clara Klein were the first two visitors to Boca Raton’s newest waterfront park, walking by just as a park ranger unlocked the pedestrians-only gate at Ocean Strand Park during its ‘soft opening’ Feb. 27. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
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ABOVE: Former William Taft High classmates from a variety of years in the 1950s and ‘60s gathered last month for a reunion at Pavilion Grille. About 180 attended, some of whom now live in Palm Beach County. INSET BELOW: A ball cap with science class
By Mary Hladky
The city has received engineering firm reports on the first group of buildings required to undergo safety inspections under an ordinance enacted two months after the 2021 collapse of a Surfside condominium.
The 14 buildings, all located
By Rich Pollack
Engineers and others from the Florida Department of Transportation came to Highland Beach in late August to field questions about a repaving project on State Road A1A that is expected to cause major traffic disruptions from spring 202
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach residents will have a chance to meet the candidates running for Town Commission during a March 7 forum hosted by the League of Women Voters of Palm Beach County.
Set for 6 to 8 p.m. at the town’s public library, the foru
By Mary Hladky
Parking meters will not be installed in the Brightline station garage and nearby surface parking, at least for now.
City Council members on Feb. 14 rebuffed a city staff recommendation to install meters intended to prevent Brightline pa
