The Rev. D. Brian Horgan of St. Lucy Catholic Church and Steven Moss, rabbi to Temple Sinai of Palm Beach County in Delray Beach, united for a prayer vigil on Oct. 12 at St. Lucy in Highland Beach. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Janis Fontaine
When
The Palm Beach County Health Care District is hosting free ’Tai Ji Quan: Moving for Better Balance’ classes weekdays at the South County Civic Center in Delray Beach. Photo provided
By Jan Engoren
We’ve all heard about the commercial that shows a wom
Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue District Chief 42 William Stansbury has joined Delray Medical Center’s governing board.
Stansbury was a strike-team leader for the Holocaust survivor vaccine mission in 2021, and that year, he was a strike-team leader
Zev Bailey, 3, of Boca Raton, carries the sensory coral reef he made while taking part in the Discovery Series at the Sandoway Discovery Center in Delray Beach. Photo provided
By Faran Fagen
The first thing 3-year-old Zev Bailey of Boca Raton does wh
Debbie and Wally Majors of Delray Beach adopted Lily in 2018, when the poodle was about 10. Lily died in 2020. ’We knew that she had had a hard life, but we wanted to make her senior years the best we could,’ Debbie Majors said. Photo provided
By Ard
Construction of PopStroke in Delray Beach was in full swing in October. The 36-hole venue designed by Tiger Woods’ company is set to open the first week of November. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Brian Biggane
As PopStroke golf opens new facilities
Alan Zaremba holds a peacock bass he caught in a southern Palm Beach County canal. Photos by Steve Waters/The Coastal Star and provided
By Steve Waters
Although South Florida is renowned for its largemouth bass fishing, exotic fish such as peacock ba
The quartzite oversize kitchen island in Aegean teal has USB outlets, microwave and undercounter lighting. Wine fridge is in the butler’s pantry. BELOW RIGHT: The loggia offers Intracoastal views. Photos provided
This luxury townhouse in Ocean Ridge
Boca Raton’s Office of Sustainability is inviting residents to complete a sustainability survey, which is intended to get input that will guide the city’s sustainability initiatives over the next five years.
The survey allows residents to express the
St. Lucy Catholic Church will be hosting a prayer vigil for Israel on Oct. 12 at 6 p.m. All members of the community are welcome to attend the prayer vigil and reception immediately following.
Yvonne Odom with her granddaughter Coco Gauff, who holds her U.S. Open trophy during a visit home. BELOW RIGHT: Yvonne Odom, then Yvonne Lee, was the first Black student to attend Seacrest High (now Atlantic High), in 1961. Photos provided
By Brian B
Our Arts Season Preview offers a comprehensive look at cultural events across South Florida
ABOVE: Students (l-r) Angel Jean (University of South Florida), Dante Estevez, Austin Lois and Mason Lois (all from Florida Atlantic University) admire work
Commissioners seek ways around new law on personal finances
By Larry Barszewski
Manalapan commissioners want to know if there’s any way local elected officials can get around a new state law — other than by resigning their seats by Dec. 30 — that req
Stewards work to return animals to Gumbo Limbo
By Steve Plunkett
Before sea turtles can return to the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, the state says Boca Raton must transfer “ownership or control” of the center’s two multimillion-dollar aquariums to the
By Larry Barszewski
Ocean Ridge’s two newest town commissioners plan to leave office before the end of the year.
Commissioners Philip Besler and Ken Kaleel, two former office holders appointed to join the board again in April following the resignatio
Brazilian pepper was the pervasive invasive in the 1980s when I moved to this area. Now there are iguanas. Fewer “square groupers” wash ashore on summer nights; instead more sea turtles make the annual trek up the beach. Then sometime during the past
Ruby Berger, who volunteers as an usher at local theaters, lives in Boynton Beach in a home that features her eclectic collection of artwork. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Jan Norris
Have you been to a live theater performance in Palm Beach County
Related: South Palm Beach: Dogs no longer allowed on town property
I am writing to express my concern regarding several important issues that require the attention of the South Palm Beach Town Council.
One such issue is the use of sidewalks by bikes
Related: Ocean Ridge: Town seeking grant to fix water valves
Recently, some residents were led to believe that Ocean Ridge had no idea where our buried water pipes, juncture boxes or turn-off valves were located. Of course, if this were true that wou
By Pat Beall
When Delray Beach osteopath Michael Ligotti was sentenced in January to 20 years in prison, Department of Justice officials heralded his conviction and sentence.
Ligotti, they said, had been at the center of a $746 million addiction trea
