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By Jane Smith

When Delray Beach reorganized its Utilities Department in late January, it abruptly ended the employment of an industrial pretreatment inspector.
“It was done for efficiency and austerity reasons,” City Manager Terrence Moore said on J

By Tao Woolfe

The Coastal Star scooped up 16 writing awards — for everything from breaking news stories and features to commentary — from the Florida Press Club’s 2021 Excellence in Journalism competition.
The Jan. 22 annual awards celebration — whic

Mist rose from the sea as temperatures dipped into the 40s across south Palm Beach County on Jan. 23. The next weekend, an even colder front moved through the area, dropping the mercury to 39 degrees in Boca Raton and 37 in West Palm Beach. Accuwea

By Jane Smith

People renting beach chairs and umbrellas at the Delray Beach municipal beach will pay 20% more for daily rentals and 17% more annually than they did last season.
City Manager Terrence Moore, who arranged the mid-January deal, also put

Gulf Stream resident Kevin Anderson is among three former champions scheduled to compete in the 30th annual Delray Beach Open by Vitacost, Feb. 11-20 at the Delray Beach Tennis Center.
Anderson, who won the event in 2012, was expected as of late Jan

Hurricane Alley’s owner says the money could come partly from the developer or as a stipend or grant. Staff photo

By Larry Barszewski

Hurricane Alley Raw Bar and Restaurant expects to have a new downtown home in the coming years, and its owner says B

The Magnuson House’s historic designation might present a hurdle to the entrepreneur who wants to turn it into a restaurant. Staff photo

By Larry Barszewski

A decade after adding the home of Boynton Beach pioneer Oscar Magnuson to the city’s list of

By Ron Hayes

BOYNTON BEACH — When I go, Eva Takacs often told her daughter and everyone else, I want to go with my swimsuit on, at the beach, in the water, on a lovely day.
On the morning of Dec. 31, her final wish was granted. She was 92.
“The beach w

A fire of suspicious origin damaged the unoccupied Breakers Townhomes located near the corner of Palmetto Park Road and South Ocean Boulevard.
Photo provided by Boca Raton Fire Rescue

By Mary Hladky

The state fire marshal is seeking the public’s he

By Rich Pollack

As Highland Beach residents prepare to vote on five recommended Town Charter revisions, much of the focus has been on one change that would significantly modify the town’s spending cap from $350,000 to slightly over $1 million.
During

By Sallie James

OCEAN RIDGE — Glory B. King, a pioneering psychotherapist who founded the avant-garde Here and Now Institute in Boca Raton in the 1960s, died on Dec. 9 at Willowbrooke Court at St. Andrews of complications related to diabetes. She was

GULF STREAM — Catherine Hohenlohe Jacobus, a voracious reader and creative writer, died in Delray Beach on Dec. 21. She was 79. For the last 40-plus years, she divided her time between Florida and Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, usually feeding, te

By Dan Moffett

BRINY BREEZES — When the Town Council had an open seat in 2016, Allen “Chick” Behringer stepped up and volunteered to fill it.
He said Briny Breezes had been good to him since his first visit in 2002, and now that he had left Long Isla

By Mary Hladky

Mayor Scott Singer is hitting the pause button on his idea to bring in Elon Musk’s The Boring Co. to build underground tunnels to transport people around town.
Singer first raised the possibility in May as Miami Mayor Frank Suarez and F

By Mary Hladky

After a 20-year career with IBM, former Deputy Mayor Jeremy Rodgers is relocating to Tallahassee after being hired as chief information security officer for Florida Digital Service, which is part of the state’s Department of Management

GULF STREAM — James Mellon Walton, a corporate and philanthropic leader in his hometown of Pittsburgh and humble volunteer serving Haitian children at Paul’s Place in Delray Beach, died Jan. 2 at his home in Ligonier, Pennsylvania, surrounded by his

Boca Raton still has funds available to help city homeowners and renters who have experienced financial hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The city received a $357,280 Community Development Block Grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Deve

Two sculptures intended to be focal points at Wildflower and Silver Palm parks, as well as design work on an interactive play area, will cost the city $130,620.
Without comment, City Council members on Jan. 11 authorized City Manager Leif Ahnell to ex

OCEAN RIDGE — Barbara S. Traylor, longtime resident of Boynton Beach and Ocean Ridge, died peacefully at her home in Ocean Ridge on Jan. 21. She was 88.
Mrs. Traylor was an independent woman, a professional who made many contributions to the Boynton B

John Treanor was appointed Boca Raton’s fire chief on Dec. 18, succeeding retiring Chief Thomas Wood.
Treanor joined the fire rescue department in 1995 and served as firefighter, driver, captain, EMS captain, division chief, assistant fire chief and d