By Larry Barszewski
A new police contract approved by Manalapan commissioners July 25 includes 7% annual pay raises for the next three years, lifting the starting salary for new hires to $65,000, and giving officers a $200-a-month gas allowance.
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Briny Breezes resident Rochelle Schanuel with her grandson Nolan Schanuel, the top draft pick of the Los Angeles Angels last month. RIGHT: Nolan’s promotion to the Double-A Rocket City Trash Pandas in northern Alabama prompted the team to create an i
Frank McKinney of coastal Delray Beach is renowned for his work on mansions but has owned this 1988 Yugo GV since 2006. It has about 117,000 miles on it, 50,000 of those since he bought it for $2,000. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Most people who live
By Rich Pollack
The owner of one of the few vacant parcels on the Intracoastal Waterway in Highland Beach is receiving slightly more than $600,000 after a judge ruled Palm Beach County installed a breakwater without the owner’s consent, and a jury la
Employees from Proshell Construction Services Inc. install rebar while employees from Pomeroy Electric Incorporated install conduit during the construction of the new fire station on State Road A1A in front of Highland Beach Town Hall. Tim Stepien/Th
OCEAN RIDGE — John Prescott Shibles of Ocean Ridge and Sea Girt, New Jersey, died July 23 at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune. He was 75.
He was born in New Brunswick and moved to the Jersey Shore in the mid-1970s and to Ocean Ridge in
By Rich Pollack
HIGHLAND BEACH — Bernard Featherman loved living in Highland Beach and loved even more having served as the town’s mayor.
“One of the five top highlights of his life was being mayor,” his son Andrew Featherman said.
Mr. Featherman, w
By Rich Pollack
For Laura and Frank Troiano, the two pieces of property they owned — one on the east side of State Road A1A and one directly across on the west side — seemed like, well, two pieces of property.
But the land east of the highway, where
By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton’s property tax rate likely will remain unchanged for the fiscal year that begins on Oct. 1.
The proposed 2023-24 tax rate, presented by Deputy City Manager George Brown to the City Council on July 25, is the same as the curr
By Mary Thurwachter
The Coastal Star received three first-place awards and nine overall in the Florida Press Association 2023 Weekly Newspaper Contest for non-daily newspapers.
The stories receiving first-place recognition included a touching obituar
By Steve Plunkett
The rate on property tax bills this fall for the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District will likely be the same $1.08 per $1,000 of taxable value that it was last fall.
District commissioners set the tentative rate at their July
By Brian Biggane
In the 12 years Bonnie Fischer has served as mayor, South Palm Beach has never been in a position to apply for or receive either a state or federal grant. With a new Town Hall building in the planning phase, that may be changing.
Whe
By Mary Hladky
County Commissioner Marci Woodward’s recent offer to help Boca Raton improve East Palmetto Park Road received a noncommittal response from Deputy City Manager George Brown.
Woodward, whose commission district includes the city, has met
By Larry Barszewski
Ocean Ridge commissioners reviewing the town’s proposed budget for next year have decided the town doesn’t need a paid lobbyist, and commissioners don’t need computer tablets or a pay raise.
But Town Manager Lynne Ladner can repla
Investments Limited has submitted a proposal for a pair of nine-story towers with a total of 266 guest rooms to be built where the post office now stands downtown. Rendering provided
By Mary Hladky
James and Marta Batmasian, the largest commercial pr
The effort to get Pearl City on the National Register of Historic Places is stalled because that designation could delay or halt renovation of the Dixie Manor public housing. Photo provided
By Mary Hladky
Marie Hester has worked for years to get Pear
RIGHT: License plate reading cameras are motion activated and take a series of photos that compare plate numbers against those of vehicles listed as suspicious. ABOVE: Police can view results on a desktop computer, in a squad car or even on a phone.
RELATED: Along the Coast: Newest camera technology on road has put big dent in crime, police say
One of the earliest coastal communities to employ license plate recognition software was the town of Manalapan, which had a system in place as early as 2
A half-acre property originally part of the Vanderbilt estate in Gulf Stream sold for $16.7 million recently to a Canadian businessman’s family trust. Photo provided by Zillow.com
By Christine Davis
A trust in the name of Catherine German West sold t
Seth Butcher, who picks and sorts the fruit at Hatcher Mango Hill in Lantana, takes a bite out of a ripe mango. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star BELOW RIGHT: John and Pearl with the original Hatcher mango tree. Photo provided
Faithful fans turn out for a
