By Mary Kate Leming, Editor
Most years at this time we’d be planning our annual Coastal Star holiday party. We like to kick off the new year by getting everyone who works for the newspaper together for an afternoon of socializing.
Many have worked t
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Rebecca Scott has joined the board of directors of Impact 100 Palm Beach County as the group considers 25 semifinalists for $100,000 grants in 2021. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Sallie James
Meet Rebecca “Becky” Scott: mother, grandmother, philant
By Larry Barszewski
The Coastal Star captured five first-place awards and eight other commendations in the annual Florida Press Club competition.
The press club held the annual awards ceremony online Dec. 19. The Coastal Star won top awards in its cl
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge voters will get the chance to choose two town commissioners in the March 9 municipal election after four candidates qualified in December to run for office.
The field includes two familiar names. Current Mayor Kristine de H
IPIC’s Mizner Park theater reopened in the fall with social distancing and other precautions in place but now is facing an eviction proceeding in circuit court. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Mary Hladky
IPIC theater’s landlord in Mizner Park is see
By Jane Smith
The Florida Department of Health in Palm Beach County was still waiting last month for Delray Beach to finish inspecting its reclaimed water locations.
Then, the DOH will determine whether the information provided is enough to close ou
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach will have a second person review police payroll reimbursement requests for manatee protection after the county Office of Inspector General pointed out documentation problems.
The OIG report, released on Dec. 21, states tha
By Dan Moffett
Gulf Stream should make upgrades and repairs today to prepare for rising seas that will strain the town’s stormwater infrastructure in years to come.
That’s the conclusion of West Palm Beach-based engineering consultants from Baxter &
A shovel moves sand brought in to reinforce a sea wall being installed along beachfronts of three properties just south of Ocean Ridge’s Anna Street beach crossover. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Dan Moffett
In February, Ocean Ridge commissioners d
Christine Cummings, a registered nurse who works at Bethesda East, was the among the first local frontline workers to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, from Katie Van Lennep, director of professional development at Boca Raton Regional Hospital. Jerry Low
By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton and Palm Beach County are pushing back against a federal appellate court ruling by a three-judge panel that struck down their bans on the controversial practice of conversion therapy.
The city and county filed a petition on
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach is asking residents to avoid coming into City Hall to pay bills, fees or fines to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The widespread effects of COVID-19 illnesses have resulted in slower city services, such as the time it take
Kristin Alexandre of Gulf Stream wrote a novel, Gem City Gypsy, that led her to produce a story for a movie, Dead Reckoning. Photo provided
By Brian Biggane
When Gulf Stream resident Kristin Alexandre decided to turn her novel Gem City Gypsy into a
By Mary Hladky
As part of its continuing effort to improve walkability in the downtown, the city is installing rapid flashing beacons at four locations along East Palmetto Park Road.
The beacons draw attention to approaching vehicles as pedestrians l
By Mary Hladky
In yet more fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, the Boca Raton Resort & Club will terminate 995 employees effective Feb. 6.
The resort furloughed the employees in March as the first COVID-19 cases were reported in Florida and busine
By Mary Hladky and Rich Pollack
President Donald Trump’s rush to grant clemencies before leaving office reached into Palm Beach County last month when he issued full pardons to former County Commissioner Mary McCarty and Boca Raton real estate mogul
By Mary Thurwachter
Lantana’s longtime Mayor David J. Stewart faces two challengers in the March 9 election — Joe Ferrell and Robert Hagerty.
Ferrell, 58, a flooring distributor and 20-year resident, is an alternate on the town’s Planning and Zoning
By Rich Pollack
As he dodged a fleeing car that had suspiciously parked in his circular driveway, 85-year-old Bob Ganger instinctively recalled tumbling lessons he learned during his school years decades ago.
“I did a couple of somersaults,” said Gan
By Jane Smith
Two incumbent Delray Beach city commissioners and the mayor will have challengers in the March 9 municipal election.
Mayor Shelly Petrolia, who opened her reelection campaign in June 2018, raised $84,371.90 as of Nov. 30. A residential
By Dan Moffett
Town Manager Bill Thrasher was so disappointed by a Briny Breezes Town Council vote to postpone putting a charter amendment referendum on the March ballot that he considered resigning.
That was enough for the council to reverse itself
