Shaw with board President Gary Peters in 2006. Photo provided
Eric Shaw, Boca Helping Hands’ longest-serving board member, stepped down after 18 years of service, 14 as vice president. Shaw, described by staffers as ‘the perfect gentleman,’ personifi
Dozens of residents decorated themselves, their cars and golf carts, and even their pets as they took part in the neighborhood’s annual Holiday Festival of Lights Parade.
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Mike and Deidre Neal (l-r) and their neighbors, Nick, Katherine and Mazie Malinoski, greet Mrs. Claus. Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
The coronavirus changed how municipalities celebrated the holidays, with the traditional large public gath
The 150,000-square-foot Delray Beach Market will have more than 30 vendors of food and other products. It is scheduled to open in March. Rendering provided
By Jan Norris
With completion only a few calendar pages away, the Delray Beach Market is in
By Christine Davis
Patients admitted with COVID-19 at Boca Raton Regional Hospital may enroll in a clinical trial to test a new treatment for the disease. The trial is named Prevent, reflecting the hope that it will rapidly reverse the damages of p
By Janis Fontaine
On Jan. 2, 1921, radio station KDKA became the first to broadcast a Christian church service, from Calvary Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh. Today, thousands of churches make their services available to people who can’t attend in pe
By Janis Fontaine
It was a Hanukkah unlike any other.
The jubilant holiday of lights was dampened by COVID-19, but nothing could dowse the spirit of local leaders.
“Our message is light,” Rabbi Shmuel Biston said. “It only takes a small light to ma
Austrian artist Franz West’s 2006 epoxy resin work Gorgo is one piece featured in the Sculpture Garden, which opened in February 2019. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
Those looking for a unique cultural experience or just a
Author Shannon Q. McDonald also sold mask-making kits with holiday themes. Photos provided
By Janis Fontaine
When COVID-19 became a part of our lives last spring, Delray Beach mom Shannon Q. McDonald reasoned that mask-wearing likely would be requi
Capt. Art Sapp (center) and his Native Son team based in Pompano Beach stand for photos after beating 39 other boats to win the Hope Town United Sailfish Tournament with 13 live-bait releases posted in two days of fishing last month. The team won $79
By Arden Moore
We can agree that COVID-19 has made 2020 a year we all wish to forget. But it’s never been a better time to be a cat or dog.
It’s indisputable: Pets are steadily making direct and indirect impacts in all aspects of our lives nowadays.
This Highland Beach property offers 100 feet of direct ocean frontage on a 400-foot-deep lot in the Byrd Beach section of town.
This custom-built, 12,201-total-square-foot oceanfront Highland Beach estate offers 100 feet of direct ocean frontage wi
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 awar
By Dan Moffett
South Palm Beach has postponed its Dec. 8 council meeting and restricted access to town hall after a town employee tested positive for COVID-19 this week.
Mayor Bonnie Fischer said the building is being sanitized and no rescheduling da
Surfer Bernard Micalizzi recently helped save two boys from drowning at the Boynton Inlet. Lt. Brian McManus (left) of Palm Beach County Ocean Rescue calls Boynton ‘the most dangerous inlet in the universe.’ Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Polla
Highland Beach used a drone to take photos of 106 people who turned out at the planned Milani Park near high tide Nov. 18 in an effort to show the county that 42 parking spaces would be enough. The parking area is at upper left. Photo provided
By Ric
Vaccines, cabin fever offer hope for gloomy tourism forecast
The Renzi family shops for souvenirs at Beach Planet in Delray Beach. (l-r) Joe; Stacy; Mia, 8; and Ari,10, live in Chicago but came to Florida for a week to celebrate Thanksgiving with fri
I purchased the angel that sits atop our Christmas tree while on a trip to Mexico many years ago. She’s hammered tin with a painted face and poised to sing carols from a songbook clasped in her hands.
This year she’s going to take a break and sit on
Stephanie Dodge of Delray Beach has been part of all five Empty Bowls fundraisers and has amassed quite a collection of bowls. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Brian Biggane
When the Delray Beach Empty Bowls program needed some creative thinking, it c
By Dan Moffett
The Briny Breezes Town Council wants to set up a COVID-19 vaccination pod, so that when vaccines become available, the town can deliver them quickly and efficiently to residents.
But like so many things in 2020, even the good ideas com
