By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton residents will be asked for a second time if they support financing the cost of new police facilities.
Four City Council members, with Jon Pearlman absent, voted unanimously on Oct. 27 to place a measure on the March 9 city
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Planning agency tackles town’s future look — South Palm Beach Town Manager Jamie Titcomb said the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council will come to Town Hall for a meeting on Nov. 12 to discuss its master plan for the town, including everything f
Two species set all-time records in Boca Raton
By Steve Plunkett
With the exception of Delray Beach, mama sea turtles this year set records up and down the shoreline in south Palm Beach County.
In Boca Raton, two of the three species that nest along
The Mr. C. Residences Boca Raton will include a rooftop bar, infinity pool, spa, fitness center, sauna and more. Rendering provided
The luxury Mr. C Residences Boca Raton has been approved for construction by the Boca Raton City Council.
The 12-story
The eight-story club known as The Sanborn will be built on the former location of Boca Beach Chabad. Rendering provided
A private club is coming to downtown Boca Raton.
The City Council, sitting as the Community Redevelopment Agency board, unanimousl
Samantha Clark, co-founder and director of clinical operations at Sea Turtle Specialists, parades Windward, a juvenile green sea turtle, past students and chaperones from Cocoplum Nature School in Delray Beach. Windward and fellow juvenile green sea
Town commissioners and staff had to relocate to the town library on Hypoluxo Island for their Oct. 27 meeting because of king tide flooding on A1A. Emily Rose Finn/The Coastal Star
By Emily Rose Finn
Manalapan voters could decide as soon as March wh
By Jane Musgrave
The Boca Raton resort has won preliminary approval from the city to demolish three aging wooden docks and replace them with four new ones that will be longer, wider and more resilient to the vagaries of Mother Nature.
Both the city’s
By Rich Pollack
It wasn’t the wording of the campaign mailers that led a 25-year-old Boca Raton man to reportedly send death threats to State Rep. Peggy Gossett-Seidman.
It was the flyers themselves, state law enforcement agents say. The campaign lit
William Wietsma’s love of architecture means his work is his hobby. The Ocean Ridge resident grew up in South Florida, went to school in Los Angeles, then started his career in Pasadena where he spent years honing his craft designing custom hillside
A Boca Raton ordinance prohibiting residents from feeding iguanas, rats, mice and pigeons has met its demise less than two months after being enacted.
The City Council on Oct. 13 repealed the law that had been requested by Mayor Andy Thomson, which i
Despite the heroic effort, one of the victims later died
Detective Stacey Spirn and Officer Tim Temperato were presented with the Manalapan Police Department’s Lifesaving Award on Oct. 29 by Police Chief Jeff Rasor (center) for helping pull two men
Briny Breezes got a pleasant surprise in October: an email from the Federal Emergency Management Agency asking if the town still wanted that $1.4 million grant that it applied for over a year ago.
It does. And the reimbursable FEMA mitigation grant
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach town leaders figured they would see a reduction in the amount of wastewater being treated at a plant in Delray Beach when a recent $1.4 million sewer-lining project was completed.
They just didn’t realize how much grou
Long-term lease for Dune Deck? — The iconic Dune Deck Café, which has been operating at Lantana’s beach since 1991, received some encouraging news from the Town Council during its Oct. 26 meeting. The council agreed to add a charter amendment on the
By Emily Rose Finn
Manalapan residents could vote in March on whether the town should borrow about $2.8 million to bring natural gas service to the Point Manalapan neighborhood.
Florida Public Utilities, which estimated the cost, said it “represents
Boca Raton city officials are seeking input from residents on how to improve the west side of the downtown campus, including Memorial Park.
Residents’ ideas will be considered by consultants Chen Moore & Associates, hired by the city to envision rede
Highland Beach residents can get a fun kickoff to the holiday season as the town once again hosts its annual Mingle Jingle.
Set for 5 to 8 p.m. Dec. 3, this year’s holiday celebration in the parking lot of St. Lucy Catholic Church will include food
Developer envisions homes, retail once sale is complete
The entrance sign shows some that remain and others that have left the Boynton Beach Mall. Tenants have been told to vacate by mid-January. Anne Geggis/The Coastal Star
By Anne Geggis
The fadin
By Steve Plunkett
ATLANTIS — Rita L. Taylor, a fixture in the town halls of Gulf Stream, Ocean Ridge and Briny Breezes for more than five decades, died in her home on Oct. 28. She was 95.
Ms. Taylor served as the town clerk of Gulf Stream for 32 year
