Independent consultant to review cemetery — Delray Beach has hired a consulting firm to address long-standing complaints about plots and maintenance at Delray Beach Memorial Gardens Municipal Cemetery.
The comprehensive review by Kuehne Cemetery Cons
By Brian Biggane
What began as a relatively confrontational meeting between officials from Lantana and South Palm Beach ended with the two sides agreeing to work toward a resolution of a territorial dispute that has been brewing for years.
The disagr
By Steve Plunkett and Mary Hladky
The Boca Raton City Council gave final approval on Sept. 22 to a $276.8 million general fund budget and set the property tax rate at $3.66 per $1,000 of taxable property value.
The new tax rate is a tiny tax cut of 0
Town’s tax rate jumps dramatically — The Briny Breezes Town Council unanimously agreed to nearly double the tax rate for the new fiscal year, approving a rate of $6.75 per $1,000 of taxable property value, up from the $3.75 per $1,000 residents paid
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach’s efforts to enhance safety on the Intracoastal Waterway got a shot in the arm in September when the Florida Inland Navigation District awarded the town $1.29 million to be used for a public safety boat dock.
The dock,
Boca Raton uses barriers Miami International lacked
This jet overran the runway last year at Boca Raton Airport, but the Engineered Material Arresting System — the crushed concrete block surrounding the plane — prevented it from continuing toward bus
By Emily Rose Finn
Manalapan’s plan to replace the aging guardhouse at the entrance to Point Manalapan is back on the drawing board after bids for the work greatly exceeded what town commissioners had authorized — even after the town scaled back the
By Emily Rose Finn
Manalapan’s town tax rate will stay at $3 per $1,000 of taxable value for another year, though most property owners will still pay more because property values keep climbing.
Town commissioners on Sept. 28 unanimously approved the
Suzanne Snider, curator of the Museum of Central American Art in Delray Beach, holds a copy of the book she co-wrote with her business partner, Mark Ford. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Delray Beach resident Suzanne Snider has spent a lifetime on the
By Emily Rose Finn
A contractor building a private pedestrian tunnel under State Road A1A has Manalapan’s permission to keep working on the tunnel for about two weeks into the start of the town’s tourist season in November.
Last year, a monthslong tu
By Emily Rose Finn
Manalapan has recast its shore-based shark fishing crackdown as a nuisance law, leaving fishing regulation to the state while keeping a 100-yard buffer between hooks and swimmers.
Commissioners revamped an ordinance they approved i
By Mary Thurwachter
It’s been almost seven years since Kmart shuttered in Lantana. The 84,000-square-foot building at 1201 S. Dixie Highway remains empty and an adjacent building fronting on Greynolds Road is giving off serious ghost town vibes with
Students from St. Jude Catholic School in Boca Raton empty buckets of debris collected along the Spanish River Park shoreline during the 2026 International Coastal Cleanup. ICC is the world’s largest volunteer effort to clean up beaches and the marin
By Mary Thurwachter
It looked like curtains for Lantana Pizza when it shuttered at 467 Greynolds Circle in April. Dino and Fatime Ismajli, who ran the popular eatery there for 27 years, thanked loyal customers and said it was time to retire.
But it a
Lantana’s budget comes with no big surprises, with a tax rate of $3.75 for every $1,000 of taxable value for the fifth consecutive year. The Town Council formally adopted the budget after a final public hearing on Sept. 17.
The $3.75 rate necessary
By Connor Walter Brickel and Larry Barszewski
Boynton Beach commissioners didn’t hold the line on the city’s property tax rate this year. They dug deeply into it.
While officials in some towns and cities feel they’ve done a good job if they’re able t
By Steve Plunkett
Prodded by the impending loss of access to three sports fields at Florida Atlantic University, the city and the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District have approved agreements that lay the groundwork for adding fields at the Cou
OCEAN RIDGE — Mauro J. Walker, beloved husband, devoted father, grandfather, great-grandfather, accomplished engineer, and lifelong problem-solver, died Aug. 28. He was 90.
Born Nov. 21, 1935, to Nancy and Frank Walker in the coal-mining town of Hazl
The Boca Raton Police Services Department has opened an administrative review of a Dec. 18, 2024, officer-involved shooting that ended with a homeless man’s death.
The review, announced Sept. 8, comes after the State Attorney’s Office decided Aug. 26
FORT MYERS —Jon Larsen Shudlick, 84, of Fort Myers, formerly of Ocean Ridge and Rice Lake, Wisconsin, died on Aug. 3, 2025. He was born on Sept. 23, 1940, in Rice Lake, to Arthur and Florence (Larsen) Shudlick.
Mr. Shudlick was baptized into the Chr
