By Steve Plunkett
In a surprise move, Briny Breezes Town Manager Bill Thrasher dropped his proposal to raise town taxes 98% and instead proposed keeping the property tax rate the same as this year, at $3.75 per $1,000 of taxable value.
The Town Counc
Briny Breezes Mayor Ted Gross hears lots of complaints from residents upset about the town’s permitting process — and he might easily have joined their chorus recently after his unit was plastered with a failed inspection notice.
But he didn’t.
The f
Related: Downtown plan’s fate is up to voters, mayor says
By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton voters will decide in the March 10 city election whether to approve a $175 million bond issue to finance construction of a new police headquarters.
City Council membe
Family of the late Robert Ganger has sold the historic Vanderbilt home in Gulf Stream (above) for $21.6 million. An adjacent property once part of the estate sold in 2023. Photo provided
By Jane Musgrave
Five months after businessman-turned-historic
By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton has scrapped its plan to change the beach parking system.
On ice are the addition of new technology and eliminating beach park gatehouses.
Residents still will be able to get a sticker to attach to the lower left-hand corner
By Mary Hladky
When Boca Raton officials in 2009 purchased the land that now is Wildflower Park, they envisioned it as the perfect spot for a waterfront restaurant.
A citizens’ group, however, had a very different idea. Members wanted a public park,
TOP: ADMA Biologics won the heavyweight division in the second annual Boca Helping Hands Corporate Challenge Hunger Games. L-R: Ryan Bertalotto, Jomarie Ramirez, Cassandra Hugelmeyer, Marie-Chantale Simard, Joel Robinson, Christina Odai, Patricia Fo
Driver Engineer Kyle Pavelka (l-r) and firefighters Alex Lutz and Alex Ayerdis demonstrate the use of the epoc Blood Analysis System now being used on emergency medical calls by Highland Beach Fire Rescue. The department is the first in Palm Beach Co
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach town commissioners gave final approval Sept. 18 to a new $32.2 million budget that includes approximately $6.6 million in town-wide capital projects while at the same time holding the tax rate steady.
The total budget
By Mary Hladky
City Manager George Brown’s long tenure as a top city administrator is coming to a close.
Brown, who announced in April that he would be retiring at year’s end, attended his final City Council meeting on Sept. 25 and became City Manage
The Boca Raton has agreed to take the lead on refurbishing the century-old fountain on East Camino Real just outside the resort’s main entrance. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Mary Hladky
The orphan fountain outside the entrance to The Boca Raton wi
The Residences at Martin Manor is finally rising from the ground.
Years of effort to replace the dilapidated Dixie Manor public housing complex bore fruit on Aug. 25, when a groundbreaking ceremony was held for three apartment buildings that will pro
By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton’s tax rate will remain virtually unchanged for the fiscal year that began on Oct. 1.
The 2025-26 property tax rate, approved unanimously by the City Council on Sept. 25, is $3.66 per $1,000 of taxable value, or 1 cent less t
Boca Raton Regional Hospital was recently recognized as a Comprehensive Resuscitation Center of Excellence, a statewide initiative launched in 2022 as part of the Florida Resuscitation Center Committee’s mission to improve survival rates for sudden c
Leaders of the Boca Raton Junior League gearing up for the Nov. 21 awards luncheon include (l-r): Julie Ott, Dr. Kathy Schilling, Namrata Israni, Racheal Petullo, Carrie Rubin, Victoria Matthews, Shakira Sarquis-Kolber, Maureen Mann and Robin Mautin
Greater Delray Beach Chamber of Commerce staff members (l-r) Judy Sowards, Sarah Mears, Stephanie Immelman, Carolina Rush and Lynn Van Lenten are looking forward to another successful installment of Do Good Delray. Photo provided by MasterWing Creat
ABOVE: (l-r) Michele Katzman, David Katzman and Elaine Zimmerman. Photo provided by Colby Kessler
JARC Florida, a nonprofit based in Boca Raton that provides programs and services to educate and empower those with intellectual and developmental disab
ABOVE: (l-r) Society President Denise Alman, Zook, committee member Laura Malone, Executive Director Mary Csar and committee member Lori Saunders. BELOW: (l-r) Victoria Matthews, Dorothy MacDiarmid, Fabiola Hooker and committee members Reilly Glasser
TOP: (l-r) Marcia Mithun, Doug Mithun, Arlene Herson, Emily Grabelsky and Teri Wolofsky. MIDDLE: (l-r) Amy Seidman, Zoe Lanham, Bonnie Halperin and Nicole Flier. ABOVE: (l-r) Holli Rockwell Trubinsky, Kristina Gregg and Joe Trubinsky. Photos provided
October offers a bevy of food and drink events as the new season gears up. The Delray Beach GreenMarket is set to open Oct. 25 at Old School Square. Photos provided
By Jan Norris
No fall leaves here, and the thermometer dips only slightly, but South
