Boca Helping Hands commemorated its 27th anniversary with a celebration by the Heart & Spirit Society honoring Pattie Damron and Peggy Jones. The annual event brings together current and former board, staff and volunteer members for service activitie
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Benny’s on the Beach in Lake Worth Beach offers deals for lunch or dinner featuring its Palm Beach shrimp tacos, famous Key lime pie and other choices. Photos provided
By Jan Norris
September is a great month to be a local if you’re dining out. Dea
Delray Medical Center vascular surgeon Dr. Joseph Ricotta recently used the Spur Peripheral Retrievable Stent System to treat narrowed arteries below the knee. The device is a temporary support tube that helps keep arteries open after they’ve been wi
Major sits in an ample dog cage. The best recommendation is one pet per cage during an evacuation. Photo provided
By Arden Moore
The first hurricane I experienced in South Florida was a whopper. Hurricane Andrew pummeled South Florida with a Catego
Rabbi Leibel Stolik plans to make several stops with his shofar to usher in the first day of Rosh Hashanah. Photo provided
By Janis Fontaine
This Rosh Hashanah is Rabbi Leibel Stolik’s 20th year leading High Holidays services in coastal Palm Beach C
Former opera singer Shir Rozzen, whose first name means ‘song,’ has joined Temple Sinai of Palm Beach County in Delray Beach as its cantorial soloist. Photo provided
By Janis Fontaine
When Shir Rozzen sings at Rosh Hashanah services this month, it
By Janis Fontaine
St. Lucy Catholic Church honors the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary Sept. 8 on this feast and day of prayer from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the church at 3510 S. Ocean Blvd., Highland Beach.
The day begins with Mass at 8:30 followed b
Capt. Steve Anderson holds a nice snook he caught on a recent fishing trip in the Jupiter Inlet. September is a good time to catch snook in local inlets. Photos by Steve Waters/The Coastal Star
By Steve Waters
Tom Greene used to look forward to Sept
By Mary Hladky
The Boca Raton City Council has selected Mark Sohaney, who has an impressive resume but no experience running a city, to succeed George Brown as city manager.
In so doing at an Aug. 12 special meeting, the council rejected two highly q
Sheriff’s office announces arrest of serial shooter who took aim at homes in Ocean Ridge, Delray Beach, Boynton Beach and elsewhere
The Glock 9mm handgun that officials say was used in 16 separate shooting incidents around Palm Beach County in rec
Coral outcropping at proposed Milani Park — an out-of-the-way lure for snorkelers — once attracted Japanese settlers, indigenous tribes Japanese settlers of Yamato Colony shown circa 1922 at Yamato Rock, once known as ’Jap Rock.’ It was a hub for th
Residents put the mic in their own hands to take leaders to task via social media sites
By John Pacenti
Elected leaders routinely reach out to Delray Beach resident Ingrid Lee through text or social media. The mayor has met her for coffee to discus
Holly Schuttler (l-r), Liz DeBiase, Jon Pearlman and Dawn Alford Zook, of Save Boca, hold signs in support of their agenda. The group’s petitions call for amendments to a city ordinance and to the City Charter that would not allow the City Council to
We are delighted to share some good news about the future of The Coastal Star.
We’re welcoming Harvey Oyer III as a shareholder in the ownership of our publishing company. Our newspaper has been locally owned and operated since we published our first
By John Pacenti
For months, Manalapan commissioners sought to determine whether or not Palm Beach County’s sand transfer plant at the Boynton Inlet was to blame for erosion of its shores.
An engineer and beach erosion expert hired by the town to look
Paul and Andrea Fazzino head the Delray Beach nonprofit Beach Keepers Inc., which is dedicated to keeping beaches and other public spaces free from trash. The organization uses regular volunteers and runs special cleanup events. Tim Stepien/The Coas
Workers paint over rainbow street art — celebrating gay pride — in Boynton Beach on East Ocean Avenue after federal and state officials threateaned to withold millions of dollars for transportation improvements if the artwork isn't removed. Photo pro
Hailey Clark, a marine biology student at Florida Atlantic University and a volunteer for the Coastal Stewards, releases Sparrow, a green sea turtle, into the ocean on July 10. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Steve Plunkett
The gift shop at Boca Rat
The Manalapan Town Commission has tentatively set the tax rate for the upcoming fiscal year, maintaining the same rate as the previous three years.
However, because property values rose again this year, property owners will still be paying more in t
The Coastal Star recently covered the planned Milani oceanfront park in Highland Beach. I write to emphasize the important right of public access to the shoreline.
Recent Florida beach events spotlight the issue.
First, the Florida governor resci
