By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach will use $500,000 from its penny tax proceeds during the next fiscal year to upgrade the eastern end of Boynton Beach Boulevard, the city’s public works director said July 16.
Andrew Mack told city commissioners on the sec
By Steve Plunkett
Police patrol officers and sergeants will get a one-time $3,750 raise to bring their salaries more in line with comparable towns in Town Manager Greg Dunham’s proposed 2020 budget.
The increase will set Gulf Stream’s starting police
By Mary Thurwachter
The streets of Lantana are about to get brighter at night. The reason: The town is switching out its high-pressure sodium street lights with energy-efficient LEDs, or light-emitting diodes.
The Town Council on July 8 approved an a
By Mary Thurwachter
Lantana police made quick work in nabbing a Belle Glade lawn maintenance worker charged with snatching $200,000 worth of checks from a mailbox on South Atlantic Drive on Hypoluxo Island.
According to the police report, Marchello W
By Mary Thurwachter
Lantana has a big birthday coming up in 2021 — its centennial — and plans for the celebration are already percolating.
At the July 22 council meeting, Town Clerk Nicole Dritz outlined proposals from the Centennial Committee.
Sugge
By Stephen Moore
Manalapan Town Manager Linda Stumpf does not have all the figures to finalize the town’s 2019-2020 budget, but she does have enough information to propose increasing the tax rate for residents by up to 3.7 percent over last year’s ra
David Anderson, sea turtle conservation coordinator at Gumbo Limbo, checks a loggerhead nest at Red Reef Park.
By Larry Keller
As surely as the sun rises in the east, David Anderson and others from Gumbo Limbo Nature Center are on the beach, excavat
The Mandarin buildings will dominate the northeast corner of Camino Real and Federal Highway. Rendering provided
By Christine Davis
Penn-Florida Cos. has secured a $225 million construction loan from Madison Realty Capital for the third and final to
City Council agrees to explore idea for downtown stop
By Mary Hladky
Many South Florida cities want a Virgin Trains station, but now it looks like Boca Raton will walk away with the prize if an agreement can be reached between the city and the for-
By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton property owners will see a minuscule decrease in the city’s property tax rate if the tentative rate set on July 23 wins final approval.
“Taking direction from our goal-setting session this spring, staff is not recommending a
By Mary Hladky
A prosecutor has introduced new evidence showing that suspended Boca Raton Mayor Susan Haynie cast a another vote that potentially benefited the city’s largest downtown commercial landowner.
Haynie was arrested on April 24, 2018, on ch
Owner Wayne Cordero and his son Ryan, who manages the restaurant, stand on the dock at the Old Key Lime House. Wayne bought the building in 1986 after it had been closed for a couple of years. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Charles Elmore
To hear W
By Steve Plunkett
After missing a June 20 target for reopening the Camino Real bridge and then a less definite goal “towards the end of July,” Palm Beach County officials on July 30 had not committed to a new opening date.
Deputy County Engineer Tany
By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton now has a sustainability action plan, the first major city effort to begin protecting residents from the effects of global warming and sea level rise.
“This will be a road map for the Office of Sustainability going forward,
By Rich Pollack
A developer that hopes to build townhouses in Highland Beach has less than a month to seek a permit for work done almost two years ago.
During a July 23 hearing, the town’s Code Enforcement Board voted unanimously to give Golden City
By Steve Plunkett
The gulf separating visions of golf in the city widened in July as the City Council sought fresh ideas from course architects and the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District tentatively set an almost 36 percent tax increase.
Coun
By Steve Plunkett
Lawyers for the owner of an undeveloped lot at 2500 N. Ocean Blvd. made another unsuccessful attempt July 23 to win permission to build on the beach.
The City Council voted 5-0 not to grant a variance allowing construction east of t
By Mary Hladky
A Palm Beach County circuit judge has thrown out a lawsuit brought by developer and landowner Crocker Partners that sought $137 million in damages from Boca Raton for actions Crocker claims left it unable to redevelop its Midtown prope
By Sallie James
BOCA RATON — He was a savvy Boca Raton entrepreneur whose 62-year-old business is still open today, but those closest to Clyde E. DeShields say his greatest legacy was his devotion to family and dedication to helping single mothers. M
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach town commissioners will spend the next few weeks looking for ways to trim about $450,000 out of a proposed 2019-2020 budget in hopes of avoiding either slightly raising the tax rate, borrowing from reserves or a little
