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By Mary Hladky
If it were up to Canadian Dory Kilburn, she would sell her home in Briny Breezes and never return to the U.S.
“I really love Briny,” s
Officer praised for saving man, curious pooch from Intracoastal Waterway
Gail and Steve McMillan sit with dog Molly and Officer Daniel Turnof near where Steve almost drowned. Molly broke her leg a few months earlier. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coasta
The cover of the Gulf Stream centennial book. Photos provided
To celebrate the town’s first 100 years, Mayor Scott Morgan collected historical photographs and wrote ‘The Town of Gulf Stream: A Place to Cherish.‘ The 104-page coffee table book chronic
Controlling traffic is a high priority as construction trucks and workers have to share the road with parents lined up to gather their students at the end of a day of classes at Gulf Stream School. Gulf Stream Police Officer Todd Stanton and Michael
By Steve Plunkett
The Briny Breezes Town Council was still trying to figure out dates, but it decided at its April 24 meeting to hold a budget workshop in May as well as the one it customarily has in the summer.
The driving reason: Town Manager Bill
With the completion of the Bonefish Cove Restoration project only months away, we look forward to visiting the mangrove islands and oyster reefs in the central Lake Worth Lagoon north of Hypoluxo Island. American avocets, black skimmers and royal ter
By Brian Biggane
South Palm Beach Vice Mayor Monte Berendes is the kind of legislator who typically sticks to his convictions: Once he takes a stance, he holds onto it. So, the fact Berendes has flip-flopped on a key issue regarding the new Town Hall
Greg Schiller, the new CEO of the Child Rescue Coalition, keeps reminders of children in his office in Boca Raton alongside screens showing data and the organization’s home page. Schiller is a former prosecutor of internet crimes against children. Ti
Lift station approved — At a special meeting on April 16, the South Palm Beach Town Council adopted an agreement to have Mock Roos & Associates design and oversee construction of a new lift station, to be built on the site of the existing one-story l
Michele Mahon at home in Ocean Ridge with her book, published this year by Austin Macauley and available in paperback for $9.95 on Amazon. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Michele Mahon of Ocean Ridge didn’t set out to write a children’s book. It kind o
By Rich Pollack
It has been a year since Highland Beach split from Delray Beach and started its own fire department, but a fight over who still owes the other money — and how much — is heating up again.
In late March, attorneys for Delray Beach sent
In what logical way does it make any sense to allow one person to inconvenience thousands?
Why would a [Manalapan] homeowner be allowed to tunnel under a public road [State Road A1A] for personal use? Why should thousands of people be inconvenienced
I really enjoyed reading John Pacenti’s article “Reef Madness: City diving deep to restore struggling coral” [April 2025 edition]. I am heartened by the fantastic work of the scientists at the Reef Institute and all the volunteers and supporters in D
Beginning with its May 2025 edition, The Coastal Star is converting all of its delivery to single-family homes, from newspapers in plastic bags thrown in driveways to U.S. Postal Service delivery to mailboxes.
If you live in one of these homes, plea
A Palm Beach woman is dead after being struck by a truck on April 1 in the parking lot of Plaza del Mar in Manalapan, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.
Janice Stein, 74, was walking across from Publix just before 8 a.m. when she “i
By Ron Hayes
GULF STREAM — On Easter Sunday 1969, Robert Ganger and his father explored a Gulf Stream mansion they found to be dilapidated, covered with mold, and empty.
Miradero, the former home of Lila Vanderbilt Webb, granddaughter of railroad mag
DELRAY BEACH — William Strucker, who opened Gulfstream Pharmacy in Briny Breezes almost 70 years ago — a business that remains family-owned and -operated — died on March 27. He was 94.
Born May 12, 1930, in Erie, Pennsylvania, to Howard and Helen Str
Dr. Peter Bonutti points to ruts adjacent to a sea turtle nest on the beach in Manalapan. Photos provided by Peter Bonutti
By John Pacenti
Manalapan officials are trying to get to the bottom of which mechanical beach raking company is leaving deep r
The owners of Evelyn & Arthur women’s clothing boutique are closing the Manalapan location due to 'rising prices.' Plaza del Mar was sold in December. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Christine Davis
Evelyn & Arthur women’s clothing boutique will clos
Lake Boca was the scene of a milder Boca Bash this April, with only four arrests made and none of the outrage of years past. The annual boating party, held on the last Sunday in April, drew its customary hundreds of boaters to the lake. The Instagram
