Beads, bands and beer
just part of the fabric
of annual event
More than 100,000 Floridians and snowbirds gathered March 17 along Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach to celebrate the city’s 50th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade. The current parade organize
Concrete power poles have been installed along Southeast Seventh Avenue in the Marina Historic District. Photo provided
By Jane Smith
Florida Power & Light will move four recently installed concrete power poles on Southeast Seventh Avenue in the Ma
Candace Friis, at home in Gulf Stream, says her real estate career feeds her love of people and spaces. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Brian Biggane
Degrees in sculpture and economics don’t typically point one to a career in real estate, but that’s
By Jane Smith
The Riverwalk Plaza renovation continues to inch forward.
In late March, the Prime Catch restaurant owner traded a small mangrove strip along the Intracoastal Waterway for 50 guaranteed parking spaces for his patrons in the renovated Ri
By Emily J. Minor
BRINY BREEZES — Alma Coir, who began coming to Briny Breezes in the 1940s when the view out the car window was citrus and cattle, died March 10 after a brief illness. Many town residents grew to know her for her love of reading and
By Jane Smith
Dogs won’t frolic at Oceanfront Park anytime soon.
That’s the recommendation the Boynton Beach Recreation & Parks Board made in late March.
Members voted 5-1 after reviewing a residents’ survey where nearly 70 percent were for allowing
By Dan Moffett
When Briny Breezes Town Council members started considering the idea of creating a manager’s position two years ago, they thought that the right person for the job might be able to increase the amount of state and federal grant money t
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach City Commissioners voted to install themselves as their Community Redevelopment Agency board members.
The members of the CRA board were replaced immediately with the vote.
Citing displeasure with the pace of West Atlantic
By Dan Moffett
New Town Council members Bill Birch and Kathy Gross took the oath of office on March 20, completing a governmental overhaul in Briny Breezes that has been many months in the making.
Besides the addition of the two aldermen, Dale Sugerm
Most shareholders of the Briny Breezes mobile home park are not interested in marketing their community for sale. At least that’s how they voted Feb. 28.
After a petition drive led by a resident — who is also a Realtor — to list Briny for $1 billion
By Mary Thurwachter
Lantana will spruce up the town’s 17 bus passenger shelters and benches in April.
Each will be sandblasted, primed and get a fresh coat of regal blue paint.
The shelters are 17 years old and haven’t been repainted before, says Lin
Signs ask residents to fight to keep the post office downtown, and the Postal Service says it’s trying to cooperate as it plans to relocate the facility. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Steve Plunkett
Residents who packed a room in the Community Cen
The revamped visitors center is open every day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. It contains brochures about local merchants, a Delray Beach map and a historic-photo display. Jerry Lower/ The Coastal Star
By Christine Davis
The Delray Beach Visitor Information
The bridge crossing the Intracoastal at Camino Real will receive $8.9 million in repairs. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
The bridge goes up. The bridge goes down.
The bridge goes up and the bridge goes down.
The bridge goes up — and come
By Steve Plunkett
If you thought construction crews would vanish from Interstate 95 as work on the Spanish River Boulevard interchange wound down, guess again.
In a combined open house/public meeting March 14, state transportation officials reviewe
Related story: Boynton Beach, Delray Beach ask for ban on assault rifles
By Rich Pollack
The rush of calls came soon after word spread about the mass shooting in Parkland. Parents of children attending public and private schools throughout Palm
By Steve Plunkett
The Greater Boca Raton Beach & Park District will pay Arthur Koski, its lawyer and executive director, $120,000 for extra work he performed negotiating and finalizing the $24 million purchase of the Ocean Breeze golf course.
Koski’s
By Jane Smith
Hudson Holdings promoted its massive Midtown Delray project one last time prior to its City Commission review.
Before the March 6 Delray Beach meeting, two young women stood before the entrance of City Hall, holding baskets full of han
Vice Mayor Alysen Africano-Nila (above)
and Commissioner Peggy Gossett-Seidman (right) are sworn in to office in Highland Beach. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Voters in Highland Beach turned out in record numbers during
ABOVE: When not competing, training or traveling, Kevin Anderson likes to relax in his Gulf Stream home with his guitar and new dog, Lady Kady. Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
ABOVE: He spends hours stretching and practicing in an effort to re
