Ron Heavyside’s sons, Ronnie (left) and Ryan, run the Nomad Surf Shop he started in 1968. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
On a breezy Friday evening not long ago, Ron Heavyside sat in an old wooden porch chair in front of his Nomad Surf Sh
Now that Easter has passed, winter visitors are beginning their journeys back to northern homes. As they prepare to leave, other visitors are getting ready to come. These visitors are just off shore and in an amorous mood. Soon, sea turtles will be c
Gail Milhous, at her home in Boca Raton’s Sanctuary, will be honored along with her husband, Robert, for her advocacy on behalf of Parkinson’s patients. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Gail Milhous knows firsthand the toll Parkinson’s
Phil Besler and Kristine de Haseth won in their first attempts at running for public office. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Dan Moffett
Coastal advocate Kristine de Haseth said she “did a lot of door-to-door canvassing” in campaigning for a seat on
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach can now boast it has two historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places.
The newest register listing came in mid-March when the National Park Service, which keeps the Historic Places list, decided that the O
By Dan Moffett
South Palm Beach Mayor Bonnie Fischer says she met with county environmental officials in March and left convinced they are committed to going ahead with the town’s controversial beach stabilization project.
“The county is definitely m
Winter storms in the Northeast that produced lots of snow and intense wind meant high surf for Palm Beach County in early March.
ABOVE: John Shipley of Delray Beach surfs down the line after being pulled into the wave by a jet ski at the Boynton Inle
C. W. ‘Bill’ LeRoy, who moved to South Palm 2 ½ years ago, won election with the third-most votes. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Dan Moffett
Vice Mayor Robert Gottlieb went into the March election with a simple message for South Palm Beach voters.
More than 1,000 participants marched from Old School Square to the ocean in Delray Beach on March 24 to call for an end to gun violence. Michele Quigley/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
Three Village Academy students came to the Delray Beach City Comm
By Dan Moffett
Manalapan town commissioners say they’re looking forward to Publix’s opening a supermarket at Plaza del Mar this summer.
But they’re not so excited about that long-awaiting arrival that they’re willing to allow Publix to open a wine an
By Steve Plunkett
The Gumbo Limbo Nature Center would be replaced by a twice-as-big facility with sweeping cantilever roofs built over a ground-level parking garage in a proposal by waterfront parks consultant EDSA Inc.
The parking garage would have
Briny celebrates 60 years: Parade honors longtime residents and social clubs that help to define the community
Dozens of decorated golf carts parade in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the year when trailer campers gathered up their money and
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
