By Steve Plunkett
Improvements to Wildflower, South Beach, Spanish River, Palmetto Dune and Red Reef parks will cost $9.6 million to $13.3 million, the city’s waterfront parks consultant says.
The estimates do not include possibly buying another 0.7
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By Steve Plunkett
Standing outside the courtroom, former Ocean Ridge Vice Mayor Richard Lucibella could not hide his disappointment at having to wait 10 more weeks for his felony trial to begin.
He and defense attorney Heidi Perlet appeared for a cal
By Mary Hladky
Ocean Ridge resident Edward Siedle, the president of Benchmark Financial Services Inc., is in line to receive a second major whistleblower award.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission informed him in February that he will receive $3
Highland Beach voters will elect a town commissioner from among four candidates and a vice mayor from two running. Both seats are three-year terms. Voters also will decide on whether to fund the construction of a streetscape improvement project at a
In the days after the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, students from south Palm Beach County schools, including Boca High, West Boca High and Atlantic High in Delray Beach, conducted walkouts and marches in s
Three candidates vie for two commission seats | RESULTS
By Dan Moffett
Three candidates for two Ocean Ridge Town Commission seats made their cases to voters during a 90-minute forum Feb. 21 sponsored by the League of Women Voters.
Incumbent Gail Ada
Four candidates running for one commission seat | RESULTS
Two vie to be vice mayor| RESULTS
Streetscape Project | RESULTS
By Rich Pollack
When voters in Highland Beach take to the polls March 13, they’ll be choosing from six candidates who all say r
An incumbent is running against a political newcomer to be the town’s second-in-command. — Steven J. Smith
County officials hail ninth straight year of record numbers
Visitors fill the lobby of the 200-room Hyatt Place in downtown Boca Raton in February. The hotel reported a strong first year; it opened in December 2016. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
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Boca Raton is governed by a five-member City Council elected at large to designated seats on a nonpartisan basis. The mayor and council members are elected for three-year terms. Members who have served two consecutive terms are not eligible to be ele
By Jane Smith
Hudson Holdings was so confident that the City Commission would postpone reviewing its Midtown Delray project that it printed fliers with the new date: March 6.
“In mutual agreement with the City and in the best interest of Midtown Delra
By Dan Moffett
Early findings from an engineering consultant are helping to explain why the Inlet Cay neighborhood in Ocean Ridge is prone to street flooding.
After studying the drainage system on the 16-acre island, Robert Higgins told town commiss
Three candidates compete for Seat D | RESULTS
By Steve Plunkett
If campaign contribution dollars were votes, Deputy Mayor Jeremy Rodgers would be the shoo-in for the March 13 City Council election.
As of Feb. 9, Rodgers
An incumbent is running against a political newcomer for the second council seat in Boca Raton. — Steven J. Smith
LANTANA — Edith “Edie” Hamm Ruh died on Jan. 29. She was 89 years old.
Edie Ryan entered the world Dec. 12, 1928, the daughter of Bertie and Arthur Ryan, in Washington’s Crossing, N.J. She spent a seemingly idyllic childhood chasing her two older brot
By Ron Hayes
DELRAY BEACH — Back in the late 1980s, when Canning Shoes had already been a landmark on East Atlantic Avenue for nearly four decades, Vince Canning introduced a new policy.
Bring in a pair of old shoes and he would give you $10 off your
By Steve Plunkett
Town commissioners in February continued a new crusade against approving “discouraged” elements in house plans, sending a proposal that already had been rejected once by the Architectural Review and Planning Board back to the archit
By Steve Plunkett
State transportation officials planned to open two more ramps on Interstate 95’s new interchange at Spanish River Boulevard.
The Florida Department of Transportation scheduled a ribbon-cutting ceremony to unveil the interchange on F
The home Tom Ambrose and his wife built in 1990 is inspired by the seven years they spent living in Indonesia, where Ambrose worked as a geologist. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Brian Biggane
A desk job in New York City was never going to sit right
By Mary Thurwachter
The Lantana Town Council, at its Feb. 26 meeting, approved a collective bargaining agreement between the town and the Palm Beach County Police Benevolent Association. The agreement, which reflects an overall 5 percent salary incre
