By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge is 86 years old, essentially built-out and with a population that has stayed largely stable through the past two decades.
But this doesn’t mean the town can avoid growing pains.
Town commissioners are finding that
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By Steve Plunkett
Ocean Ridge officials have an outside attorney standing by to defend them in case former Vice Mayor Richard Lucibella makes good on his threat to sue the town for alleged police brutality.
Lucibella’s lawyer, Marc Shiner, said
Smoke-free zone signs are in place at Oceanfront Park.
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By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach has created a voluntary smoke-free zone at its Oceanfront Park.
“People will still be able to smoke in designated areas of the park.
By Mary Thurwachter
Cynthia Cain goes to the beach every day.
“I’m not much of a sunbather type of girl, but I like to walk along the shore and swim,” the Lantana resident said. “I have six grandchildren 10 and under and I like to take them, to
By Dan Moffett
The Briny Breezes Town Council is moving forward with plans to create an administrative position and to hire a part-time manager to fill it before the end of the summer.
Council President Sue Thaler said she hopes to assemble
Workshop members in Boca Raton take a walking tour of U.S. 1, also known as Federal Highway.
Workshops are set this month for Delray Beach and Boynton Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
As it stretches 42 miles from Camino Real i
By Jane Smith
The long-awaited iPic deal closed on May 16.
The developer paid $3.6 million to the Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency for 1.6 acres between Southeast Fourth and Fifth avenues, just south of Atlantic Avenue.
When com
James Blumenfeld, co-owner of Meridian Art Experience in Delray Beach’s Pineapple Grove,
displays works mainly from local artists and offers services for collectors.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
James Blumenfeld and business partner Susan Romain
By Jane Smith
With a 15-minute soliloquy, Delray Beach’s mayor cast the deciding vote to keep the Community Redevelopment Agency board independent from the City Commission.
“The hasty manner in which we got here does not produce an envi
By Steve Plunkett
Town resident Chris O’Hare’s “bad faith conduct” in seeking hundreds of public records may leave him liable for Gulf Stream’s hefty legal bill and even sanctions, a circuit judge has ruled.
In a case O’Hare filed against th
By Dan Moffett
SOUTH PALM BEACH — Mark Harris worked for 27 years as a paramedic with the Fire Department of New York, and on 9/11 arrived at Ground Zero just as the second airplane hit the tower.
Years later, after retiring to South Palm Beach
By Emily J. Minor
BOCA RATON — John R. Pisapia, a lifelong student of education who loved traveling and learning from leaders in other parts of the world, died May 2 after becoming ill last summer. He was 79.
Although unable to speak in the las
By Emily J. Minor
LANTANA — Ray Flow, the son of North Carolina tobacco sharecroppers who left his small hometown to join the service and then moved to Florida to marry, start a family and surround himself in community, died May 19.
Mr. Flow
By Jane Smith
Fourteen years after Boynton Beach installed fire hydrants in the County Pocket, its seven hydrants were finally mapped in May.
“We rely on water departments to send the information,” David Sauls, a fire safety specialist with
By Thom Smith
Humans have swum naked in Florida waters for millennia, but as the state’s 1,350 miles of coastline have become more congested, pressure has grown to “suit up.” Only one beach — Haulover in Miami — is officially “clothing optional.”
By Jane Smith
The city will still celebrate the Fourth of July while its beach promenade work continues.
“Pardon our dust,” said Stephanie Immelman, executive director of the Delray Beach Marketing Cooperative. “We will have a condensed eve
Randy Ely (left) and Nicholas Malinosky have joined Douglas Elliman to take advantage
of the brokerage’s international exposure. Their office is in Delray Beach.
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By Christine Davis
Randy Ely and Nicholas Malinosky joined Douglas E
Community Greening project
transforms rocky field into orchard
Volunteers plant mango trees for Community Greening at Catherine Strong Park in Delray Beach.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Delray Beach Deputy Vice Mayor Shirley Johnson and Gra
Louie the English bulldog listens to Kyle and Mya Laman (photo below) as they read books
to him during a Tale Waggin’ Tutor session at the downtown Boca Raton Library.
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By Arden Moore
Inside the downtown Boca Raton Library, sibling
Music therapist Howard Sherman demonstrates a Q-chord digital guitar
with students (l-r) Barbara Kennedy, Jill Gray, Cathy McCormick and Karen Martin.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Lona O'Connor
A curious shopper follows Howard Sherman into a
