By Jane Smith
Two areas of Delray Beach may soon see new grocery stores in their neighborhoods.
In the south side of the city, a type of Whole Foods Market likely will open in late 2018 in Lavers International Plaza.
The Delray Beac
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By Mary Hladky
New laws and funding are in place to crack down on the addiction treatment industry and fight the opioid crisis in Florida.
Gov. Rick Scott on June 26 signed
Two south county coastal cities are reining in rogue sober homes by strengthening their group homes ordinances.
Boynton Beach will hold a public hearing July 18 on these proposed changes:
• Have at least 300 feet between group homes. In June, c
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach’s long-awaited Town Square project received a cash infusion in mid-June.
City commissioners began the June 12 meeting in their usual places on the dais.
Midway through the meeting, they adjourned and switched
Lyn Tate with her dachshunds Sir Charles, 12, and Duke, 4, outside her Hypoluxo Island home.
Tate is a community activist for the island and the town of Lantana.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Getting Lyn Tate to sit still for even a short time is
Addison Mizner designed the Boynton Woman’s Club building, which opened 91 years ago.
Woman’s Club members praised the proposed $110,000 sale of the building to the city.
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By Jane Smith
The grand old dame will be in good hands
By Rich Pollack
BOCA RATON — Even in retirement, Dr. Pinghui Victor Liu remained a scientist.
A microbiologist, physician, and tenured professor at the University of Louisville, Dr. Liu was a leader in his field and in the 1960s discovered
By Emily J. Minor
GULF STREAM — Walter Helmut Baum, a well-known lifeguard at Delray Beach’s Anchor Park S5 beach lifeguard station for nearly two decades, died June 17 from complications of a stroke he suffered five days earlier. He was 55.
J
By Steven J. Smith
BOCA RATON — Bernell Stein lived a remarkably self-sufficient life marked by successful forays into retail sales, the founding of several businesses and ultimately a devotion to community service, according to her daughter, Elod
Property Matters, a real estate company with an Anglo-American team, has launched its first office
in Boca Raton with plans to expand into locations along the coast from West Palm Beach to Miami Beach.
Property Matters was founded by partners Ted Bro
By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton was the fastest-growing city in Palm Beach County last year, adding 2,570 residents.
Boynton Beach and Delray Beach also showed strong population increases from 2015 to 2016, according to U.S. Census Bureau statisti
An adult least tern offers food to a young juvenile on the beach in Boca Raton near the south edge
of Spanish River Park in mid-June. Based on the size and color of feathers, a Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
biologist estimated the youngst
Highland Beach Police Officers Dwayne Fernandes and Paul Shersty
helped rescue four people in a sinking boat on one of their days off.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
A tow boat arrives to haul in a boat that took on water about a mile off the Boynton I
By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton residents and visitors suddenly seem poised to have plenty of alternatives to driving their cars around downtown.
After talking for months about what type of transportation services should be offered to lessen traffic
By Mary Hladky
Years after the Midtown “live, work, play” development was conceived, the project is at an impasse without any of the city approvals needed to move forward.
Angelo Bianco, managing partner of developer Crocker Partners, tried to
By Steve Plunkett
Storm clouds are gathering again between the Greater Boca Raton Beach & Park District and the city of Boca Raton.
The cause of the renewed friction is the continuing failure of the two governments to hammer out a master in
By Rich Pollack
Small coastal communities in South Palm Beach County continued to have few serious crimes in 2016, with most experiencing crime decreases last year, according to statistics released last month by the Florida Department of Law Enfo
By Steve Plunkett
It’s no secret Boca Raton loves its longtime city manager. Ditto for the city attorney.
City Manager Leif Ahnell presented the City Council a four-page list detailing 150 projects and activities he oversaw the last fiscal y
By Rich Pollack
Completion of a new luxury condominium complex as well as several large new homes has helped push property values in Highland Beach to record levels, surpassing those set prior to the economic downturn that began in 2008.
The P
Caitlin Bovery, sea turtle rehabilitation assistant coordinator, records a video of Gumbo Limbo senior aquarist Keith Herman
and manager Leanne Welch as they dump plastic bottles into the center’s near-shore reef aquarium.
The bottles, 70 pounds’ wor
