By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge residents soon could see tangible benefits from the Palm Beach County penny sales tax increase voters approved in November when the town begins repaving its streets.
Town engineers identified a priority list of 11
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Workers with MBR Construction use a small end-loader to remove
broken-up pieces of the sidewalk across A1A from Anchor Park.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach started working on its $3.1 million redo of the beach promenade
By Jane Smith
Boat-loving residents came to Delray Beach’s outreach meeting to hear when work would begin on raising the seawall in Veterans Park and on replacing two docks there for marine access to the Intracoastal Waterway.
The docks will be
Pete Dye was a hands-on supervisor during re-construction of the Gulf Stream Golf Club in 2013-14.
Pete and Alice with one of their dogs through the years, all named Sixty. The last Sixty died in December.
Photos provided by Ken May
The Dyes’ lifeti
By Dan Moffett
A bidding war for water customers has broken out between Manalapan and Boynton Beach, with some 550 Hypoluxo residents likely to benefit with lower monthly bills and perhaps even better service.
For decades, Manalapan has sol
William Thrasher and his wife, Phyllis, laugh at the oversized key Gulf Stream police presented him
at his retirement party. The Thrashers bought a Winnebago to tour parks across the country and lost the keys.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Steve Pl
Robert Ganger holds his Judge James R. Knott Historical Contribution Award,
flanked by J. Grier Pressly III (left), chairman of the board of the Historical Society
of Palm Beach County, and Harvey Oyer III.
Photo provided by Capehart Photography
By Amy Woods
Braman Motorcars general manager Stephen Grossman ceremoniously gave Andrew Aiken, president and CEO of the Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society, a $25,000 check as part of a multiyear commitment to support the zoo’s tiger exhibit.
The
Christina Cleveland, a certified financial planner in Boca Raton, also is busy with several charities
and her church. She lives in coastal Delray Beach. The boy in the photo on her desk is her son, Max.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
When Christina
Maurice Johnson, a Baptist pastor, has launched Mable Dean Millinery Creations at his home in Wellington. Photos by Ruth Cincotta/The Coastal Star
A retiring Boca milliner fretted about finding a suitable successor. Today, she’s brimming with pri
Gunther Volvo plans to build a 31,050-square-foot showroom-service area and three-level parking garage
on Federal Highway. Place Au Soleil homeowners fear the project will fill their neighborhood with noise and light.
Rendering courtesy City of Delra
GULF STREAM — William Paul Luke, M.D. , 89, passed away peacefully on April 25 at home in Gulf Stream, succumbing to Lou Gehrig’s disease, which he had fought for 15 years. Not a record, but he tried.
He was eased on his way by his loving ca
By Emily J. Minor
BOYNTON BEACH — Susan Eileen (McDonald) Norton, whose good manners and slight frame often belied her stubbornness, true grit and power on the tennis court, died last month after fighting a rare cancer that showed itself last May,
The local chapter of National Society of Arts and Letters will host an elite ballet competition June 2 spotlighting 17 young dancers vying for a $12,000 prize. ABOVE: Co-chairwoman Alyce Erickson and chapter executives Brian Edwards and Shari Upbin w
The conceptual plan features a five-story glass City Hall attached to the existing city library.
Part of the library would become a City Hall addition. Across Ocean Avenue
from the proposed City Hall is the historic high school. This view is
looking
Impact 100 Palm Beach County had its sixth annual ceremony awarding high-impact, $100,000 grants in each of five focus areas: arts and culture; education; environment; family; and health and wellness. Out of an initial 61 applicants, a total of 27 se
Members of the Delray Beach Initiative met for some miniature golf fun to raise money for Atlantic Community High School. More than $5,000 in proceeds will be used for college-prep courses for students who otherwise would not be able to afford them.
A crowd of 500-plus attended a high-energy affair benefiting the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County. The audience welcomed to the stage Brett Ratner, a Miami Beach native who is a successful movie director and has more than $1 billion in bo
Nearly 130 guests celebrated the 13th annual event, which raised $140,000 for Women’s Circle. They enjoyed a cocktail hour with a silent auction, dinner, music and a program. Highlights included a guest appearance by French-American artist Duaiv, who
With its White Party theme and gourmet-style comfort food, Caffe Luna Rosa made the ninth annual eating affair an evening to remember for its 110 guests, all wearing white. Seated at 18 reserved tables stretched along the closed roadway, they enjoyed
