By Steve Plunkett
A four-year saga over public records that included demands for hundreds of documents and caused Gulf Stream to raise property taxes 40 percent is half-over.
Resident Chris O'Hare and the town agreed June 9 to settle all legal differ
How a tragedy sparked the move to build
what is now Boca Raton Regional Hospital
Boca Raton Regional Hospital today.
Gloria Drummond at the 1965 groundbreaking for the hospital.
By Sallie James
The horrific poisoning deaths of two children and
By Steve Plunkett
Following the sweeping November victory of a citizen initiative to reserve all city-owned land on the Intracoastal Waterway for public uses, the City Council has introduced an ordinance to change the Wildflower parcel’s land
Families enjoy the Children’s Science Playground at Sugar Sand Park in Boca Raton on May 26.
The playground had more than 54,000 visitors in April.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Steve Plunkett
The construction crew refurbishing the Children
By Mary Hladky
City Council members are leaning toward an on-demand ride service as an alternative transportation option that would lessen downtown traffic congestion by getting people out of their cars.
At a meeting May 8, they backed away fro
By Rich Pollack
After months of lobbying by town officials and at least one persistent resident, Highland Beach’s efforts to improve pedestrian safety at crosswalks have prompted a Florida Department of Transportation decision to implement enhance
The plans for the 384-unit Mizner 200 condo complex have been through a few revisions.
Rendering provided
By Mary Hladky
Nearly three years after a developer first proposed a luxury condominium now named Mizner 200, the city’s most controversia
By Rich Pollack
Hampered by the need for Town Commission approval for many actions and by Florida’s Sunshine Law, members of Highland Beach’s Beaches and Shores Committee are asking that the group be dissolved as an official town board in order to
A least tern sits on eggs on the beach in Boca Raton.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission workers and Gumbo Limbo staff
make signs for a perimeter fence to deter beachgoers from walking on the nest.
The dappled color of the eggs is a go
A photograph shows 107-year-old Eula Mae Johnson of Delray Beach as a young woman.
Eula Mae Johnson (seated) is surrounded by granddaughters Bernice Johnson,
Shannon Johnson and Naomi Palmer and daughter Ruthie.
Johnson’s voter registration card show
By Sallie James
A 900-car garage will eventually ease the parking crunch at Boca Raton Regional Hospital, despite nearby homeowners’ concerns about noise, pollution and crime.
City Council members last month unanimously voted to move the pro
May and early June have been a busy time for driving obstacles.
In Ocean Ridge there have been lane restrictions because of painting and repairs on both the Woolbright and Ocean Avenue bridges, combined with stop-and-start traffic caused by F
South Palm Beach honored those who served with a Memorial Day program also dedicated
to two former Town Council members: Woody Gorbach, a World War II veteran who died
in October, and Vice Mayor Dr. Joe Flagello, who died suddenly in March. ABOVE: Me
Neil and Doris Gillman are sponsoring a program that provides cribs, bedding and other supplies
for newborns of mothers in need at Boca Raton Regional Hospital.
Photo provided
By Janis Fontaine
Neil Gillman said it took his wife, Doris, about
By Mary Hladky
Ten years after housing prices began cratering in the Great Recession, taxable property values in Palm Beach County have zoomed past their previous record high set in 2007.
While the previous peak was $169.4 billion before t
Exhibit sprouts from fortunate photo find
Nancy, Leila and Dorothy Pierson (l-r) display decorated coconuts at their roadside ‘Cocoanut Stand,’
possibly to raise money for the Red Cross during World War I.
A hand-tinted photograph of what is now Stat
By Dan Moffett
South Palm Beach Police Chief Carl Webb says morale among officers is better now than at any other time during his 28 years with the department.
“It’s a pleasure now instead of a war,” Webb told the Town Council on May 16. “Histo
By Willie Howard
A Boca Raton-based environmental consulting firm has taken over monitoring sea turtle nests on South Palm Beach, ending decades of monitoring by Robert Schonfeld, also known as the “turtle man.” Schonfeld started monitoring sea
By Steve Plunkett
Gulf Stream Town Hall version 2.0 is on its way.
A 24-foot-wide by 29-foot-deep addition on the west side of the building will provide new offices for the town manager and Gulf Stream’s staff attorney as well as additional
Two south county coastal cities continue to see rising numbers of drug overdoses along with increasing fatalities.
In Boynton Beach, police responded to 398 overdoses in 2016 resulting in 35 deaths.
As of May 22, Boynton Beach police responded
