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By Mary Hladky
Previous efforts to crack down on unscrupulous drug treatment centers and sober homes have largely languished in the Florida Legislature.
But that cha
By Steve Plunkett
A proposed three-story garage that Place Au Soleil feared would bring unwelcome noise and light will instead be a concrete reminder of good-neighborliness.
Eleventh-hour negotiations between Gulf Stream and Gunther Volv
By Dan Moffett
The landlords of Manalapan’s Plaza del Mar hoped to be knocking down buildings to make way for a new Publix by now.
They’re not, for two reasons: The supermarket chain’s architects haven’t been able to design a sign that is taste
By Dan Moffett
The prospect of lower rates and improved customer relations was enough to persuade Hypoluxo council members to end a decades-old relationship with Manalapan and switch to Boynton Beach for water services.
On May 17, the Town Coun
By Steve Plunkett
A new potential for heavy growth on Federal Highway at the Woolbright Road and Ocean Avenue intersections has the barrier island-based Florida Coalition for Preservation sounding the alarms.
Boynton Beach has changed its c
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
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.
Tom Warnke/The Coastal Star
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.”
