By Janis Fontaine
The Jewish Women’s Foundation of South Palm Beach County will host its 2017 Granting Wishes award announcements and reception at 5:30 p.m. March 15, at Boca Rio Golf Club, 22041 Boca Rio Road in Boca Raton.
The guest speaker
The Plate: Bahamian Conch Chowder
The Place: Granger’s Grille, 802 SE Fifth Ave., Delray Beach; 276-7881 or www.grangersgrille.com.
The Price: $5
The skinny: This month’s Plate actually is a bowl.
Well, it’s a cup, if you’re going to get technical.
But
Dervi Ganesh-Baluyot and her father, Selva Ganesh, are surrounded by snapshots of newborns
he has delivered in his decades as an OB/GYN physician. The family’s practice is in Boynton Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Lona O'Connor
From an e
By Christine Davis
Effective March 1, in-home caregivers must have licenses in their possession while working. For each violation, they will be subject to fines and/or imprisonment.
It’s the latest part of the Palm Beach County Home Caregiver
The Last Rhino, by James Gardner; Pennington Publishers, 274 pp, $14.95
By Steve Pike
James Gardner has been to Africa 27 times since 1968. The trophies mounted on the wall and the cases of African masks and artifacts in the den of his Ocean Ridge
Christine Johnson (left) shows a visiting family the Children’s Museum butterfly garden,
including a 2-foot-wide kinetic sculpture metal butterfly.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
The next time you are near the
5 not-to-miss spots on East Ocean Avenue in Lantana
Story by Mary Thurwachter
Photos by Ruth Cincotta
Some say Lantana is a quaint drinking village with a fishing problem. You can get a feel for both west of the bridge on East Ocean Avenue, the town’s
Luciana Gilman, of Loxahatchee, finds Ruby, left, and Sonny good company.
Together, the pigs weigh 150 pounds. A potbellied pig can reach 200 pounds.
Photo by Ximena Olds
By Arden Moore
The majority of the pet columns I’ve penned for The Coastal
Peek inside 10 of Delray Beach’s
most beautiful coastal homes
during the annual home tour.
A nook in the upstairs guest suite at Steve and Lori Leveen’s house combines tongue-and-groove ceiling,
open beams and a nautical feel to complement its Intrac
Students participated in an annual event in which all grade levels run, walk and navigate
an obstacle course to raise awareness of the importance of fitness and funds for the school’s new playground.
An informative lecture from parent Lew Gallego (le
More than 160 St. Andrew’s School students worked to package single-serving meals.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Janis Fontaine
Marissa Govic’s goal is to feed hungry children. She’s using all her talents — and they’re considerable — to achieve
The Metropulos brothers — Nick, left, and Lucas — have operated the nonprofit fishing
and environmental education organization Fishing for Families in Need based at St. Andrew’s School
in Boca Raton since 2007. This photo was taken in January, when t
More than 350 cyclists, runners and walkers -- including (l-r) Kendall Apte, Susan Tusting
and Margaret Blume -- turned out for the annual fundraiser that had cyclists pedaling 40 miles
and runners and walkers doing 3.1 miles. There also was a 1-mile
By Rich Pollack
A memorial service will be held Feb. 26 for Highland Beach Town Commissioner Lou Stern, who died Feb. 8 following a short battle with kidney disease. He was 82.
The service will be held at Gutterman-Warheit Memorial Chapel, 240 Nort
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge commissioners decided to postpone an appeal hearing for fired police Lt. Steve Wohlfiel after his attorney filed suit, charging the town had violated his rights and denied him due process.
In a declaratory judgment comp
By Steve Plunkett
The Federation of Boca Raton Homeowner Associations is inviting voters to a forum of candidates for mayor and City Council Feb. 6.
The federation meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. with council candidates taking questions at 7 p.m. and
Locally produced balm sweetens
sea turtles’ recovery at Gumbo Limbo
Caitlin Bovery, sea turtle rehabilitation assistant coordinator, rubs dark, raw honey on Blitzen,
an ill adult loggerhead turtle, at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center.
The honey speeds heal
The 2016 elections are over. Now on to 2017. The March 14 municipal elections are right around the corner.
In Boca Raton the candidate qualification period has ended, so you may already be noticing yard signs. In our other coastal municipalit
Ben Hicks uses his photos to raise awareness of sea turtles.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
A photo by Hicks showing a green sea turtle coming to the surface to breathe.
By Rich Pollack
Ben Hicks knows when sea turtles don’t mind him swimming besid
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge commissioners have decided to let the voters choose who should fill the seat vacated by former Vice Mayor Richard Lucibella, who resigned in December after prosecutors filed three charges against him stemming from an all
