By Emily J. Minor
BOCA RATON — Dr. Samuel S. Stephenson III, who picked up his wife and two small children in 1968 to move to Florida and help lead a fairly new college called Florida Atlantic University, died June 21 in hospice care. He was 93.Bo
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By Dan Moffett
Manalapan is stepping up efforts to block a proposed beach stabilization project that would install concrete groins to capture sand in South Palm Beach.
On
Hudson Holdings
The Delray Beach developer specializes in “bringing history back to life,” according to its website. Here’s a look at its properties outside Florida:
Louisville, Kentucky: Republic Building (built in 1912) — Hudson paid slightly more
By Steve Plunkett
The legal battle between Gulf Stream and town resident Martin O’Boyle dragged on in July as O’Boyle conducted a 90-minute deposition in his home and his son filed a motion seeking a “6-foot pile” of documents in a New Jersey lawy
By Jane Smith
Hudson Holdings had its attorney write a warning letter to a state board, threatening to file an injunction unless it delayed the National Register review of the Old School Square Historic Arts District, said a principal of the Delra
By Jane Smith
The beach promenade work is progressing, evidenced in the tricolor “waves” in the sidewalk on the southern half of the municipal beach.
The street-side wave is tan concrete; the middle wave sports a chocolate brown color. The wave
By Jane Smith
Without seeing a budget, city commissioners agreed to lower the property tax rate slightly for the financial year that begins Oct. 1 while still expecting to take in an estimated $4.6 million more in tax revenues.
Delray Beach fin
By Steve Plunkett
The lawyer in the felony case against former Ocean Ridge Vice Mayor Richard Lucibella has rescheduled depositions of town officials and the police for late August.
Defense attorney Marc Shiner will depose arresting officers Nubia
Recent estimates suggest that as many as half of local arts journalism jobs in America have disappeared over the past decade. In South Florida I’d suggest that proportion is even higher.
Yes, there are a few local bloggers who will tell you ab
By Dan Moffett
Two recent mediation sessions have done little to resolve lawsuits filed by developer William Swaim against the town of Ocean Ridge and Wellington Arms condominium owners.
For the last three years, Swaim has been trying to persua
By Dan Moffett
Recurring accounting problems in Ocean Ridge’s budgets have strained relations between Town Manager Jamie Titcomb and the Town Commission.
So much so that the commission approved a proposal from Commissioner Steve Coz to chan
By Steve Plunkett
Buoyed by its recent settlement of all public records litigation by resident Chris O’Hare, the town plans to cut its legal budget for the coming fiscal year by 30 percent.
Gulf Stream will set aside $400,000 for outside leg
This building would be constructed at the southwest corner of Atlantic and Swinton avenues
Historic homes would line Swinton.
Renderings/Randall Stofft Architects
Related stories: Builder seeks to block historic designation for district | Hudson Ho
By Jane Smith
Without seeing a budget, city commissioners agreed to lower the property tax rate slightly for the financial year that begins Oct. 1 while still expecting to take in an estimated $4.6 million more in tax revenues.
Delray Beach
Margaret Blume is donating almost $1 million for an interior renovation at the museum. Tim Stepien/ The Coastal Star
By Mary Thurwachter
When it comes to backing projects, philanthropist Margaret Blume subscribes to marine conservationist Jacqu
By Steve Plunkett
One of the Ocean Ridge police officers who charged then-Vice Mayor Richard Lucibella with resisting arrest with violence last October did not make the same charge stick in a second, unrelated case.
The State Attorney’s Office
By Jane Smith
Beleaguered by increasing overdoses in the city and receiving little help from state and federal agencies, Delray Beach leaders plan to sue big drug makers. They want to offset the financial drain on their public safety budget of res
By Mary Thurwachter
The tide is turning in Lantana, where the tax rate has remained at $3.24 per $1,000 of taxable value for 10 years. At its July 10 meeting, the Town Council set the proposed rate for 2017-2018 at $3.50.
The lone dissenter in
By Mary Thurwachter
There’s a new restaurant on the horizon for Ocean Avenue. While all the details haven’t been revealed, Lantana Town Council members learned at their July 24 meeting that the eatery will fill the space previously occupied by Pae
By Jane Smith
Two large coastal cities in southern Palm Beach County passed group homes regulations in mid-July.
The new rules, designed to rein in rogue operators of sober homes while preserving the single-family character of neighborhoods, co
