Voters in Gulf Stream will elect all five members of the Town Commission on March 14. Commissioners each serve a three-year term and this is an at-large election. The top five vote getters will win the seats, with no runoffs. Once elected, the co
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Former Ocean Ridge police Lt. Steve Wohlfiel talks with his attorney, Ralph King, at a special commission meeting called to confirm Wohlfiel’s firing. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Dan Moffett
Former police Lt. Steve Wohlfiel wants Ocean Ridg
By Steve Plunkett
Neighbors of former Vice Mayor Richard Lucibella who answered police questions the night of his arrest and then answered questions for an Ocean Ridge police internal investigation are finding they will spend more time answering
By Steve Plunkett
Martin O’Boyle, who has plastered Gulf Stream with public-records requests and lawsuits over the past four years, is running a second time for a seat on the Town Commission.
O’Boyle, whose entry in 2014 made that election
By Steve Plunkett
Town commissioners promised their Place Au Soleil constituents they would throw their weight behind an effort to block Gunther Volvo from building a three-story garage next to them in neighboring Delray Beach.
“We are extr
Penny Davidson, known around South Palm Beach as the town’s unofficial artist-in-residence,
unveiled her latest mosaic on Feb. 24. Davidson has created dozens of public art pieces
installed throughout the town over the years and says this one depicts
By Jane Smith
Max Lohman continues to impress the Delray Beach city commissioners with his legal knowledge, leadership skills and willingness to answer their questions. At the Feb. 21 City Commission meeting, he gave the update he promised when h
Additional parking will ease a space crunch.
Rendering by Currie Sowards Aguila Architects
By Jane Smith
Presbyterian parishioners will soon have a more comfortable church-going experience on the barrier island.
The First Presbyterian Chu
By Dan Moffett
There will be no March election in Manalapan because all Town Commission candidates went unopposed.
But residents will see a sweeping overhaul of government leadership just the same.
Three new commissioners, a new mayor a
By Dan Moffett
A divided South Palm Beach Town Council grudgingly voted to give itself a modest pay raise on Feb. 28, ending months of vacillation and often spirited debate.
With final approval of the new ordinance, council members will see
By Dan Moffett
Manalapan town commissioners will be watching election results in Hypoluxo on March 14 with unusual interest — and unusual impatience.
The resolution of the Hypoluxo mayor’s race will enable the towns to resume talks over a ne
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach, which had three lawyers on its five-member City Commission, will lose that majority with the March 14 election.
No lawyers are running for two open seats.
Vice Mayor Jordana Jarjura, general counsel at Gulf Build
Ocean Ridge’s elections will fill the Town Commission seat held by James Bonfiglio and an open seat formerly held by Richard Lucibella, who resigned in December. The term length is three years.
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Richard Bajaki
By Mary Thurwachter
Lantana said no to a crossing agreement with Florida East Coast Railway and All Aboard Florida.
“This has to do with a second line for All Aboard Florida that they are going to be running through our town,” Mayor Dave Stewa
Lantana voters will choose from two candidates for each of two council seats. The town has no term limits. Term is three years.
Council Group 3
Tom Deringer
(incumbent) Personal: 63; attended the University of Kentucky, but did not graduate; 36
By Dan Moffett
Briny Breezes Mayor Mike Hill says the Town Council doesn’t need him anymore and his grandchildren in the Midwest do. So it’s time to go.
Hill announced his resignation Feb. 23, and with a wave and a smile, told council member
The city of Delray Beach’s municipal election will take place March 14, as six candidates will compete for two seats on the City Commission. The winners will serve three-year terms. Despite many phone calls and emails, seat 2 candidate Richard A
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge voters will select two town commissioners from a field of four candidates running in the March 14 municipal election.
All are familiar faces in the community.
Incumbent Vice Mayor James Bonfiglio is seeking a s
Two Lantana Council members will face opposition from political newcomers in the March 14 election.
Vice Mayor Philip Aridas, who has served on the council since 2011, is being challenged by Suzanne Gordon, 38. She is a stay-at-home mom and Re
Dorinda Burroughs and her therapy dog, Ginny, work with children
in the after-school program at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Delray Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Dorinda Burroughs dedicated much of her career to improving children’s live
