By Steve Plunkett
Commissioners of the Greater Boca Raton Beach & Park District and the city’s parks director used unanticipated savings on health care costs and some financial sleight of hand to come up with a fiscal 2018 budget proposal with whi
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By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach’s efforts to enhance safety and aesthetics by replacing a 3-mile long walking path and improving the surrounding areas finally gained traction this year with the formation of an Ad Hoc Citizens Streetscape Committee, but
Team Tuppens members Christopher Sprague, 12, Steve Sprague and Mike Folsom show off some of their catch. Christopher’s 6.2-pound dolphin netted him the prize for top junior angler. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Aaron Budney checks one of the hives he keeps at his mother’s home west of Lake Worth. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
Catnip bores them.They don’t chirp. Wouldn’t fetch a stick to save your life. And they sometimes kill.
Why in
Underwater photographer Sandra Edwards shows a photo of a goliath grouper nicknamed Wilbur that stays around the M/V Castor wreck off Boynton Beach. She was one of many divers who came to a July 31 Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission meet
K-9 officer Duke of the Boynton Beach Police Department with Dr. Melanie Thomas at Coral Springs Animal Hospital. Photo provided
By Arden Moore
Sometimes, the dangers facing K-9 police dogs can be invisible but still very deadly. But thanks to a par
After 25 years of service as the senior minister and CEO for Unity of Delray Beach, the Rev. Nancy Norman, the face of Unity and a resident of Boynton Beach, retired on Aug. 20.
Norman came from California to serve the spiritual community in Delray B
Tour leader Meridith Hootstein gets the group off to a healthy start with a short session of yoga and relaxation.
By Lona O'Connor
They hunted. They gathered. They tramped the streets of downtown Boca Raton in 85-degree heat. This intrepid group of
Boca Raton Regional Hospital chalked up several honors recently. First, it was named a top-ranked regional hospital in U.S. News & World Report’s 2017–2018 annual review of best hospitals. It’s ranked 16th out of approximately 300 hospitals in Florid
Checks from the Feb. 8 Ride 4 Orphans were awarded to Place of Hope at the Leighan and David Rinker Campus and 4 Kids of South Florida. The annual ride raises money for Spanish River Church’s orphan projects. (l-r) Matheus Macedo, first-place finishe
By Janis Fontaine
Attention local high schools with theater programs:
Applications are being accepted through mid-September from high schools that want to have their theater programs participate in the first-ever Dream Awards, a program sponsor
Boca West Foundation provided a free golf camp to 50 children from the Boys & Girls Club of Boca Raton and the Wayne Barton Study Center this summer. In all, the foundation funded programs for 1,250 low-income children at seven camps, including tenni
By Janis Fontaine
The holiest day of the Jewish year is approaching.
Yom Kippur, which starts the evening of Sept. 29, is a solemn day for reflection, a day of atonement. It follows 10 days after Rosh Hashana, which marks the new year.
But
Chaim Romano (l-r), Daniel Kay and Ben Scheiner started a Moishe House in Delray Beach to give young Jewish professionals a place to network with people of similar minds. The house is the third of its kind in Florida. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
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Boynton Beach residents Brandon Hill and Julia Calderon celebrate Hill’s 31st birthday with friends Jordan Merritt and Crystal Law at The Melting Pot in Boca Raton. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
This month, restaurants from Boca Raton to Palm Beach a
Rotary Club of Delray Beach President Fred Bonardi passed the gavel to President-Elect John Fischer and thanked members for their exemplary service during the 2016-17 season. Ernie Simon was recognized for 50 years of perfect attendance. Roger Cain
Buddy Walk … Uncorked kicked off the 23rd annual Buddy Walk in style, raising nearly $3,000 for the Gold Coast Down Syndrome Organization Resource Center. Sixty-plus supporters attended the party, which featured food, wine, auctions and a raffle. ‘It
Barb Schmidt will be honorary chairwoman of the Junior League of Boca Raton’s Woman Volunteer of the Year Luncheon, set for Oct. 5. Past President Kirsten Stanley will serve as event chairwoman. The affair (this year is its 30th) is considered one of
Theatre Lab, Florida Atlantic University’s professional production company dedicated to the development of new work in American stage, has landed its first corporate donor. SunTrust joined the Theatre Lab Inner Circle, created to raise private suppor
More than 250 supporters gathered in celebration of the 2017 Golden Bell Education Foundation fundraiser and the nonprofit’s 26th anniversary. The occasion also marked the sixth anniversary of the Inner Circle Executive Club.
Guests enjoyed cockta
