By Rich Pollack
HIGHLAND BEACH — On Highland Beach’s Intracoastal Drive in the town’s tight-knit Bel Lido community, Erin Kane Rodriguez was known as a fun-loving neighbor, a rising young tennis star and an athlete full of energy, who always took
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By Emily J. Minor
MANALAPAN — Fred R. Marcon, the son of Italian immigrants who grew to great success in business, faith and family, died Jan. 19 in the Manalapan home he’d built for his wife, who died five years ago. He was 79. Mr. Marcon was
By Emily J. Minor
GULF STREAM — Linda Ann Grantham Bryan, a Memphis-born adventurer who moved to the Philadelphia area with her parents as a child and kept a home there all her life, died unexpectedly Dec. 23. She was 78.
Mrs. Bryan’s daughter
Acklen Dunning of Delray Beach displays jewelry from her new line of collar necklaces.
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Eight years ago, when Acklen Dunning fell in love with a beautiful gemstone necklace that she saw in a fashion magazine, she had a
By Ron Hayes
OCEAN RIDGE — Bill Finley died while putting the finishing touches on a science fiction novel called Saving the Moon.
He’d already made his mark on Earth. At his death from congestive heart failure on Jan. 25, Mr. Finley lef
Marcela Carneiro Millett, of Palm Beach County Human Services, speaks with a homeless man
at The Caring Kitchen in Delray Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
One woman at The Caring Kitchen said she was to blame for her homelessn
The Naoma Donnelley Haggin Boys & Girls Club’s 14th holiday vendor sale helped support
programming for more than 400 children in South County. Two hundred-plus guests attended
the opening night reception, and more shoppers stopped by the next two day
By Rich Pollack
A war of words between a candidate for Highland Beach Town Commission and the leader of the church that is the town’s only polling location prompted town leaders to move the March 14 election to Town Hall.
In a 3-2 vote late l
Emmanuel Tinebra and Donniel Busey (right), owners of Posh for Hair in Manalapan,
bought the salon in January 2016 and recently oversaw its makeover.
The salon has been in business for more than 30 years.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Amy Woods
Las Ventanas has been sold to Pollack Shores Real Estate Group
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By Christine Davis
Las Ventanas, a mixed-use development on 15 acres in Boynton Beach, sold for $109.31 million in mid-December. Prudential Insurance Company of America
By Steve Plunkett
A group led by a former Chamber of Commerce president wants a judge to overturn Boca Raton’s new ordinance reserving city-owned land along the Intracoastal Waterway for public uses only.
ForBoca.org Inc., which in a lawsui
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach Town Commissioner Carl Feldman wants to make sure a large chunk of county-owned property at the south end of town known as Milani Park doesn’t become Milani parking lot.
Feldman, who is running for mayor in March
By Steve Plunkett
Now it’s 20 months and counting.
Boca Raton City Council members canceled a Jan. 30 joint meeting with Greater Boca Raton Beach & Park District commissioners. It would have been the first time the boards got together since Jun
By Steve Plunkett
The city’s dredge contractor is back to work on a beach renourishment project between the Boca Raton Inlet and Red Reef Park.
Weeks Marine Inc. left Boca Raton in April after weather delays let it finish only about 20 per
By Steve Plunkett
Two months after he bought his $1.6 million waterfront home on a canal west of the Intracoastal Waterway, Jason Pepitone got a letter from Boca Raton code enforcement.
An outdoor kitchen in the corner of his back yard was
By Steve Plunkett
The races are on.
All three races are contested in Boca Raton’s municipal election and candidates are building sizable war chests to fund their campaigns.
Voters will choose their mayor and two City Council members when the
By Rich Pollack
Efforts by at least one Highland Beach resident and town leaders to improve pedestrian safety at crosswalks on State Road A1A appear to be paying off.
Last month, consultants hired by the Florida Department of Transportation co
By Jane Smith
The three largest South County cities continue on separate paths to address problematic sober homes in their residential neighborhoods.
On Jan. 17, Boynton Beach city commissioners approved a moratorium on all group home appli
Attorney Marc Shiner, former Vice Mayor Richard Lucibella and his girlfriend, Barbara Ceuleers,
make their way to Circuit Judge Charles Burton’s courtroom.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
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Neighbors’ resistance grows as Tri-Rail faces funding deadline
By Mary Hladky
Four years after Crocker Partners began conceiving a massive development project east of the Town Center at Boca Raton mall, the developer is now moving ahead to trans
