Three-foot-long iguanas run along a dock in Highland Beach.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Cheryl Blackerby
Green iguanas are not your unobtrusive 5-inch garden lizards that scurry across sidewalks and terraces.
An iguana, which can grow to 6
Police aren’t sure of the gun’s age or history.
Photo provided
By Ron Hayes
A little before 10 a.m. on Nov. 10, a maintenance worker helping to usher in a sparkling new future at Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club stumbled on a rusty piece of the pa
Tire tracks lead to a pentagram vandalized in Sanborn Square. The pentagram was repaired
and reinstalled Dec. 28. It was vandalized again early Jan. 2.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Sallie James
A satanic pentagram with a banner disavowing the e
By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton city officials have nearly reached the end of a tumultuous process to better define what developers can and can’t count as open space in downtown projects.
The City Council, sitting as the Community Redevelopment Agenc
An artist’s rendering shows the buildings in the Via Mizner complex at Federal Highway and Camino Real.
From left are the Mandarin Oriental Residences and Hotel and the recently completed luxury apartment building.
Rendering provided by Penn-Florida
The Police Department’s new message board cost about $16,000 and was paid for by the nonprofit
Highland Beach Police Foundation. Besides its message capabilities, the unit can measure
vehicle numbers and speeds at various times, helping the departme
By Steve Plunkett
Renovation of the science playground at Sugar Sand Park hit a last-minute delay in December when workers found three multilevel wood posts showing signs of rot below the surface.
“Unfortunately that is going to add another tim
Under the branches of a trio of Gumbo Limbo trees, a family takes advantage of the recently reopened boardwalk.
The project cost $630,810, paid for by the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District. The boardwalk
closed in February 2015 when engineer
By Steve Plunkett
After 4½ years, commissioners of the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District decided to drop the “interim” part of interim Executive Director Arthur Koski’s title.
“I think you all will agree with me that Mr. Koski has done
By Rich Pollack
Some Bel Lido residents wondered why a water main replacement project started two weeks before the Christmas holiday. But Highland Beach officials said they had good reason: The construction firm had to meet a tight deadline and th
By Rich Pollack
As the town of Highland Beach continues to revamp its code-enforcement process, discussions over whether to bring in a special magistrate to hear code-enforcement cases stalled early this month when commissioners couldn’t agree on
Math, science, art
and other skills grow as students
tend garden at Delray school.
Adrian Burke (left) and Zane Lingmerth stretch string to delineate 1-foot garden spaces
at Plumosa School of the Arts in Delray Beach. The kids learn that all they ne
By Ron Hayes
The Religious Society of Friends was born in 1650 on a hill in Lancashire, England, when a young man named George Fox had a revelation.
Christ could be known directly, by anyone, anywhere, any time, without the intercession of orda
By Janis Fontaine
First Presbyterian Church of Delray Beach continues its Distinguished Preacher Series with an appearance by Dr. William Carl III on Jan. 22.
Carl is the senior pastor of the 2,200-member Independent Presbyterian Church in Bi
Greg Quattlebaum and Jibby Ciric, co-chairs of the annual Heroes Awards.
Photo provided
Palm Beach County Medical Society Services is asking for nominations of Palm Beach County individuals, organizations and businesses that have used their skill
Christine King works with Delray Beach resident Kari Shipley at King’s studio
in Boynton Beach. King walks with the aid of high-tech braces on her calves.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Lona O'Connor
As Christine King sits on the breezy pool de
Teach your pets new tricks to work their brains. The author’s cat, Casey,
learned how to walk and then jump through a hoop.
Arden Moore and her dog, Kona. Bolster your bond with your pet by talking and singing to him.
Photos provided
By Arden Moore
Middle-school students conducted a monthlong food drive to benefit WPTV-Ch. 5’s Food for Families
community outreach program. They donated nonperishables such as bagged rice, dried beans, canned meats,
soups and vegetables to help less fortunate peop
Cormorants line the side of a pond near the clubhouse of the Country Club of Florida,
a certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary in the Village of Golf.
A great egret and a roseate spoonbill work the shallow waters looking for a meal.
INSET BELOW: The
A Pioneer Son at Sea,
by Gilbert L. Voss,
University Press of Florida (www.upf.com), 200 pp, $19.95.
By Willie Howard
Gilbert Voss was a Renaissance man of the South Florida fishing variety.
Born in Hypoluxo to pioneer parents, Voss fished commer
