By Steve Plunkett
The election to replace term-limited County Commissioner Steven Abrams isn’t until November, but already the race threatens to overshadow the March vote for two Boca Raton City Council seats.
Council member Robert Weinroth, who open
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Being a resident and a business in Palm Beach County since 1973, we have seen many local newspapers come and go in our communities — from Palm Beach to Boca Raton, from east to west.
Our
By Rich Pollack
If you’ve traveled along State Road A1A in the last several months you’ve probably seen a crew or two working on the power lines.
FPL understands that the work might slightly inconvenience residents, but the company says in the long
By Noreen Marcus and Michelle Quigley
Serious crime is uncommon in Palm Beach County’s coastal towns, and cases of resisting arrest with violence are about as rare a sight as white whales.
So the upcoming trial of former Ocean Ridge Vice Mayor Richa
By Dan Moffett
Mayor Bonnie Fischer swore in new Town Manager Majella “Mo” Thornton at the beginning of January’s council meeting and declared a fresh start for South Palm Beach as it enters the new year.
“We have now made significant changes to the
By Mary Thurwachter
Goodway Oil 902 Gas Station on South Dixie Highway in Lantana will soon add a car wash to its menu of services. And that’s not all the station will do to attract customers. It will sell fried chicken, too.
“We need something to gi
A Brightline train zips through Delray Beach at Atlantic Avenue. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
Pressure is mounting on the express passenger railroad Brightline to improve its safety efforts.
The rail service started Jan. 12 with free ri
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach appears to be shedding its image as a city full of rogue sober homes.
The city had “an explosion of flophouses” a few years ago, Chief Assistant State Attorney Al Johnson said at his office’s Sober Homes Task Force meeting
By Steve Plunkett
Outside lawyers for the town are representing Robert Ganger in a public records lawsuit seeking private emails and text messages he sent and received while he was vice mayor.
Resident Martin O’Boyle and his StopDirtyGovernment LLC w
By Jane Smith
Developers of two massive projects want to bookend the downtown core in Delray Beach.
The eastern project, Atlantic Crossing, sits on 9.2 acres at the northeast corner of Federal Highway and East Atlantic Avenue.
The $250 million proje
A couple poses outside the Seacrest Hotel, where the Delray Beach Marriott now stands, on Atlantic Avenue just west of Ocean Boulevard in the 1940s. Delray Beach Historical Society
By Jane Smith
Delray was once a farming mecca, shipping pineapples a
Stephen Schilling of Briny Breezes is a concert pianist who earned a degree in chemistry at age 30. ‘I realized, OK, I know a lot about music, but nothing about math or science,’ he says. Schilling says he’s ‘very proud of creating my own music.’ Tim
The wider, curving promenade in Delray Beach allows more room for bicyclists and pedestrians to share space. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
A small crowd gathered on a windy day in late January to celebrate the end of beach promenade work
Sand builds up on both sides of the north jetty of the Boynton Inlet after the sand pumping station was temporarily shut down. Seawater usually reaches the wall of the building and boulders are visible under the sign. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
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The Colony Hotel, built in 1926, remains a Delray destination. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Related stories: Hospitality started early in historic Delray | Atlantic Avenue projects to change scale of city’s downtown
By Jane Smith
The Delray Beach
OCEAN RIDGE — John Francis Cox, 90, died Jan. 1 at the Veterans Affairs hospice unit, West Palm Beach.
Born June 2, 1927, in Denver, he was the son of the late Earle E. Cox and Louise A. (Lallement) Cox. Mr. Cox attended his early school years in Wak
By Jane Smith
The Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency’s effort to convert old homes into restaurants has hit some more snags.
For the historic Magnuson House at 211 E. Ocean Ave., the CRA will let the owner proceed at his own pace after a mo
By Dan Moffett
Briny Breezes council members took the advice of new Town Manager Dale Sugerman on Jan. 25 and voted to bring in a special magistrate to resolve disputes with homeowners who refuse to comply with building codes.
The vote was 4-1, with
Residences at Water Tower Commons will feature Colonial Caribbean architecture. Rendering provided
By Mary Thurwachter
Construction is expected to begin this month on residential development at Water Tower Commons, a 73-acre retail and residential pr
A Trump organization helicopter is part of the increased airport traffic. File photo/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
President Donald Trump’s repeated visits to South Florida have been characterized as disruptive to many local travelers and as detri
