As Delray Beach begins
ordinance changes,
others in area plan to stand pat
By Jane Smith
The U.S. Cavalry arrived last month in the form of a 20-page federal joint statement on sober homes, delivered by U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel.
She hoped beleagu
Mike Felice fills a trash bag with debris as Dennis Aten picks up a flip-flop on the beach.
Most days produce a few bags’ worth of trash along the beach.
One odd finding is a plastic bottle cut in half.
Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Ron
Roberto Bentez and Roberto Baster, Meisner Electric employees, use a cherry picker
to construct the 100-foot Christmas tree at Old School Square on Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach.
Building the tree is a monthlong community event that brings together
Kelly Sellers and Katie Morris, the editor’s nieces,
make their grandmother’s family cookie recipe in the early 1990s.
Family photo
December sets me thinking about the sweet smells from my mom’s kitchen on chilly Midwest winter days. Mom really
Harry Adwar volunteers at the Caring Kitchen, a hot-meal program in Delray Beach.
He does cooking, cleaning and raises money for the organization.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Harry Adwar knows what it’s like to go to bed hungry.
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach city commissioners tried to fill a vacant commission seat temporarily, but they remained tied after three votes. They will try again at the Dec. 6 meeting to select a commissioner to serve until the March elections. T
By Jane Smith
A traditional recruiting firm will present at least three choices for the Delray Beach City Commission to interview in December for the acting city manager position, which will be open next year.
City Manager Don Cooper, who s
By Jane Smith
Two city employees received “letters of instruction” recently from the Palm Beach County Commission on Ethics. Another Delray Beach employee’s case was too unclear for the commission to make a ruling.
City firefighter Joseph Lang
By Dan Moffett
Mayor Geoff Pugh says he has been fielding the same two questions from Ocean Ridge residents since Vice Mayor Richard Lucibella’s arrest after a scuffle with police in October:
What do you think about it?
And what are you goin
By Steve Plunkett
Gulf Stream officials and outside attorneys spent an estimated 4,670 hours processing, evaluating, researching and answering requests for public records in fiscal 2016.
The town’s new staff attorney, Trey Nazzaro, making his f
By Mary Thurwachter
A pair of new license plate-reading cameras are destined for Hypoluxo Island. The Lantana Town Council voted Nov. 14 to replace the current readers for $29,257. In 2007, residents of Hypoluxo Island chipped in $28,000 to buy tw
By Steve Plunkett
Gulf Stream’s town manager, who has worked in Town Hall more than 20 years, has given notice that he is retiring — plenty of notice.
William Thrasher tendered a resignation letter dated Nov. 1 and effective April 28.
By Dan Moffett
Briny Breezes has had to look for a deputy clerk three times in the last three years, so Town Council members hope they’ve found a long-term solution with the hiring of Jackie Ermola in November.
A transplant from the Philadel
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge took a $213,000 hit to its budget this year when Briny Breezes decided not to renew a police services contract with the town, choosing instead to sign on with Boynton Beach.
Despite the loss, Ocean Ridge won’t have
Eugen Gantea, left, finds himself ahead 6-0 against Florida state backgammon champion
Jim Macdonald at Ocean Inlet Park.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
It’s a rainy Saturday morning and Jim Macdonald is worried the weather will hurt
By Dan Moffett
As Hurricane Matthew headed on a collision course with the Florida coast in October, Palm Beach County firefighters vacated the Manalapan station and drove their vehicles to shelter on the mainland.
Now town commissioners are wo
The 30 units in the 3550 Ocean building all will have ocean views.
Rendering provided
By Dan Moffett
What may be the quietest real estate boom in Florida is soon to start shaking South Palm Beach to its economic core.
The developers of the muc
By Ron Hayes
The Coastal Star has been honored with 10 awards for writing, photography and design, including six first-place winners, in the Florida Press Club’s 65th annual Excellence in Journalism competition.
Writer Sallie James took a top h
Eighty-two veterans (79 men and three women) residing at Harbour’s Edge Senior Living Facility
felt appreciated on Veterans Day, with each arriving at a flag-raising ceremony in a decorated golf cart.
Executive Director Bob Scharmann spoke in celebra
Carpenter-turned-sculptor Norman Provost with some of his work.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Norman Provost has a passion for working with wood.
Provost, 75, started wood carving 10 years ago, and for the past eight years has been taking carv
