By Mary Hladky
Ten years after housing prices began cratering in the Great Recession, taxable property values in Palm Beach County have zoomed past their previous record high set in 2007.
While the previous peak was $169.4 billion before t
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Exhibit sprouts from fortunate photo find
Nancy, Leila and Dorothy Pierson (l-r) display decorated coconuts at their roadside ‘Cocoanut Stand,’
possibly to raise money for the Red Cross during World War I.
A hand-tinted photograph of what is now Stat
By Dan Moffett
South Palm Beach Police Chief Carl Webb says morale among officers is better now than at any other time during his 28 years with the department.
“It’s a pleasure now instead of a war,” Webb told the Town Council on May 16. “Histo
By Willie Howard
A Boca Raton-based environmental consulting firm has taken over monitoring sea turtle nests on South Palm Beach, ending decades of monitoring by Robert Schonfeld, also known as the “turtle man.” Schonfeld started monitoring sea
By Steve Plunkett
Gulf Stream Town Hall version 2.0 is on its way.
A 24-foot-wide by 29-foot-deep addition on the west side of the building will provide new offices for the town manager and Gulf Stream’s staff attorney as well as additional
Two south county coastal cities continue to see rising numbers of drug overdoses along with increasing fatalities.
In Boynton Beach, police responded to 398 overdoses in 2016 resulting in 35 deaths.
As of May 22, Boynton Beach police responded
Related Story: As overdose numbers soar, cities seek sober home regulation
By Mary Hladky
Previous efforts to crack down on unscrupulous drug treatment centers and sober homes have largely languished in the Florida Legislature.
But that cha
By Steve Plunkett
A proposed three-story garage that Place Au Soleil feared would bring unwelcome noise and light will instead be a concrete reminder of good-neighborliness.
Eleventh-hour negotiations between Gulf Stream and Gunther Volv
By Dan Moffett
The landlords of Manalapan’s Plaza del Mar hoped to be knocking down buildings to make way for a new Publix by now.
They’re not, for two reasons: The supermarket chain’s architects haven’t been able to design a sign that is taste
By Dan Moffett
The prospect of lower rates and improved customer relations was enough to persuade Hypoluxo council members to end a decades-old relationship with Manalapan and switch to Boynton Beach for water services.
On May 17, the Town Coun
By Steve Plunkett
A new potential for heavy growth on Federal Highway at the Woolbright Road and Ocean Avenue intersections has the barrier island-based Florida Coalition for Preservation sounding the alarms.
Boynton Beach has changed its c
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge is 86 years old, essentially built-out and with a population that has stayed largely stable through the past two decades.
But this doesn’t mean the town can avoid growing pains.
Town commissioners are finding that
By Steve Plunkett
Ocean Ridge officials have an outside attorney standing by to defend them in case former Vice Mayor Richard Lucibella makes good on his threat to sue the town for alleged police brutality.
Lucibella’s lawyer, Marc Shiner, said
Smoke-free zone signs are in place at Oceanfront Park.
Tom Warnke/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach has created a voluntary smoke-free zone at its Oceanfront Park.
“People will still be able to smoke in designated areas of the park.
By Mary Thurwachter
Cynthia Cain goes to the beach every day.
“I’m not much of a sunbather type of girl, but I like to walk along the shore and swim,” the Lantana resident said. “I have six grandchildren 10 and under and I like to take them, to
By Dan Moffett
The Briny Breezes Town Council is moving forward with plans to create an administrative position and to hire a part-time manager to fill it before the end of the summer.
Council President Sue Thaler said she hopes to assemble
Workshop members in Boca Raton take a walking tour of U.S. 1, also known as Federal Highway.
Workshops are set this month for Delray Beach and Boynton Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
As it stretches 42 miles from Camino Real i
By Jane Smith
The long-awaited iPic deal closed on May 16.
The developer paid $3.6 million to the Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency for 1.6 acres between Southeast Fourth and Fifth avenues, just south of Atlantic Avenue.
When com
James Blumenfeld, co-owner of Meridian Art Experience in Delray Beach’s Pineapple Grove,
displays works mainly from local artists and offers services for collectors.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
James Blumenfeld and business partner Susan Romain
By Jane Smith
With a 15-minute soliloquy, Delray Beach’s mayor cast the deciding vote to keep the Community Redevelopment Agency board independent from the City Commission.
“The hasty manner in which we got here does not produce an envi
