Members of the Marine Animal Rescue Society wrestle with the body
of a deep-water beaked whale that had beached itself in Gulf Stream.
Michelle Quigley/The Coastal Star
By Willie Howard
A deep-water beaked whale beached itself in Gulf Stream on S
Maria Abbenante and her son Angelo pause inside Lynora’s Restaurant on Clematis Street
in West Palm Beach. Maria and her husband, Rafaelle, who live in Point Manalapan, came out
of retirement in 2014 to open the eatery with Angelo. Maria shuns canned
By Christine Davis
Astronomer and researcher Ata Sarajedini was named dean of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science at Florida Atlantic University. He will assume his new role in January. Sarajedini is associate dean for natural science and m
Development teams that bid on the Town Square proposal will have to include
the entire Boynton Beach High School in their plans, not just its facade.
File photo
By Jane Smith
Preservationists were relieved to see the historic Boynton Beach High
The Wick Costume Museum in Boca Raton is the largest holder of theatrical wardrobes
in the United States, with nearly 60 original Broadway wardrobes.
Kimberly Wick poses with costumes from the 1956 production of My Fair Lady.
Photos by Tim Stepien/Th
By Steve Plunkett
The feature most wanted at Boca Raton’s Wildflower site by an admittedly unscientific sample of residents is a wide boardwalk along the Intracoastal Waterway, followed by a water taxi and space for paddleboards and kayaks.
By Rich Pollack
Artist Glenn Weiss was shocked when, during a summer trip to the beach, he discovered that the pavilion at Atlantic Dunes Park in Delray Beach had been destroyed in June during a middle-of-the-night fire that has been ruled suspici
By Steve Plunkett
The longtime attorney for the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District will soon shed his role as the district’s contract administrator. “Possibly around the first of November, I will be able to come to you with a recommenda
By Steve Plunkett
There’s a definite thaw in the cold war between the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District and city officials.
“There’s more of a mood of cooperation,” Steve Engel, the district’s vice chairman, said Sept. 23 after he and
By Rich Pollack
Residents of Highland Beach will see the town’s tax rate drop even lower than previously announced, following a Town Commission decision last month to reduce the proposed operating tax rate from $3.28 per $1,000 of assessed propert
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach town commissioners have agreed to hire an outside law firm to represent the town in negotiations and other matters should a fledgling effort by non-police employees to form a union come to fruition.
At a meeting
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach is looking for a new town manager again, just not right away.
Town commissioners agreed last month to accept Town Manager Beverly Brown’s letter announcing her retirement, but surprised her by deciding to make it
Eight-year-olds Zepplyn Berry (left), of Boca Raton, and Giada Caniza, of Boynton Beach,
launch their 2040 mayoral campaigns during the YMCA ‘Kid for Mayor’ press event
at the DeVos-Blum Family YMCA of Boynton Beach. The event was part of a national
By Sallie James
Boca Raton property tax rates for the upcoming year are decreasing slightly, property values are up 7.46 percent and the city has plans to hire 76 new employees, including eight police officers and 16 firefighters.
The new rates
By Steve Plunkett
It’s hard to see the progress as you cruise along Interstate 95, but by mid-October, work on the new Spanish River Boulevard interchange will pass the 80 percent completion point.
All 13 bridges of the complex interchange ar
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach, often called the rehab capital of the country, is trying to stay one step ahead of treatment centers.
In early September, the City Commission unanimously agreed to a one-year moratorium on medical marijuana treatment
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach town commissioners will be spreading the word about the need to keep balloons and other debris off beaches, but stopped short of creating an ordinance similar to one implemented by Lantana that bans balloons.
The
By Steve Plunkett
The races for the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District have new cash leaders.
After the Aug. 30 primary, Seat 3 incumbent Earl Starkoff was sitting on a $2,155 war chest, while Seat 1 incumbent Dennis Frisch had $1,
Boca Raton Cemetery Manager Ed Libengood gestures at available space for more graves.
Sallie James/The Coastal Star
By Sallie James
With more than 8,000 graves, crowding had become a critical issue at the picturesque Boca Raton Cemetery.
The p
Shawn Orell and Shanna Boone, co-workers at OrthoAcel Technologies in Miami,
enjoy a scenic lunch at Benny’s on the Beach restaurant in Lake Worth.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Brian Biggane
Back in 1986, when the Lake Worth Pier was a lot qui
