Delray brings new license plate
scanners to barrier island
Delray Beach officer Anthony Sala speaks with a driver pulled over when a license plate recognition camera
(shown below) alerted him to an expired tag.
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By Rich Po
As I sit through city commission meetings, I keep hearing development proposals pitched citing a trend of buildings for millennials that won’t require the usual city-required parking allocations.
City planners seem to love this concept. The y
Ben and Mayra Stern of Highland Beach have fostered more than two dozen dogs of a variety of breeds
and sizes until the dogs are ready for their forever homes. The Sterns kept Cubby, whom they call their ‘ambassadog.’
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By R
By Jane Smith
Nearly 10 years after Delray Beach was dubbed “the recovery capital of America” by The New York Times, that branding still irritates some elected officials.
“This leadership is not sitting idly by. We want to see that reputation
By Jane Smith
Fed up with sloppy contracts and having to beg for taxpayer dollars, the Delray Beach City Commission will soon consider taking over its Community Redevelopment Agency board.
The final straw was the b
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By Mary Hladky
The numbers are staggering.
The addicti
Alternating Chinese and American flags acknowledge Chinese President Xi’s impending visit and help secure
the Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa entrance. Workers later put fencing atop the concrete barriers.
Photos by Joe Skipper/The Coastal Star
Supporter
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge commissioners have given preliminary approval to an ordinance that authorizes the town’s Planning and Zoning Commission to review developments and consider architectural design and compatibility with neighborhoods.
Th
More than 60 Briny Breezes residents, including speaker Joe Coyner, showed up at the April 27
council meeting to complain about a proposed ordinance that would create
a magistrate position to resolve building code disputes.
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By Dan Moffett
One of the first orders of business for newly elected Mayor Keith Waters is brokering peace between members of the La Coquille Club and the Eau Palm Beach Spa & Resort.
For months, some members have complained to the Town Commiss
By Jane Smith
After city commissioners insisted the two-way road be placed back into the Atlantic Crossing development, they were ready to settle the lawsuit with the project’s developer.
“I do not think we can get a much better project wi
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge residents soon could see tangible benefits from the Palm Beach County penny sales tax increase voters approved in November when the town begins repaving its streets.
Town engineers identified a priority list of 11
Workers with MBR Construction use a small end-loader to remove
broken-up pieces of the sidewalk across A1A from Anchor Park.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach started working on its $3.1 million redo of the beach promenade
By Jane Smith
Boat-loving residents came to Delray Beach’s outreach meeting to hear when work would begin on raising the seawall in Veterans Park and on replacing two docks there for marine access to the Intracoastal Waterway.
The docks will be
Pete Dye was a hands-on supervisor during re-construction of the Gulf Stream Golf Club in 2013-14.
Pete and Alice with one of their dogs through the years, all named Sixty. The last Sixty died in December.
Photos provided by Ken May
The Dyes’ lifeti
By Dan Moffett
A bidding war for water customers has broken out between Manalapan and Boynton Beach, with some 550 Hypoluxo residents likely to benefit with lower monthly bills and perhaps even better service.
For decades, Manalapan has sol
William Thrasher and his wife, Phyllis, laugh at the oversized key Gulf Stream police presented him
at his retirement party. The Thrashers bought a Winnebago to tour parks across the country and lost the keys.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Steve Pl
Robert Ganger holds his Judge James R. Knott Historical Contribution Award,
flanked by J. Grier Pressly III (left), chairman of the board of the Historical Society
of Palm Beach County, and Harvey Oyer III.
Photo provided by Capehart Photography
By Amy Woods
Braman Motorcars general manager Stephen Grossman ceremoniously gave Andrew Aiken, president and CEO of the Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society, a $25,000 check as part of a multiyear commitment to support the zoo’s tiger exhibit.
The
Christina Cleveland, a certified financial planner in Boca Raton, also is busy with several charities
and her church. She lives in coastal Delray Beach. The boy in the photo on her desk is her son, Max.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
When Christina
