Frank Gonzales, top, and Fernando Aciento, bottom, paint the original wooden-brick head
inside the rebuilt playground of Boca Raton’s Sugar Sand Park.
The playground is expected to be completed this month.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Visitors to se
By Steve Plunkett
Boca Raton wants a judge to dismiss a lawsuit by a group seeking to invalidate an ordinance that reserves city-owned land along the Intracoastal Waterway for public uses only.
The suit by ForBoca.org Inc., whose leader is
By Steve Plunkett
The city’s plans to renovate Rutherford and Lake Wyman parks — revised to appease their Golden Harbour neighbors — have new opponents: the two new commissioners of the Greater Boca Raton Beach & Park District.
Commissioners C
Marie Soltis at the Briny Art League studio with her painting of a blue heron at Wakodahatchee Wetlands.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Artist Louise O’Brian holds one of her paintings outside her Briny Breezes mobile home in the 1940s. Photo provided
The city of Boca Raton’s municipal election will take place March 14, as five candidates will compete for two seats on the City Council. The winners will serve three-year terms.
Profiles compiled by Steven J. Smith
Council Seat A
Patti Dervishi
The city of Boca Raton’s municipal election will take place on March 14. The winners will serve three-year terms.
Mayors Forum
The Boca Raton Tribune will host a forum March 10 for residents to meet and learn more about the two candidates runn
March 30: Artist DUAIV will create a one-of-a-kind painting to be auctioned during Women’s Circle’s 13th-annual fundraising gala. Enjoy dinner, live music, silent auction, raffle and dancing.Proceeds from the event support programs to improve career
By Steve Plunkett
Mayor Susan Haynie painted election rival Al Zucaro as a visionless complainer; Zucaro in turn said that under Haynie’s watch, problems in the city never get resolved.
And so it went at a candidate forum Feb. 6 sponsored by th
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach voters will be visiting a new polling place when they select a mayor and two commissioners on March 14, and they’ll see more names on the ballot than they have in recent memory.
In a town where candidates — especi
Love of Literacy Luncheon committee members (l-r, in front) Patricia Knobel, Stephanie Kahlert, Deborah Ghostine, Lisa Fullmer, Nicole Pasquale, Laura Silver, (in back) Ken Spillias, Jorgette Smith, Lynn Kalber, Carol Rose, Susan Rabinowitz, Jennifer
Susan Brockway, Dennis Hudson and Jane Mitchell have joined the board of an organization that manages a $154 million endowment and has been serving the region for more than four decades.
Brockway is a CPA who worked at a national accounting firm a
Following the success of last year’s inaugural event, the town of Highland Beach is bringing back its Spring Fling community event with food, entertainment and a variety of vendors.
Set for 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 25 in the Town Hall parking
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach town leaders last month appointed George Kelvin, an active Highland Beach resident and a commission candidate in 2012, to fill the commission seat that opened with incumbent Lou Stern’s death in early February.
“G
By Rich Pollack
Civilian employees in Highland Beach, in a 9-5 vote, agreed to form a union and be represented by the Florida State Lodge Fraternal Order of Police.
During an election Feb. 2 in which 18 civilian town employees were eligible to
By Mary Hladky
Crocker Partners was hoping for quick action in December when the developer asked a city board to approve ordinances that would set the stage for 2,500 rental units and a Tri-Rail station at Midtown just east of the Town Center at B
Residents and friends enjoyed a beautiful afternoon at the condo’s annual gathering.ABOVE: (l-r) Peter McMullin, Joe and Eveline Kochling and Terrell Cheney. BELOW: Susan Hurlburt and Josee Laperriere. Photos provided by Paul Zaza
In its 15th year, the Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum’s main fundraising event, the annual Boca Bacchanal Wine & Food Festival, will be March 24-25. The celebration begins with the exclusive vintner dinners on March 24, and a spirits dinner fo
There are two commission seats to be filled in Highland Beach in this election. Barry Donaldson and Rhonda Zelniker are running for the three-year seat, while Melissa Ebbs, Carl Lee Gehman and Elyse Riesa are running for the two-year seat.
Profil
The race for Highland Beach mayor pits Ron Brown against Carl Feldman. The winner will serve a three-year term.
Profiles compiled by Steven J. Smith
Mayor
Ron Brown
Personal: 70; graduated from Indiana University with a degree in business man
By Rich Pollack
HIGHLAND BEACH — Lou Stern loved making a difference.
A Highland Beach town commissioner when he died Feb. 8 at 82, Mr. Stern was someone residents called on when they needed a friend in their corner. “Lou fought for resident
