Longtime Boca Raton City Manager Leif Ahnell, who retired Dec. 31, shares a light moment with his deputy and successor George Brown during an event for city staff. Photo provided
By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton has profoundly changed over the last 24 years
By Larry Barszewski
When Ocean Ridge’s full-time building official resigned at the end of February, the town scrambled to contract with a company that handles municipal inspections to take over the duties on an emergency basis.
It took two tries, but
Water pipe project delayed — Planned water pipe improvements along North Ocean Boulevard are delayed because the two bids the town received for the work were so far apart: $1.3 million and $2.9 million. Money for the project is coming from the Ameri
New commissioners David Knobel, Orla Imbesi and Elliot Bonner (l-r) are sworn in to seats on the Manalapan Town Commission. Anne Geggis/The Coastal Star
By Anne Geggis
Three new faces are filling the Manalapan Town Commission dais — and two more awai
By Larry Barszewski
A mistake that Florida revenue officials determined “to be in violation of the law” forced Ocean Ridge town commissioners into a special meeting Dec. 21 for a “do-over” of the resolutions they approved in September setting the tow
By Steve Plunkett
Gulf Stream awarded an almost $13 million contract to do its water main, street and drainage project in the Core District and at the same time began talking about borrowing $7 million to complete its 10-year capital improvement plan
The Delray Beach fire station on Andrews Avenue will have to handle a greater workload once the city no longer has a Highland Beach station. File photo
By Larry Barszewski
Plans are in the works for a new beach fire station to serve Delray Beach’s ba
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach town leaders, miffed that a preliminary report from state auditors looking into the arrangement between the town and Delray Beach for fire service was done without their input, want the state to take a deeper dive into
By Rich Pollack
The 122-unit Dalton Place condominium completed Highland Beach’s strict recertification process in April 2022 — just six months after the town enacted new rules — thanks in large part to a $1.75 million renovation project that began p
By Brian Biggane
The South Palm Beach Town Council is closer than ever before to choosing both an architect/builder and an owner’s representative for the much-anticipated new Town Hall.
The council determined in December that it would interview candi
Safety on A1A — Concerns about the investigation of the fatal November hit-and-run on State Road A1A and the need for more safety measures brought a number of residents to the December council meeting.
Several of the attendees reside at the Barclay,
Ryan Heavyside builds custom surfboards and sells Nomad brand clothing at the shop that has been in his family for 55 years. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
When Nomad Surf Shop owner Ryan Heavyside was approached about being the subject of a Meet Your
ABOVE: Open tennis champion Coco Gauff leads her hometown parade as grand marshal of the annual holiday parade down Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach. For her next big event, Gauff, 19, is entered in the Australian Open, which starts Jan. 14 in Melbour
The barricades to protect people from traffic on Federal Highway could be staggered to soften their appearance and be painted or covered with murals. Rendering provided
By Mary Hladky
The city has started work to improve the appearance and safety of
By Mary Thurwachter
Lantana is the 2023 Small Municipality winner in Palm Beach County’s Read for the Record event on Oct. 26. A certificate proclaiming the victory was presented during the Town Council’s Dec. 11 meeting.
To achieve the distinction,
Lifesaving award — Police Chief Sean Scheller presented a Life Saving Award to Officer Arianna Morris during the Dec. 11 Town Council meeting. The July 29 rescue involved a non-verbal 7-year-old boy who had lacerated his wrist in an accident at home
By Steve Plunkett
The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District will spend up to $10,000 to get copies of public records from the city for its fight to stop sending millions of dollars each year to the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency.
Briann H
By Steve Plunkett
The year 2023 was not a good one for the nonprofit group originally founded to support the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton.
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City hopes to improve streets for all — The City Council on Nov. 28 adopted a Complete Streets policy that will guide planning, design, operation and maintenance of streets so that they will meet the needs of motorists, pedestrians, cyclists and tran
Nicole Von Paris looks inside the sailboat Tayana that washed ashore in Delray Beach. Police spokesman Ted White said the 41-foot sailboat, first spotted on Dec. 15, is thought to have lost its mooring in the multiday storm that hit the area with hea
