By Mary Thurwachter
Lantana said no to a crossing agreement with Florida East Coast Railway and All Aboard Florida.
“This has to do with a second line for All Aboard Florida that they are going to be running through our town,” Mayor Dave Stewa
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Lantana voters will choose from two candidates for each of two council seats. The town has no term limits. Term is three years.
Council Group 3
Tom Deringer
(incumbent) Personal: 63; attended the University of Kentucky, but did not graduate; 36
By Dan Moffett
Briny Breezes Mayor Mike Hill says the Town Council doesn’t need him anymore and his grandchildren in the Midwest do. So it’s time to go.
Hill announced his resignation Feb. 23, and with a wave and a smile, told council member
The city of Delray Beach’s municipal election will take place March 14, as six candidates will compete for two seats on the City Commission. The winners will serve three-year terms. Despite many phone calls and emails, seat 2 candidate Richard A
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge voters will select two town commissioners from a field of four candidates running in the March 14 municipal election.
All are familiar faces in the community.
Incumbent Vice Mayor James Bonfiglio is seeking a s
Two Lantana Council members will face opposition from political newcomers in the March 14 election.
Vice Mayor Philip Aridas, who has served on the council since 2011, is being challenged by Suzanne Gordon, 38. She is a stay-at-home mom and Re
Dorinda Burroughs and her therapy dog, Ginny, work with children
in the after-school program at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Delray Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Dorinda Burroughs dedicated much of her career to improving children’s live
By Jane Smith
The iPic development team is asking Delray Beach’s Community Redevelopment Agency for more money, even though it has not closed on its contract to buy the 1.6 acres for $3.6 million from the agency.
The seventh amended contract h
DELRAY BEACH — Gayl Laymon Brown passed away peacefully on Feb. 5. Gayl was a fixture in the Delray Beach community for over 60 years, having moved there with her family at the age of 12. She was born Jan. 21, 1937, in St. Joseph, Ill., to Dr. G
COUNTY POCKET — Krishna Gibson Espanet, a shining light of a million stars, passed away on Feb. 23 after a short but intense battle with cancer. Krishna was born in Boynton Beach Nov. 25, 1971, to Wendy Baldridge Christie and the late Danny Gibso
By Ron Hayes
OCEAN RIDGE — Some of us yearn for a little more spice in our lives.
Hugh McCormick Jr. was born to a world filled with it, and spent his working days spreading the flavors and fragrances far and wide. In 1885, Mr. McCormick’s g
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach wants to stop out-of-towners from being buried at its city cemetery because it is running out of space.
In early February, the City Commission approved new rules that would allow only full-time residents, their immed
A passive park has replaced the old dive shop at the Boynton Beach Marina.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
The last piece of the Boynton Harbor Marina will soon be finished, and a ribbon cutting is set for March 31.
The latest c
Work continues on the site of the planned 500 Ocean complex,
including the corner of Southeast Fourth Street and East Ocean Avenue.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
The 500 Ocean apartment developers received a five-month extension
A light rain did not spoil a family event at the club. Holly Wamser and daughter Libby talk with Taylor Morris.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal StarGary Tapella and Robin Beamish share a laugh.
By Brian Biggane
The combination of changing demog
Delray Beach author and developer Frank McKinney addresses an open-house crowd
from atop his latest effort, a micro-mansion being offered at $3.95 million.
The 4,042-square-foot home is near the beach in Ocean Ridge and is being represented
by Pascal
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
