Students participated in an annual event in which all grade levels run, walk and navigate
an obstacle course to raise awareness of the importance of fitness and funds for the school’s new playground.
An informative lecture from parent Lew Gallego (le
More than 160 St. Andrew’s School students worked to package single-serving meals.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Janis Fontaine
Marissa Govic’s goal is to feed hungry children. She’s using all her talents — and they’re considerable — to achieve
The Metropulos brothers — Nick, left, and Lucas — have operated the nonprofit fishing
and environmental education organization Fishing for Families in Need based at St. Andrew’s School
in Boca Raton since 2007. This photo was taken in January, when t
More than 350 cyclists, runners and walkers -- including (l-r) Kendall Apte, Susan Tusting
and Margaret Blume -- turned out for the annual fundraiser that had cyclists pedaling 40 miles
and runners and walkers doing 3.1 miles. There also was a 1-mile
By Rich Pollack
A memorial service will be held Feb. 26 for Highland Beach Town Commissioner Lou Stern, who died Feb. 8 following a short battle with kidney disease. He was 82.
The service will be held at Gutterman-Warheit Memorial Chapel, 240 Nort
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge commissioners decided to postpone an appeal hearing for fired police Lt. Steve Wohlfiel after his attorney filed suit, charging the town had violated his rights and denied him due process.
In a declaratory judgment comp
By Steve Plunkett
The Federation of Boca Raton Homeowner Associations is inviting voters to a forum of candidates for mayor and City Council Feb. 6.
The federation meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. with council candidates taking questions at 7 p.m. and
Locally produced balm sweetens
sea turtles’ recovery at Gumbo Limbo
Caitlin Bovery, sea turtle rehabilitation assistant coordinator, rubs dark, raw honey on Blitzen,
an ill adult loggerhead turtle, at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center.
The honey speeds heal
The 2016 elections are over. Now on to 2017. The March 14 municipal elections are right around the corner.
In Boca Raton the candidate qualification period has ended, so you may already be noticing yard signs. In our other coastal municipalit
Ben Hicks uses his photos to raise awareness of sea turtles.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
A photo by Hicks showing a green sea turtle coming to the surface to breathe.
By Rich Pollack
Ben Hicks knows when sea turtles don’t mind him swimming besid
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge commissioners have decided to let the voters choose who should fill the seat vacated by former Vice Mayor Richard Lucibella, who resigned in December after prosecutors filed three charges against him stemming from an all
By Steve Plunkett
A circuit judge has rejected a public records lawsuit against Gulf Stream after an attorney for the town mounted a defense that accused the plaintiff, town resident Chris O’Hare, of “bad faith.”
“There seems to be a national
Students from Somerset Academy Canyons High School participated in a cleanup
of the Ocean Ridge Natural Area on A1A north of Woolbright Road on Jan. 28.
They learned a few things about mangrove habitats while filling almost an entire roll-off contain
By Dan Moffett
Former police Lt. Steven Wohlfiel will ask Ocean Ridge commissioners to reconsider his firing at a special meeting at 3 p.m. Feb. 6 in the Town Hall chambers. The commission voted unanimously to fire Wohlfiel last month after rec
By Steve Plunkett
A proposed redevelopment plan by Gunther Volvo that includes a three-story parking garage at the back of the property has neighboring Place au Soleil up in arms.
“We are very concerned about the pending Gunther Volvo developm
By Dan Moffett
Controversial brainstorms that hatch in Palm Beach have a way of drifting south to Manalapan.
So when the Palm Beach Town Council moved to consider leaf blower legislation recently, it wasn’t surprising that before long the idea
The view of the proposed Atlantic Crossing looking southeast from the corner
of Northeast First Street and Northeast Sixth Avenue shows residential and related amenities.
Rendering provided
By Jane Smith
The long-delayed Atlantic Crossing develo
By Jane Smith
The Delray Beach City Commission did not violate its charter by declining to hold a special election to fill a vacant commission seat, a circuit judge ruled from the bench in January.
At the hearing, City Attorney Max Lohman argue
Yard work and construction trucks clog a Hypoluxo Island road.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Mary Thurwachter
A proposed law that would limit parking on the street and public rights of way on Hypoluxo Island failed to garner a single vote from
By Jane Smith
She is part of the glue that holds Delray Beach together.
After nearly 13 years as the city clerk, Chevelle Nubin is leaving to take a similar position with the village of Wellington.
Nubin will make more money. The Welling
