A crowd of pickleball players waits for courts to open up at Patch Reef Park in Boca Raton. Reserving your place in line is as easy as placing your paddle in a staging rack (below right). Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
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Gary Chancey, an engineer-driver for the new Highland Beach Fire Rescue, receives his department badge from his wife, Liz Chancey, an engineer-driver for Riviera Beach Fire Rescue. The ceremony at the new Highland Beach station included (l-r) Chief G
The South East Coast District’s masters tournament brought dozens of players to the Briny Breezes courts. They included (l-r) Chuck Busscher, Briny Club; Jocelyne Vigneault, Park City Club; Dan Smith, Briny; Maurice Jacques, Park City, and Rich Curti
Unintended conse-quences. Who would have guessed 20 years ago that big, white square houses would be all the rage? Who could have known FEMA, faced with the reality of rising water, would set new requirements for floor levels? And I suppose it should
Katherine Parr with Tuxedo, her 7-year-old Havanese, at home in Manalapan. Parr, a former schoolteacher, does design for her Katherine Parr Jewelry brand. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Brian Biggane
Katherine Parr calls meeting Beth Walton, CEO of
In response to a letter in the April issue of The Coastal Star calling for the installation of crosswalks in South Palm Beach, I would ask the following questions: Placed where? And leading where?
Unlike the west side of A1A, there is no shared path
Ira Friedman, I barely knew him, but what a really nice man. He was proud of Briny!
I’m a seasonal resident of Ocean Ridge and I’m a woodworker, but I have no equipment here.
I had a project, so I randomly called Briny Breezes to see if I could use t
Related: Delray Beach: Investigation doesn’t support allegations against city manager
By Anne Geggis
One day after an investigation found no evidence that the city manager inappropriately touched him, Delray Beach Fire Rescue Chief Keith Tomey was t
The shooting happened at Berkshire by the Sea, on North Ocean Boulevard in Delray. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Judge denies bond to suspect; defense aims to impugn witnesses
By Jane Musgrave
Nearly eight months after a popular computer tech was shot
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach’s battle to stop the controversial Milani Park was dealt a pair of powerful blows in April, with county leaders saying they are developing the park based on 15-year-old town approvals — and with the Milani family blessi
By Anne Geggis
Every dog may have its day, but canines shouldn’t be having theirs on Ocean Ridge’s beach.
That was among the priorities that town commissioners raised during their annual goal-setting session April 22, in addition to adding a crosswal
Beach sign case closed — The “no trespassing” signage controversy that inspired a new Ocean Ridge ordinance — and then a code enforcement case against the Turtle Beach condominium association for violating it — may finally be resolved.
The code case
By Anne Geggis
Add Manalapan to the list of coastal municipalities in South Palm Beach County where officials are hearing about larger-sized homes that don’t blend into their existing neighborhoods.
Delray Beach in March passed new limitations for ho
A newly built concrete block retaining wall at Siréne Villas overshadows a neighbor’s existing wooden privacy fence. Photo provided
By Anne Geggis
The old Parliament Inn’s transformation into the Siréne Villas on George Bush Boulevard has its neighbo
By Steve Plunkett
Roadway catch basins are stacked up behind Town Hall, and the right-of-way on Wright Way is staked out, but even before Gulf Stream’s street and drainage improvement project in its Core district kicked off, officials were making cha
Development authority member removed — In an unprecedented action, the Delray Beach City Commission voted to remove a Downtown Development Authority board member.
The 4-1 vote at the commission’s April 16 meeting came on the heels of a Palm Beach Cou
By Rich Pollack
The year-long State Road A1A improvement project through Highland Beach and part of southern Delray Beach has been pushed back and now isn’t expected to start until late May or early June.
In an email to elected officials in both muni
By Anne Geggis
The three traffic citations a Lantana woman received after driving her 2020 Kia Soul into a group of cyclists on State Road A1A in Gulf Stream in January — injuring three critically — won’t leave any marks on her driving record.
A judg
By Brian Biggane
Even as it works toward the construction of a new Town Hall and community center, the South Palm Beach Town Council finds itself in a period of upheaval.
Following the resignation of longtime member Robert Gottlieb in December, the c
By Brian Biggane
The woman charged in the November hit-and-run death of a South Palm Beach woman has multiple DUI offenses and has been driving without a valid license for the past seven years, according to court documents.
Amneris Ramos, 43, listed
