Lynda Hunter, then the Children’s Services librarian, plays guitar and performs singalong tunes
at the Delray Beach Public Library in June 2015. Hunter is moving from the city.
File photo
Forty-one years ago, I fell in love with Delray Beach. Te
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By Henry Fitzgerald
The Coastal Star took home 17 individual awards in the Florida Press Association’s 2015 Better Weekly Newspaper Contest. The monthly newspaper, based in Ocean Ridge, competed in Division A: Over 15,000 circulation.
The
By Dan Moffett
A Palm Beach County circuit judge will decide whether Gulf Stream owes resident Martin O’Boyle as much as $500,000 in legal fees after finding against the town in a 2-year-old public records lawsuit.
Judge Donald Hafele ruled on
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge commissioners are waiting until the eleventh hour to approve a final budget for the new fiscal year while Town Manager Jamie Titcomb recalculates the numbers to try to correct a series of accounting errors.
This is th
Ocean Ridge is hardening its defenses against Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, the two mosquito species known to transmit the Zika virus.
During the Sept. 12 town meeting, commissioners unanimously approved a new $62,890 contract with Clark
By Dan Moffett
For the first time in its 53-year history, Briny Breezes is looking to hire a paid administrator to manage the town’s government business.
Until now, Briny Breezes has relied on the unpaid volunteer service of elected officials
By Dan Moffett
A Lantana resident and a Manalapan homeowners group have joined forces and filed suit in Palm Beach County Circuit Court to block construction of a Publix at Plaza del Mar.
The suit claims the town acted illegally in July when co
By Jane Smith
City commissioners kept the property tax rate the same, but most property owners will likely pay more in taxes because taxable values increased by 7.9 percent in Boynton Beach, according to Assistant City Manager Tim Howard. Home
Rob Steele, who is one year into his job as president and chief executive officer of Old School Square
in Delray Beach, stands with ‘Field of Blue’ at the square. The sculpture, unveiled in 1996,
is of a boy holding a U.S. flag and honors people in u
By Jane Smith
City homeowners will enjoy a slight reduction in next year’s property tax rate under a $110 million budget passed on Sept. 20.
A Delray Beach owner of a home valued at $550,000 with a $50,000 homestead exemption will pay $50 less
By Jane Smith
When Delray Beach passed the final version of its special events policy, no residents tried to sway the City Commission to vote for or against it.
“You won’t get a lot of people coming out to speak about it,” said Commissioner Sh
By Jane Smith
City leaders and railroad officials want to prevent another pedestrian from dying while illegally cutting across the tracks in downtown Delray Beach.
In early August, a woman left Johnny Brown’s on Atlantic and took a well-used sh
A complex of 14 three-story townhomes is being proposed for the vacant 1.5-acre parcel
on the south side of Briny Breezes Boulevard.
Photo from Google Maps
By Jane Smith
The small oceanfront parcel that once housed the Pelican Apartments alon
By Dan Moffett
Two coastally iconic Manalapan businesses that were headed for the wrecking ball to make way for a new Publix at Plaza del Mar are planning to relocate soon in larger spaces at the center.
Manalapan Italian Cuisine, with its B
By Dan Moffett
South Palm Beach residents are going to have to wait longer for their long-awaited beach stabilization project to begin.
Mayor Bonnie Fischer said county project planners have told her work on the town’s beaches won’t begin be
By Jane Smith
The head of the Community Redevelopment Agency was handed her walking papers when its board members voted 3-2 to not renew her annual contract.
A small, loyal group of Boynton Beach residents spoke in support of Vivian Brooks’
By Dan Moffett
During a contentious three-hour budget meeting, South Palm Beach council members decided to give residents a small dose of tax relief — roughly $40 per homeowner next year.
But the decision comes with consequences. The town runs
By Mary Thurwachter
For the fifth time this year, Lantana’s Municipal Beach was slapped with a no-swimming advisory because of high bacteria levels.
In tests administered by the Palm Beach County Health Department on Sept. 19, bacteria levels w
By Jane Smith
Consideration for the mental health of first responders in the heroin epidemic is being voiced by their chiefs in the South County.
At a U.S. attorney’s town hall meeting called to build awareness of the exponential increase in
Related story: Chiefs express concern for first responders’ mental health
By Jane Smith
The addiction crisis in Delray Beach has affected every city department within the past year. Police and fire-rescue workers have seen the most direct effe
