By Jane Smith
Some wore white T-shirts with “WHO’S LISTENING?” written in black across the top. Others wore white tops, each with a black crêpe-paper ribbon tied around the upper arm.
Dozens of residents protested outside Boynton Beach’s City
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By Jane Smith
Three development teams were picked to present their conceptual plans for the 16.5-acre Town Square in Boynton Beach.
The two local teams are: Boynton Beach Town Square LLC and Boynton Vision LLC. The other team, based in Was
By Jane Smith
A corporate executive search firm will be used to recruit Delray Beach’s next city manager.
“I’m not looking for someone on the learning curve or on their last stop,” Mayor Cary Glickstein said. “But someone with demonstrated meas
By Jane Smith
The Ocean One developer wants a sliver of Boynton Beach public land for a nominal fee and a part of taxpayer dollars generated by the proposed residential and hotel complex.
The city’s Community Redevelopment Agency owns the .4
By Willie Howard
Manalapan is offering Hypoluxo water customers a 35 percent rate cut and a five-year rate freeze in exchange for a 30-year contract extension as the tiny waterfront town competes with Boynton Beach to retain its Hypoluxo water
The La Coquille Club, built in 1954, was one of the most significant mid-century modern buildings
in the area. The architect was Byron F. Simonson.
In 1934, Jacques and Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan bought land on the south end
of Hypoluxo Island, whi
By Jane Smith
The days are numbered for people taking shortcuts across the FEC train tracks in downtown Delray Beach. The city plans to install pedestrian barriers by the end of the summer.
In mid-January, the City Commission approved a pedestr
By Rich Pollack
HIGHLAND BEACH — On Highland Beach’s Intracoastal Drive in the town’s tight-knit Bel Lido community, Erin Kane Rodriguez was known as a fun-loving neighbor, a rising young tennis star and an athlete full of energy, who always took
By Emily J. Minor
MANALAPAN — Fred R. Marcon, the son of Italian immigrants who grew to great success in business, faith and family, died Jan. 19 in the Manalapan home he’d built for his wife, who died five years ago. He was 79. Mr. Marcon was
By Emily J. Minor
GULF STREAM — Linda Ann Grantham Bryan, a Memphis-born adventurer who moved to the Philadelphia area with her parents as a child and kept a home there all her life, died unexpectedly Dec. 23. She was 78.
Mrs. Bryan’s daughter
Acklen Dunning of Delray Beach displays jewelry from her new line of collar necklaces.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Eight years ago, when Acklen Dunning fell in love with a beautiful gemstone necklace that she saw in a fashion magazine, she had a
By Ron Hayes
OCEAN RIDGE — Bill Finley died while putting the finishing touches on a science fiction novel called Saving the Moon.
He’d already made his mark on Earth. At his death from congestive heart failure on Jan. 25, Mr. Finley lef
Marcela Carneiro Millett, of Palm Beach County Human Services, speaks with a homeless man
at The Caring Kitchen in Delray Beach.
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By Jane Smith
One woman at The Caring Kitchen said she was to blame for her homelessn
The Naoma Donnelley Haggin Boys & Girls Club’s 14th holiday vendor sale helped support
programming for more than 400 children in South County. Two hundred-plus guests attended
the opening night reception, and more shoppers stopped by the next two day
By Rich Pollack
A war of words between a candidate for Highland Beach Town Commission and the leader of the church that is the town’s only polling location prompted town leaders to move the March 14 election to Town Hall.
In a 3-2 vote late l
Emmanuel Tinebra and Donniel Busey (right), owners of Posh for Hair in Manalapan,
bought the salon in January 2016 and recently oversaw its makeover.
The salon has been in business for more than 30 years.
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By Amy Woods
Las Ventanas has been sold to Pollack Shores Real Estate Group
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By Christine Davis
Las Ventanas, a mixed-use development on 15 acres in Boynton Beach, sold for $109.31 million in mid-December. Prudential Insurance Company of America
By Steve Plunkett
A group led by a former Chamber of Commerce president wants a judge to overturn Boca Raton’s new ordinance reserving city-owned land along the Intracoastal Waterway for public uses only.
ForBoca.org Inc., which in a lawsui
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach Town Commissioner Carl Feldman wants to make sure a large chunk of county-owned property at the south end of town known as Milani Park doesn’t become Milani parking lot.
Feldman, who is running for mayor in March
By Steve Plunkett
Now it’s 20 months and counting.
Boca Raton City Council members canceled a Jan. 30 joint meeting with Greater Boca Raton Beach & Park District commissioners. It would have been the first time the boards got together since Jun
