Dozens of residents wore yellow in support of Yvonne Odom’s selection for interim commissioner
at the contentious Dec. 13 Delray Beach commission meeting.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
The Delray Beach City Commission remains deadl
Delray Beach plans to trim its sea grape trees down to 2 feet and then maintain them at 4 feet high,
except for three canopies within a 1,385-foot stretch of public beach.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
The topic of sea grape tr
By Jane Smith
He started as a valet attendant decades ago when he was in college. He liked meeting people and especially driving their cars. Soon he was “hooked” on the industry.
“Everybody needs parking,” said Jorge Alarcon, the new parkin
By Dan Moffett
Saying it’s time to step aside, Manalapan’s David Cheifetz has decided not to run for mayor again when his term expires in March.
“I’ve been a resident of Manalapan for 12 years now,” Cheifetz said during the Dec. 13 town meeting
By Jane Smith
Faced with a list of more than 150 applicants for acting city manager, Delray Beach City Commissioner Mitch Katz reviewed their occupations.
He saw a sous chef, a store manager, a teacher, a personal trainer, a mechanic and a car
Briny Breezes resident Ira Friedman hosted the first Briny Boat Parade in the mobile home park’s
central fountain. Roger Bennett and visiting children join Friedman (blue jacket) to watch the parade.
Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Friedman co
Keith Lee of Delray Beach pulls his kayak up the launching pad
at Lyman Kayak Park after an afternoon of fishing.
Willie Howard/The Coastal Star
By Willie Howard
Those who enjoy the quiet relaxation of paddling a canoe, kayak or paddleboard on th
By Willie Howard
The Lantana Town Council will listen to residents Jan. 9 on the long-standing problem of service trucks parking on Hypoluxo Island, in some cases narrowing roads to one lane.
The council discussed the island’s traffic woes at i
By Rich Pollack
Thinking of crossing Atlantic Avenue or State Road A1A in the middle of the block or of riding your bicycle in traffic with earphones on?
If so, you may want to think again, because police officers in Delray Beach will be out in
Mature canopy trees, like these live oaks at the Delray Beach Historical Society complex,
are being targeted for preservation with the legacy tree program.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
They are trees that catch your eye.
They
By Dan Moffett
Briny Breezes residents will look back on 2016 as the year their town strengthened its ties with Boynton Beach.
In June, the Briny Breezes Town Council approved a 12-year fire-rescue contract with Boynton Beach, extending a lon
Related Story: New parking chief says technology will lead to improvements
By Jane Smith
Smart parking meters that accept various forms of payment are coming to the barrier island and two city garages in the spring.
The Delray Beach City Com
Related Story: Task Force offers recommendations
By Jane Smith
The three largest cities in southern Palm Beach County are taking different paths to regulate sober homes, following the November release of a revised statement by two federal de
By Jane Smith
The Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Sober Homes Task Force has met its year-end deadline to make recommendations to the Florida Legislature about possible changes to counteract sober home fraud.
The state attorney received a o
Maria Nhambu holds her book, 'Africa’s Child,' at her coastal Delray Beach condo.
The book is the first of a planned three-part memoir.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Her name is Maria Nhambu but she prefers to be called Nhambu.
It is a name t
By Dan Moffett
A divided South Palm Beach Town Council has given preliminary approval to an ordinance that will raise the pay of council members and the mayor, beginning after the March election.
The measure increases the mayor’s monthly salar
By Emily J. Minor
OCEAN RIDGE — Daniel J. O’Connell, a prominent contractor and former Ocean Ridge mayor whose daughter said he was always loved for that impish “twinkle in his eye,” died Dec. 16. Mr. O’Connell was 86.
“He was a hilarious man,”
By Emily J. Minor
BOCA RATON — Dr. Thomas G. Vinci, a kid from the tenements of New York City’s Lower East Side who became a successful educator and social philanthropist, died Thanksgiving Day. He was 93.
Dr. Vinci, who had retired to Florida
BRINY BREEZES — Harry Robert Esterman, 88, formerly of Cincinnati, died Dec. 15. He leaves behind his wife of 65 years, Patricia Carolyn Esterman (nee Albers), to whom he was devoted, and five children: Sue Thaler (Mike) of Briny Breezes; Sally L
GULF STREAM — Daniel Joseph Murphy died peacefully at his home in Gulf Stream on Dec. 21 after a courageous 3½-year battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 83.
Danny, as he was known, had been retired for 34 years after a storied career on Wall
