Donald Godfrey and Michelle Davis White load the Veggie Mobile van, which takes meals to senior shut-ins in Boynton Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Lona O’Connor
“Meals!” shouts Donald Godfrey, with a hearty knock on the door. In his cheerf
Looking up through a stand of blue bamboo.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Black bamboo
Giant bamboo
Sunburst bamboo
Seabreeze bamboo
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
Anyone who understands the exotic appeal of bamboo will want to visit the Trop
These medical studies students at Donna Klein Jewish Academy can tour the College of Medicine
at Florida Atlantic University as part of a new program.
Photo provided
By Christine Davis
The Susan G. Komen breast cancer organization recently announc
The nonprofit garden celebrated the hurricane-delayed groundbreaking of ‘Windows on the Floating World:
Blume Tropical Wetland Garden,’ expected to open in spring 2017. The new exhibit will educate visitors
about the importance of water conservation.
Eighth-grader Jack Liebowitz (center, in black) tamps the ground where supports for the new playground would go.
David Knobel (left) and Head of School Joe Zaluski do cutting for playground equipment
at the Gulf Stream School. Knobel’s son Spencer go
By Steve Plunkett
The race to fill two seats on the Greater Boca Raton Beach & Park District Commission now pits municipal firefighters against their county brethren.
Local 2928 of the International Association of Fire Fighters, which represents firefi
By Steve Plunkett
The city plans to triple its number of boat launches in the Intracoastal Waterway by the end of 2019.
City Council members told Jennifer Bistyga, Boca Raton’s coastal program manager, to pursue building two double boat ramps
By Steve Plunkett
The Greater Boca Raton Beach & Park District has all but given up on meeting with the City Council in 2016, but is looking forward to having a joint meeting Jan. 30.
“We’ve made every effort to try to pull this together. This
By Sallie James
One resident wanted the city to build outdoor pickleball courts. Another complained about crime, and a third grumbled about traffic.
All three spoke last month at a town forum moderated by the city’s Community Advisory Panel, a
By Steve Plunkett
The boardwalk at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, closed since February 2015 after engineers warned it was near collapse, should be reopening this month.
The Greater Boca Raton Beach & Park District approved a $45,500 last-minute ch
By Sallie James
For the second time in two years, the city is considering a one-year moratorium on the operation of medical marijuana treatment centers and dispensing organizations.
No one from the public commented on the matter during the Oct.
Volunteers from the Junior League of Boca Raton prepare for their monthly distribution of diapers on a recent Wednesday morning at their warehouse location, HCI Books in Deerfield Beach. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Sallie James
The stories the
Family-oriented activities, such as sack races, are planned for the free event.
Photo provided
By Janis Fontaine
Grab the kids’ swimsuits and the sunscreen, and head to Oceanfront Park on Nov. 19 for “Play Outdoors Unplugged: Looney Dunes Beach P
A road crew lays asphalt in late October to restore a left-turn lane on East Palmetto Park Road for eastbound vehicles turning north onto Mizner Boulevard. A similar turn lane is being added at Fifth Avenue. City officials say the left-turn lanes wil
Pre-Halloween revelers came early for a costume contest and stayed late to dance the night away
at the town’s second annual Haunted Nature Preserve. ABOVE: Zombie cheerleaders (l-r) Janevia Collin, 7,
and Kaliyah Hugger, 8, of Lantana, react to a sca
It was a reunion at the island school as 500 family members, faculty and students kicked off its 95th year
with a barbecue and a celebration of the Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math curriculum. The evening
ended with a performance by si
By Rich Pollack
Responding to residents’ concerns, Highland Beach town officials are revamping the way the town’s codes are enforced and are close to bringing onboard a full-time code compliance officer.
Earlier this year, town commissioners a
By Rich Pollack
A plan to make improvements to Highland Beach’s 3-mile walking path — and spruce it up — may soon be coming off a shelf where it has sat for at least seven years.
Town commissioners at a meeting Nov. 1 agreed to spend close to
By Rich Pollack
For many years, Highland Beach residents who subscribed to cable television service through Comcast could watch live Town Commission meetings and get relevant town information on their public access television station, Channel 99.
Austin Seidman, 21, did a lot of boating and fishing while growing up in Highland Beach.
The catfish spine removed from his calf muscle.
Stitches show the size of the wound after the spine was extracted.
Photos provided
By Willie Howard
Austin
