Guests came out to participate in the theme ‘Sip, Shop & Celebrate,’ raising money for the Spirit of Giving Network’s holiday gift drive that aimed to fulfill 4,000 wishes from underprivileged children in the community. There were special promotions
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Daniel ‘Rusty’ Staub received an impressive round of applause when the legendary baseball player participated in a lively question-and-answer session at the first breakfast of the series, with more than 110 in attendance. Staub gave an anecdotal look
The plate: Barbecue ribs
The place: Houston’s, 1900 NW Executive Center Circle, Boca Raton; 998-0550 or www.hillstone.com.
The price: $29
The skinny: Houston’s has been a go-to place for special occasions and for comfort fare for more than 20 years. Yes
The Blue Anchor restaurant and pub, a block west of the Intracoastal Waterway on Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach, will remain open while it’s up for sale. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Thom Smith
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Blue Anchor Pub
I am a watcher of the sunrise. Most mornings I observe the dawn, coffee in hand, cat at my side, from the cloistered comfort of my screen porch. No great awakening, just light changing from cool to warm as my coffee goes from hot to cold. It’s a time
Vice Mayor Lucibella resignation letter
By Steve Plunkett and Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge Vice Mayor Richard Lucibella faces formal charges of battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting an officer with violence, both felonies, and misdemeanor us
As Delray Beach begins
ordinance changes,
others in area plan to stand pat
By Jane Smith
The U.S. Cavalry arrived last month in the form of a 20-page federal joint statement on sober homes, delivered by U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel.
She hoped beleagu
Mike Felice fills a trash bag with debris as Dennis Aten picks up a flip-flop on the beach.
Most days produce a few bags’ worth of trash along the beach.
One odd finding is a plastic bottle cut in half.
Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Ron
Roberto Bentez and Roberto Baster, Meisner Electric employees, use a cherry picker
to construct the 100-foot Christmas tree at Old School Square on Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach.
Building the tree is a monthlong community event that brings together
Kelly Sellers and Katie Morris, the editor’s nieces,
make their grandmother’s family cookie recipe in the early 1990s.
Family photo
December sets me thinking about the sweet smells from my mom’s kitchen on chilly Midwest winter days. Mom really
Harry Adwar volunteers at the Caring Kitchen, a hot-meal program in Delray Beach.
He does cooking, cleaning and raises money for the organization.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Harry Adwar knows what it’s like to go to bed hungry.
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach city commissioners tried to fill a vacant commission seat temporarily, but they remained tied after three votes. They will try again at the Dec. 6 meeting to select a commissioner to serve until the March elections. T
By Jane Smith
A traditional recruiting firm will present at least three choices for the Delray Beach City Commission to interview in December for the acting city manager position, which will be open next year.
City Manager Don Cooper, who s
By Jane Smith
Two city employees received “letters of instruction” recently from the Palm Beach County Commission on Ethics. Another Delray Beach employee’s case was too unclear for the commission to make a ruling.
City firefighter Joseph Lang
By Dan Moffett
Mayor Geoff Pugh says he has been fielding the same two questions from Ocean Ridge residents since Vice Mayor Richard Lucibella’s arrest after a scuffle with police in October:
What do you think about it?
And what are you goin
By Steve Plunkett
Gulf Stream officials and outside attorneys spent an estimated 4,670 hours processing, evaluating, researching and answering requests for public records in fiscal 2016.
The town’s new staff attorney, Trey Nazzaro, making his f
By Mary Thurwachter
A pair of new license plate-reading cameras are destined for Hypoluxo Island. The Lantana Town Council voted Nov. 14 to replace the current readers for $29,257. In 2007, residents of Hypoluxo Island chipped in $28,000 to buy tw
By Steve Plunkett
Gulf Stream’s town manager, who has worked in Town Hall more than 20 years, has given notice that he is retiring — plenty of notice.
William Thrasher tendered a resignation letter dated Nov. 1 and effective April 28.
By Dan Moffett
Briny Breezes has had to look for a deputy clerk three times in the last three years, so Town Council members hope they’ve found a long-term solution with the hiring of Jackie Ermola in November.
A transplant from the Philadel
