By Jane Smith
Twenty city police officers will soon sport body cameras in a pilot program.
The Delray Beach City Commission approved spending $34,260 for 20 Tasers, 20 body cameras and cloud storage of the cameras’ audio/video.
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By Dan Moffett
Dozens of residents packed Town Hall for an April 19 workshop on Manalapan’s proposed water utility deal with Boynton Beach, and now town commissioners say they’re working to answer questions and allay concerns raised in the meeting
By Dan Moffett
Gulf Stream commissioners are scrambling to squeeze costs out of their troubled underground utilities project and accelerate a construction schedule that threatens to drag on for at least another two years.
Mayor Scott Morgan sai
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By Jane Smith
The popular Arts Garage will soon be able to book bands for the summer, after its chief public provider decided to step outside its guidelines and aid the struggling arts venue.
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By Jane Smith
The fate of the stalled Atlantic Crossing project is back in federal court.
In early April, the Delray Beach City Commission rejected the project’s modified site plan that added a driveway and redesigned the valet area into
More than 200 bicyclists are expected in Delray Beach’s Ride of Silence, part of an annual event to honor cyclists killed or injured while riding.
The worldwide event will begin at 6 p.m. May 18. It will be a 10-mile ride starting and ending
By Rich Pollack
A group of dog owners buoyed by a Delray Beach Parks and Recreation Department plan to create a dog beach during a six-month trial suffered a setback when the department’s director reversed course, saying dogs romping through the s
The Florida Department of Transportation is finishing work at the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Venetian Drive.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach will have thinner landscape islands at the east Atlantic Avenue inte
By Rich Pollack
John Boden was driving south on State Road A1A after dark and approaching a pedestrian crosswalk a few months ago when he happened to see the silhouettes of two women and four children in the headlights of a northbound car.
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Mayor Steven Grant (left) works the crowd at the Boynton Beach Firefighters Fishing Tournament
& Chili Cook-Off at Harvey E. Oyer Jr. Park.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
Steven Grant just can’t stop smiling.
“Mayor Taylor had
By Rich Pollack
Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputies and local law enforcement officers now have the ability to ban individuals who violate state laws or local ordinances in a county park from visiting that park again. And some repeat offenders co
Danielle Rosse at her Oceans 234 restaurant in Deerfield Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
One of the first things Danielle Rosse, then 19, did when she arrived in South Florida 16 years ago was to take a job as a waitress at the Ranch House,
By Jane Smith
The owners of the Riverwalk Plaza are proceeding with their plans to convert the aging waterfront shopping center into a mixed-use project dominated by rental apartments.
They plan to ask for a variance to be able to build 10 stor
MANALAPAN — William E. “Bill” Quigley, loving husband, cherished brother, beloved uncle and loyal friend, passed away peacefully at his Manalapan home on April 7. He was surrounded by love, the beauty of the music he cherished throughout his life
By Ron Hayes
BRINY BREEZES — Shirley Smith-Hill, a former flight attendant, business owner and the wife of Briny Breezes Mayor Michael Hill, died unexpectedly on March 30. She was 66. Born Nov. 1, 1949, to Edd Lee and Eleanor Smith, Mrs. Smith-
By Ron Hayes
BOYNTON BEACH — For more than half a century, Busch’s Seafood on North Ocean Boulevard was a showplace, the only restaurant along A1A between Palm Beach and Delray Beach.
And Lucy Bergman, who died on April 11 at 82, was its star.
By Mary Thurwachter
The Lantana Police Department is destined for new digs in the old Department of Juvenile Justice building.
At its April 11 meeting, the Lantana Town Council discussed what to do with the old Juvenile Justice building at 901
By Mary Thurwachter
After allowing the Lantana Nature Preserve Commission one last time to meet, the Town Council voted on April 25 to abolish the group.
The council agreed that there was no longer a need for the commission, since that group an
By Mary Thurwachter
A Hypoluxo Islander who asked the Lantana Town Council to move a speed cushion on South Atlantic Drive didn’t get what he asked for at the town’s April meeting. The council did agree, however, to hold a workshop to discuss spee
By Dan Moffett
Developer Gary Cohen came to the April town meeting in South Palm Beach armed with two lawyers, an architect, an assistant and a 5-foot wooden pole.
Cohen and his Paragon Acquisition Group want to build a six-story condominium
