If you’re planning to be on Interstate 95 through Boca Raton after midnight in early May, check with the Florida Department of Transportation first.
The department, which is building a new I-95 interchange, planned to close northbound lanes fr
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By Sallie James
Height is hot. At least talking about it is in Boca Raton.
That’s why council members plan to discuss later this month an ordinance that would limit building heights in areas zoned local business and multifamily residential.
By Sallie James
If someone was appointed to fill a vacancy on the Boca Raton City Council, that person could serve up to two years without voter approval.
It’s a dynamic that council member Scott Singer thinks is just too long.
Singer has p
By Steve Plunkett
Boca Raton’s deputy fire chief has moved two towns north to take the reins as chief of Boynton Beach’s Fire Rescue Department.
“I know about the passion of the firefighters that work here (and) bring to the job every day,
By Steve Plunkett
Boca Raton officials are reviewing plans for a second, four-story residence on the ocean east of A1A.
Vero Beach-based civil engineers Schulke, Bittle & Stoddard LLC designed a 14,270-square-foot duplex for the 0.42-acre p
By Steve Plunkett
Arthur Koski’s job at the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District seems secure if district commissioners, his bosses, have any say.
Or perhaps, because they have very little to say.
Only one has responded to City Cou
By Mary Hladky
Hoping to mollify residents who oppose their plans for a 384-unit luxury condominium, the developer and architect of the proposed $500 million Mizner 200 have redrawn their plans once again.
Unveiling them to residents attending
Dredging equipment fills the central beach of Boca Raton in late April.
The pipes and bulldozers were removed after work was halted.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Steve Plunkett
The city’s dredge contractor has left Boca Raton after compl
By Ron Hayes
City Manager Don Cooper has named Neal de Jesus, a veteran fire chief of two South Florida departments, to replace Chief Danielle Connor, who retires May 31 after a 23-year career with Delray Beach.
De Jesus, 54, retired from Co
Jellybean, a Lhasa apso-shih tzu mix, was kicked
into the Intracoastal after having speaker wire
wrapped around its neck and a hind leg.
Photo provided
By Sallie James
A dog bound with speaker wire and then kicked into the Intracoastal Waterway
By Rich Pollack
Responding to safety concerns expressed by town commissioners, Florida Department of Transportation officials have come up with a nearly $200,000 plan to address flooding issues on State Road A1A through Highland Beach.
“It’s a
Tia Jenkins pitches her idea for Switchy Shoes, which earned her the largest cash prize
at Florida Atlantic University’s Tech Runway.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Lucy Lazarony
Eighteen entrepreneurial youths, members of the Boca Raton Chamber
By Lona O'Connor
Someone near you suffers from a mental illness. That’s the first thing mental health professionals want you to know during May, Mental Health Month.
According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness and the National Institu
By Steve Plunkett
The meeting pitted City Council member Robert Weinroth against a roomful of unhappy Boca Raton residents mostly from the barrier island and downtown.
The adversarial nature was apparent from the start, when Weinroth no
The north end of Delray’s municipal beach
has been a hangout for catamaran sailors
and their friends for more than 35 years.
Delray Beach resident Bob Kubin sails his catamaran, North East,
from the north end of Delray’s municipal beach.
This part
Pastor Andrew Hagen of Advent Lutheran also writes online under the moniker ‘The Faster Pastor,’
in part because he loves to ride his Harley-Davidson Sportster.
Photo provided
By Janis Fontaine
That very creative Pastor Andrew Hagen of Advent Lu
Boca resident Lisa Huffman holds her son Harrison while keeping an eye on her golden doodle
and a friend’s greyhound at Bark Park Dog Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Arden Moore
My dogs, Chipper and Cleo, remind me to never stereotype can
Informal Japanese gardens from the 9th to 12th centuries featured lakes and islands
and were intended to be viewed from a boat. At the Morikami, lush trees and shrubs
have been selectively pruned to create the impression you’ve been transplanted to a
The Fish Rules app is location-specific and works on either an Android or an iPhone.
By Willie Howard
Remember the correct slot size limit, bag limit and open seasons for snook?
What about the bag limit for pompano or the minimum sizes for m
Colleen Paul-Hus hosted a small educational farm-to-table gathering at her home
in Gulf Stream, and she addressed those attending (below).
Max, one of the four children in the household, interacts with neighbor Brenda Medore.
Photos by Jerry Lower/Th
