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Lantana’s public beach is a popular destination for families.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Cheryl Blackerby
Lantana Municipal Beach came uncomfortably close to having a no-swimming advisory on July Fourth weekend.
Bacteria levels were in t
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge commissioners are exploring ways to use traffic calming devices to promote safety and help provide the town with its own identity.
Newly elected Commissioner Steve Coz said he heard a lot from residents about the need
Manalapan issued a boil-water notice to customers along State Road A1A and the south end of Hypoluxo Island after a drop in water pressure in late July.
Plant operator Valerie May said a pump malfunction on the morning of July 24 caused water
By Dan Moffett
Concerns about cost have stopped six coastal communities from moving forward with a plan to create a barrier island fire district.
Robert Finn of Texas-based Matrix Consulting Group, which completed a feasibility study on the ide
By Rich Pollack
After months of back-and-forth — and sometimes contentious — discussions, Highland Beach and Delray Beach have finally reached agreement on a nearly $3.8 million annual contract that will allow the larger community to continue prov
Owners Timothy and Adriana McLarney (center) stand with their staff in front of Granger’s Grille
in Delray Beach. They hope to remain month-to-month after their lease ends Oct. 31.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
Granger’s Grille ha
Peter Gary hopes that he and his dance partner, Pam Casanave, will be able to raise
more than $200,000 for the George Snow Scholarship Fund.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Amy Woods
He served in the Marine Corps for eight years and has sev
Officer Gerry Ricco demonstrates
the body cameras that Delray Beach Police will be using.
Photo provided
By Rich Pollack
When Capt. Tom Mitchell started in law enforcement close to three decades ago, the only cameras available to help police do t
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach will dip into its reserves to bring Fire Station No. 1 up to staffing level standards set by South Florida fire-rescue agencies.
For the past two years, Boynton Beach has had enough money to post only four workers at
By Dan Moffett
Briny Breezes moved closer in July to locking in long-term contracts for police and fire-rescue services.
Briny and Boynton Beach have agreed to a 12-year fire-rescue pact that will cost the town $356,725 for the first year and i
By Mary Hladky
The taxable values of Palm Beach County properties have jumped higher than Property Appraiser Gary Nikolits forecast in late May.
Countywide, the amount grew by about 8.4 percent from 2015 to 2016, above the earlier estimate of
Officials are still hoping to confirm that the body of a man pulled from the ocean last month in Gulf Stream was one of several Cuban refugees.
Two men were reported missing by a group of six Cuban refugees who were rescued by the U.S. Coast G
Riverwalk developers say they need 10 stories for the project to “break even.”
Rendering provided
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach’s Community Redevelopment Agency advisory board squeezed in an interim meeting in late July and reviewed two-thirds of t
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach’s Community Redevelopment Agency picked the highest bidder, The Collage Cos. of Lake Mary, to do the third phase at the city marina.
CRA Assistant Director Michael Simon explained that the three companies were ranke
By Jane Smith
The city will soon ask private firms to submit development plans for its four-block Town Square, the Boynton Beach City Commission decided in July.
Commissioners want the proposals to include the 1927 historic high school, the
By Dan Moffett
Already lagging months behind schedule, Gulf Stream’s project to move its utilities underground faces a new obstacle in a lawsuit filed by the town’s litigious resident Chris O’Hare.
In a complaint to Palm Beach County Circuit
Delray Beach code enforcement officers Joe Lucarelli (left) and Robenson Dejardian (blue shirt in rear)
walk with beach visitors accompanied by their service dog. The visitors — who declined to be identified —
are permitted to bring their service dog
By Jane Smith
Special events will be reviewed — again — this month.
This time, Delray Beach city commissioners will approve a policy that follows directives given last year, while providing flexibility for city staff and promoters. The policy
By Mary Thurwachter
Thanks to a $500,000 state grant, approved by the Florida Legislature earlier this year, plans to renovate the old Juvenile Justice building at 901 N. Eighth St. off Lantana Road are rolling along. The building, on the northeas
