By Jane Smith
Delray Beach’s city manager received a 10 percent raise even though most of his bosses rated his performance during the past year as average.
Don Cooper, a longtime Port St. Lucie city manager who most recently served as chief
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By Jane Smith
Visitors who went on the Delray Beach website during the third weekend in May saw a photo of a beach with a pier.
But the photo wasn’t of the city beach.
The image was a stock photo holding a place until city staff could post
By Jane Smith
A Fort Lauderdale engineering firm will translate conceptual drawings into biddable documents and oversee construction for Delray Beach’s redo of sidewalks and furnishings along its public beach.
EDSA Inc. initially had a not-to-e
By Jane Smith
A small but vocal group of beach property owners persuaded the City Commission to revisit a December resolution supporting the East Coast Greenway.
They reached out to state Rep. Bill Hager, who sent a letter to the Delray Beach m
By Jane Smith
The owner of the proposed iPic luxury movie theater in downtown Delray Beach received a sixth extension to its contract to allow the firm time to work out a parking agreement with the city.
The deadline is now Oct. 31, instead of
By Dan Moffett
Manalapan commissioners unanimously approved a minor change to their sign code that could have a major impact on business development in the town.
The commission voted to allow commercial tenants with more than 15,000 square f
By Mary Thurwachter
The Town Council turned its focus toward kids at its May 23 meeting, giving thumbs-up to a proposal to bring new playground equipment to Lantana Municipal Beach and to the town’s recreation center.
The equipment for the beac
The developers envision 237 units ranging from studio to two-bedroom apartments.
Rendering provided
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach city staff can begin reviewing plans for the Ocean One project after its Community Redevelopment Agency board gave the
A tree-trimming crew removes Norfolk Island pines in Briny Breezes.
Town residents decided to take out the fragile trees well ahead of hurricane season.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
As we head into the 2016 hurricane season, it’s not too early
By Steve Plunkett
State wildlife officials are calling cellphones the “new 21st century hazard” to nesting sea turtles and reminding people not to take photos with their phones. Someone snapping a flash photo with the handy device could frighten o
By Dan Moffett
A surge of fresh optimism is running through the Gulf Stream underground power project, after town officials have claimed a series of hard-fought gains in recent weeks.
Mayor Scott Morgan says Comcast and AT&T are completing t
World War II veteran George Kelvin designed this flag for the Town Hall in Highland Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
It is the wall in George Kelvin’s Highland Beach home office that provides the best glimpse into the passion and creativity t
By Ron Hayes
BRINY BREEZES — Marilyn David saw Briny Breezes for the first time from a 32-foot travel trailer in July 1946.
She became a permanent resident in 1953 and raised a son and three daughters here.
She was here on June 19, 1963, when he
By Brian Biggane
GULF STREAM — If there’s one thing Alice Dye wants people to know about her brother, Perry Holliday O’Neal, it was that he had a deep sense of caring for his fellow man.
“He was in the Trust Department at the bank, so he always
Rod & Gun Club members find
Run for Roses a great reason to party
Rod & Gun Club members and their guests review the field before the running of the Kentucky Derby.
Mark and Dawn Donohue visit with Louise Glover, who wears a hat adorned with feathers
This eight-bedroom French-inspired estate on the ocean in Highland Beach
is on the market for $31.9 million, almost double the record sale in the town.
Photo provided
By Christine Davis
It’s already a show-stopper, but when it sells, it will be
By Mary Thurwachter
OCEAN RIDGE — At Florida Atlantic University, where Heather Turner Frazer taught for 35 years, she was known as the history department’s moral compass — the woman who always knew the right thing to do and how to do it. Even 1
Barry Adkin, owner of Howard’s Market in Boca Raton, was hoping to move to
Manalapan’s Plaza del Mar before the plaza began negotiating with Publix.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Related story: Code change accommodates Publix sign request
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By Sallie James
A controversial plan to build an upscale restaurant on a 2.3-acre parcel near the Intracoastal Waterway and East Palmetto Park Road is moving forward.
Deputy Boca Raton City Manager George Brown announced plans for the Wildflowe
The good people of Boca Raton are in position to build the first homeless kibbutz in the USA. The United States’ shelter system for homeless people is a failed system. It makes nothing better, it only makes the situation worse.
It is time to
