A marine turtle specialist extracts eggs from the nest in South Beach Park. The eggs were relocated to Red Reef Park so a beach renourishment project would not disturb them. Photos courtesy of city of Boca Raton
By Steve Plunkett
A leatherback se
By Steven J. Smith
HIGHLAND BEACH — Walter Janke remembered his wife, Maria, as a kind and thoughtful woman who constantly placed the needs of others above her own.“That’s just the type of person she was,” Mr. Janke said. “She was a caring person. Hel
Thirty-four people join hands in a show of unity against the threat a proposed four-story house at 2500 N. Ocean Blvd. poses to the marine ecosystem and wildlife that depend on beach and dune habitats. Photo provided
Yolanda and Lou Uzel, residents
By Dan Moffett
Faced with a staggering cost increase and continued delays, Gulf Stream commissioners are scrambling to get their much-troubled and long-awaited underground utilities project back on track.
Danny Brannon, Gulf Stream’s engineerin
This is a pivotal time in Delray Beach history, so I want to make a few comments on the Atlantic Crossing project, which the city sent back to the Site Plan Review and Appearance Board on March 1.
I want to thank Commissioners Shelly Petrolia
This legislative session demonstrated a political will to reform the Florida’s Public Records Act. However, that will was misguided in both SB 1220 and HB 1021.
Those bills targeted the attorney’s fees provision of Chapter 119 and attempted to
Two days after the Florida Legislature completed the 2016 session, a Sun Sentinel editorial headlined “Open government under attack,” indirectly referred to a failed bill that attempted to address abuse of the Public Records Act by a cottage indu
By Jane Smith
For nearly a year, city staffers have toiled to create a special-events policy for Delray Beach.
Gathering staff from various departments was a bit like herding cats, Assistant City Manager Francine Ramaglia told city commissioner
Delray Beach voters overwhelmingly approved changing the city charter to give the City Commission authority to appoint an internal auditor. The vote was 9,318 to 3,144.
The vote on a second referendum question, on allowing the City Commission
By Dan Moffett
A positive report from Commissioner Clark Appleby has given the Manalapan Town Commission reason to take the next steps in exploring a water utility deal with Boynton Beach.
Appleby, a financial adviser by trade, studied the pote
By Jane Smith
The iPic theater complex will go forward in the heart of Delray Beach by the slimmest of approval ratings.
On March 15, the City Commission signed off on three waivers and a site plan by a 3-2 vote. The project will occupy 1.59
Jim Donley keeps a map of the world at his Delray Beach home decorated with photos
from his adventures as a Cabinet aide and economic development adviser.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Donley goes climbing in the Balkans in 1989.
He taped an anniversa
Correction
An April story about the Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency’s goal-setting session gave the wrong attribution about the reasons behind a proposed tax rate reduction. The CRA executive director told his board members that the
By Mary Hladky
Facing an epidemic of drug overdose deaths, Florida lawmakers passed a number of bills in the recently completed legislative session that take steps to rein in the problem.
“I think the Legislature has really developed an underst
By Jane Smith
Another ray of hope for South County coastal cities overwhelmed with sober home complaints comes via U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel’s office.
She is holding a roundtable discussion May 2 on sober homes. Her office has invited mayors, cit
By Rich Pollack
Drug users who overdose and are rescued with the use of the medication naloxone may soon be getting long-term recovery help from an unexpected source — the Delray Beach Police Department.
Police Chief Jeff Goldman, working in c
Consultants suggest redoing a building with restrooms and offices,
reconfiguring the docks and refurbishing the area.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
The dock at Ocean Inlet Park, almost 30 years old, has rotting wood fenders and other failing
Shade sails such as this one at Oceanfront Park would be used to collect rain for irrigation
under a plan to make the park more environmentally friendly.
Willie Howard/The Coastal Star
A site plan shows the new wastewater treatment plant (bottom left
By Dan Moffett
It could take at least another month before six barrier island communities learn the results of a feasibility study on a plan to create a special fire district.
Robert Finn, a consultant with Matrix Consulting Group, told members
