Under the proposal, seven concrete groins will run perpendicular to the shor
stretching up to 75 feet out into the ocean. This conceptual drawing shows the groins uncovered,
but they will be buried under 7 feet of sand. The sand will gradually wash a
Three Delray Beach senior living communities joined forces to shed the pounds this year in a friendly biggest loser competition. Sixty-five residents, from Abbey Delray, Abbey Delray South and Harbour’s Edge, participated in the fitness program, prov
By Dan Moffett
By comfortable margins, South Palm Beach voters rejected a call for change from political newcomer Robert Gargano on March 15 and returned incumbents Robert Gottlieb and Stella Gaddy Jordan to the Town Council.
Gottlieb received
By Dan Moffett
Briny Breezes Town Council members have put the brakes on passing an ordinance to restrict truck traffic after hearing concerns about safety from their police chief.
Hal Hutchins, Ocean Ridge police chief and the town marshal, to
By Jane Smith
The city recently agreed to pay more than $221,000 for work done to clean and sanitize two fire stations, including one that serves Ocean Ridge and Briny Breezes.
At station No. 1, which serves the coastal communities, the mold-re
The eight-story Ocean One proposal might be joined later by a hotel and a larger, 15-story condo to the south.
Rendering courtesy of Cohen, Freedman, Encinosa & Associates
By Jane Smith
In a surprise move for area waterfront residents, the Boynto
Members of the New Hampshire Police Association pipe and drum corps provided some of the entertainment.
Britt Usher of Boca Raton was decked out in her finest green.
Delray Beach celebrated its annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade along Atlantic Avenue i
By Jane Smith
Over the past 30 years, the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency has spent the most in the West Atlantic neighborhood, according to an analysis released in late March.
In that area, its biggest expense, $24.1 million, went t
Annie Davis, owner of Palm Beach Travel.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Some people count sheep at night, but Annie Davis, owner of Palm Beach Travel in Manalapan, goes to bed thinking about the logistics and routing of her clients’ trips.
“It
By Willie Howard
OCEAN RIDGE — Flip Traylor made a living on the water around Boynton Beach most of his life. The Ocean Ridge resident loved fishing, music and his two West Highland white terriers, Dobbie and Duff. The former pilot, boat captai
By Emily J. Minor
BOCA RATON — Dr. Herbert Leonard Wachtel, a military cardiologist who left the service in 1969 to join Bethesda Memorial Hospital’s burgeoning heart ward, died Feb. 12 in his sleep at home. He was 81.
After joining Bethesda
By Rich Pollack
Efforts to educate motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians in parts of coastal Palm Beach County about the importance of sharing the road appear to be paying off.
During a weeklong, stepped-up enforcement effort along State Road
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, scheduled for May 18 this year, will begin at 6 p.m. It will include a 10-
Lantana Vice Mayor Malcolm Balfour won 69 percent of the votes on March 15 to defeat newcomer Anthony Arsali, with 31 percent. Balfour, who has served on the Town Council since 2013, received 1,116 votes to his opponent’s 512.
Lynn Moorhouse,
By Mary Thurwachter
Natasha Deonath, a former sales director at the Carlisle senior living community in Lantana, was sentenced on March 7 to 18 months in prison for charging the business more than $100,000 for phony resident referrals and taking k
By Mary Thurwachter
The final vote on whether to dissolve the Lantana Nature Preserve Commission, which had been scheduled for the March 14 Town Council meeting, has been postponed until April 25.
The town made its first vote to disband the com
Helen Bass puts the hammer into the project as soon-to-be-homeowner Gethro Phaitus
keeps watch during a roof-raising at 421 SW Fifth Ave. in Delray Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
The Phaitus family — mom Yvescar; daughter Geica, 4; son Liam, 2;
By Dan Moffett
Town Attorney Ken Spillias retired in March after 17 years on the job in Ocean Ridge and 41 years practicing law.
“I’ve seen good government and I’ve seen very bad government,” Spillias told the commission. “I want you to know t
Albert Richwagen III and his mother, Bertha, in their shop in Delray Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
55 years ago, Robert Richwagen posed at the entrance of their first store, and framed the first dollar they made (below).
Photos provided
By Ron
Correction
A story in the April Coastal Star misstated the reason the town of Ocean Ridge paid $50,000 in legal fees to Commissioner Richard Lucibella’s attorney. The payment was reimbursement for Lucibella’s legal defense of a failed recall effo
