On Nov. 6, 2009, 48-year-old Bill Dunn choked to death in the county pocket. It took Palm Beach County Fire Rescue nearly 13 minutes to respond to the 911 call.
It’s unknown if a faster response might have provided a different outcome in Dunn’s case
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Gulf Stream resident Kirsten Stanley is happy to serve as the president of the Junior League. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Kirsten Stanley doesn’t shy away from challenges.
At 39, she is executive vice president of Delray Beach-bas
By Jane Smith
The man’s voice on the robocall sounded as if something dangerous were happening.
In mid-September, he warned of Delray Beach elected officials’ transferring fire-rescue services to the county. The county will get the equipment, buildi
By Dan Moffett
Saying they want to hold down expenses, Gulf Stream commissioners are changing their lineup of lawyers as the town appeals its federal racketeering case against Martin O’Boyle and Chris O’Hare.
Mayor Scott Morgan says Joanne O’Connor
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge appears to have found its next town manager in Jamie Titcomb, the former Palm Beach County League of Cities executive director.
Jamie Titcomb has been offered the town manager position in Ocean Ridge.
Jerry Lower/The Coast
By Rich Pollack
Ocean Ridge police say they have every intention of patrolling county parks within the town limits, but they’re hoping the county will lend a hand to help those parks — as well as an adjacent one in a county pocket — be safer during h
By Dan Moffett
Mayor Geoff Pugh has a plan to create a waterfront promenade and change the traffic flow in Ocean Ridge. And town commissioners say they like what they’ve heard so far.
Pugh’s idea is to make Old Ocean Boulevard a one-way street runnin
Wider sidewalks, more benches and open ocean vistas are among the proposed changes for the public beach in Delray Beach. Renderings by Currie Sowards and Aguila Architects
By Jane Smith
After waiting nearly seven years, the Beach Property Owners
By Dan Moffett
In a measured and strategic attack against the enemies of peace and quiet, Manalapan town commissioners are putting new restrictions on noisy residents.
The commission has given preliminary approval to an ordinance that sets a 65-decib
By Jane Smith
The Atlantic Crossing developers now say the delays caused by Delray Beach have cost them more than $25 million in rising construction costs, according to the amended lawsuit filed on Sept. 25.
The developers, Ohio-based Edwards CDS and
By Dan Moffett
South Palm Beach has narrowed its list of town manager candidates to six and hopes to interview them all on Oct. 8 at Town Hall.
“You did very well. These are very high-quality candidates,” said Kurt Bressner, the former Boynton Beach
A South Palm Beach police officer faces battery, dating violence and false imprisonment charges stemming from allegations his girlfriend made against him last month.
Mark McKirchy, a senior patrol officer and 22-year veteran of the town’s department,
Plein air artist Ralph Papa sets up his easel to continue working on a painting on a recent Friday in Delray Beach. Plein Air Palm Beach is partnering with the Delray Beach Historical Society to capture the city’s notable homes and buildings, with a
By Jane Smith
The Downtown Development Authority has a new executive director.
At its September board meeting, Associate Director Laura Simon was promoted unanimously to the position vacated by Marjorie Ferrer.
Simon started Oct. 1. She has a 12-m
Ocean Ridge’s Timothy Annis collects bottle caps instead of shells on the beach. He stores them in onion bags and recycles them to raise money to buy wheelchairs for veterans and others who need them.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Most people don’t
By Mary Thurwachter
Things are cooking at Mario’s Ocean Avenue, the Italian eatery that opened earlier this year in a location previously occupied by another restaurant, 225.
In August, Mario’s owner Henry Olmino got the Lantana Town Counc
By Jane Smith
After more than a decade of work, Federal Highway in Delray Beach is back to its roots as a thoroughfare with two lanes in each direction.
In the mid-1970s the road was widened to three lanes before the state Department of
As the moon was at its closest point to the Earth in late September, its strong gravitational pull
drew higher than normal tidal waters over seawalls and bulkheads along the coast. The annual
autumn event, called a ‘king tide,’ followed a rare total
Sargassum seaweed blankets the Ocean Ridge beach in July.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Cheryl Blackerby
Sargassum, the brown free-floating algae that turns up on Palm Beach County’s beaches every summer, is essential for marine life. The thi
By Jane Smith
One of the owners of the historic Sundy House in Delray Beach still wants to do a project at Lake Worth Beach, but under different terms.
Hudson Holdings, which also has an ownership stake in the historic Gulfstream Hotel in downt
