By Dan Moffett
A heated exchange during a deposition hearing has led a lawyer for the town of Gulf Stream to ask for legal sanctions against Martin O’Boyle.
Attorney Robert Sweetapple says O’Boyle physically threatened him while he was quest
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Beach walkers found dead birds washing up on the sand on the morning of June 25 — not sea birds but the headless remains of chickens and ducks.
Ocean Ridge police scoured the town beach after receiving reports from beachgoers and collected the
By Jane Smith
Forty-five residents, business owners, band members and festival organizers trotted before the Delray Beach City Commission on a Tuesday night in June. They gave two-minute pitches on special events.
Most favored the events becaus
By Jane Smith
The Downtown Development Authority will spend about $25,000 of its approximately $750,000 budget next year on a pilot parking plan for downtown Delray Beach restaurant workers. Starting in October, the agency will run its proposed pa
By Dan Moffett
Manalapan’s Audubon Causeway bridge project is turning into a remake of the 1968 western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
The good: Because of some unexpected windfalls into its general fund, the town won’t have to take money o
INSET BELOW: Steve Cooper
By Dan Moffett
Briny Breezes solved one of its staffing problems in June with the hiring of Steve Cooper as the town’s new deputy clerk.
Cooper, a Boston native, left his job as a health care consultant and retired
By Dan Moffett
The recall movement against Ocean Ridge Town Commissioner Richard Lucibella died in a Palm Beach County courtroom when a circuit judge ruled that petitions seeking his ouster were legally flawed.
Judge Gregory Keyser found tha
By Jane Smith
The fate of the old Boynton Beach High School and the county possibly providing public safety services will be discussed at the Aug. 4 Boynton Beach City Commission meeting.
The topics were named priorities at the city’s strategic
Workers prepare another burial site
on the south end of the cemetery.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach no longer has single plots to sell in its Boynton Memorial Park Cemetery, and only 300 plots remain at its Sara Sims Ce
By Willie Howard
Lake Worth officials want the right to regulate disposable plastic shopping bags — an avoidable convenience that can blow into waterways, harm marine life and clog recycling systems and storm drains.
On June 16, Lake Worth city
Illustrations from the book include nurses in front of the Boca Raton Army Airfield hospital (above),
and Lt. Manny Chavez talking to his crew before a training mission in 1943 (below).
Chavez still lives in Palm Beach County.
Photos provided
By Ste
David Gensman, owner of the the Green Owl, posing
with his 7-year-old daughter, Samantha, said he has worked
in the Delray Green Owl since 1983. He took it over in 1995.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Dave Gensman has heard the rumo
Brenda Zappitell with her paintings at Baker Sponder Gallery.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Brenda Hope Zappitell definitely knows how to color her world.
For this Delray Beach artist, no shade is off limits. Although the artist is drawn to t
Alice Meiners bought Gulfstream Travel in 1990
and loves the fact that it is a ‘neighborhood travel agency.’
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Linda Haase
“People always tell me: You are always traveling,” quips Alice Meiners.
And why not? She
By Jane Smith
The Little House will become the Little Pizza Shack in October.
The Boynton Beach City Commission unanimously approved selling the historic home at $10,000 below appraised value. The commission’s mid-June decision cleared the pat
Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa managers (l-r) Michael Oakes, Nick Gold,
Catherine Warren and Michelle Phillips take a break from hammering.
Photo provided
By Christine Davis
On June 9, Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa managers traded their Manalapan oce
When sea turtles hatch in the dark, they make their way to the ocean
like these three little loggerheads.
File Photo
A cooler with instructions for leaving hatchlings
sits near the front door of the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal
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‘Free flow’ is focus of airport board
By Rich Pollack
One of two newly appointed members to the Boca Raton Airport Authority has proposed changes to the rules governing the organization, which
Related story: ‘Free flow’ is focus of airport board
By Rich Pollack
It took a little under two hours for the Boca Raton City Council and the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Parks District to resolve several lingering issues during a joint meeting
By Rich Pollack
A Boca Raton police officer who fired his gun at a fleeing car and then chased it along State Road A1A from Camino Real into Broward County at speeds of up 109 miles per hour has lost his job.
Officer James Clark was fired foll
