The June Coastal Star cover story on the infamous Chillingworth murders took me back to my childhood, when I vividly remember reading an account of this horrific crime in “The Justice Story” of the New York Daily News. As an impressionable youngs
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Thank you to Lona O’Connor for writing the piece, “Bathroom is flush with creative campaign for colon health,” about Wendy and Jamie Greenhut and their efforts to raise awareness regarding inflammatory bowel diseases.
I was diagnosed with ulc
By Dan Moffett
Three months after leaving Princeton, N.J., and taking over as the town manager of South Palm Beach, Jim Pascale told residents they should think about whether the town should continue to exist.
Many were caught off guard. The
By Dan Moffett
Gulf Stream’s legal offensive against Martin O’Boyle and Chris O’Hare suffered a huge setback late last month when a West Palm Beach judge threw out the town’s federal racketeering suit against the two men.
U.S. District Cou
Gulf Stream School Class of 2015 students followed in the footsteps of previous classes by raising money for an improvement to the campus: this year, restoring the old train bell that sits on a podium in the middle of campus. Unveiling the restored b
Artist rendering of the proposed new complex that would be on Swinton Avenue.
Provided by Randall Stofft Architects
By Jane Smith
The Sundy House owners recently gave the Delray Beach Planning and Zoning Department preliminary plans for their pr
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
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
