Let me say up front that this is not about the former Ocean Ridge police chief. It is not even about what led up to his more-than-$80,000 settlement with the town. This is about the right of taxpayers to know how the government they support operates.
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Louise Mirkin poses in front of a portrait of The Faulk Center founder, Dr. Elizabeth H. Faulk. Faulk, the first woman to receive a doctorate in psychology from the University of Florida, established a successful private practice in Boca Raton. Tim S
By Jane Smith
The Winn-Dixie grocery store’s absence from Riverwalk Plaza cleared the way for the center’s owner to plan a better use of the nearly 10-acre property. The 119,199-square-foot shopping center sits along Woolbright Road, from Federal High
SOURCE: PBC Property Appraiser. Graphic by Bruce Borich/The Coastal Star
By Dan Moffett
Developer William Swaim wants Ocean Ridge to create an access road to property he wants to buy in the mangrove-filled lagoon behind Town Hall.
Residents along the
Ocean Ridge police officer Richard Jones stops in Briny Breezes to talk with Judy Dugan and her dog Rudy. Jones recently suggested that Briny might be served by a bicycle patrol to allow for easier movement in the community and promote more interact
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge town commissioners have decided they already have their best police chief candidate in uniform.
The Town Commission unanimously approved interim Chief Hal Hutchins as the permanent choice on April 6 and abandoned plans to adv
By Mary Thurwachter
They were talking trash at the Lantana Town Council meeting on April 13, and it wasn’t the first time. Some residents continue to put yard trimmings curbside on the wrong day and other residents are complaining about the lingering
By Mary Thurwachter
Grand theft charges will be dropped against Robert Matthew Van Winkle, aka rapper Vanilla Ice, as long as he fulfills a plea deal that will have him doing 100 hours of community service and meeting a few other conditions during the
Lake Boca was filled with boats, partiers and music on April 26 for Boca Bash, an annual party on the Intracoastal Waterway between the Camino Real and Palmetto Park Road bridges. The Boca Bash takes place each spring. In the foreground is a boat ope
Artist’s rendering of a gazebo to be built on Delray Beach. Provided by Currie Sowards Aguila Architects
By Tim Pallesen
The citizen-inspired beautification of Delray’s municipal beach continues with the construction of two gazebos to begin this mont
By Dan Moffett
Palm Beach County Circuit Court Judge Gregory Keyser has scheduled a May 6 hearing to consider whether organizers of the movement to recall Ocean Ridge Town Commissioner Richard Lucibella have submitted legally valid petitions.
Lucibe
Delray Beach, Fla. – Harbour’s Edge senior living community is breaking ground on a $20 million renovation project to enhance the community and best position it to serve the dynamic population of seniors in the area. The project will focus on buildin
By Jane Smith
For the first time in more than 19 years, Delray Beach will offer a summer GreenMarket. The question is where.
Market Manager Lori Nolan proposed the Block 60 parking lot on Northwest First Avenue, just east of the Tennis Center
In the early days, the school founded in 1964 was referred to as the Wee Wisdom School, and VW microbuses served as student transportation. Photo provided
By Ron Hayes
If you want to know why the Unity School of Delray Beach has flourished for 50 year
A resident maneuvers a golf cart into Briny Breezes, where the use of non-street-legal golf carts
such as this one has been determined to be illegal.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Drive your golf cart on a public road in Ocean Ridg
FAU professor John Hardman draws a chalk line through the Marina Historic District in Delray Beach. As part of an Earth Day art performance, participants took turns using the wheeled marker to draw a line along the 4-foot mark, which is an average of
By Tim Pallesen
Atlantic Crossing has received preliminary city approval for a critical plat that is necessary before the $200 million mixed-use project can get construction permits.
The plat that was approved by a 5-1 vote of the city’s Planning and Z
By Tim Pallesen
It began with a request to give homeless people a shower — and ended with city commissioners saying the Caring Kitchen must move.
Christians Reaching Out to Society, known as CROS Ministries, serves nearly 100,000 hot meals to poor peop
Coach Ted Green gives player August Slat
a hug after August got a solid hit and ran the bases.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Kevin Taylor is greeted with a series of high fives as he rounds third base on Miracle League Opening Day in Delray Beach.
Pho
By Jane Smith
Reality came in the form of defined goals and clear objectives for the Delray Beach City Commission and its Community Redevelopment Agency board.
Seeing their plans in black and white created a somber mood among both groups when t
