By Sallie James
The Boca Raton City Council postponed discussion of an ordinance that would give city lawmakers a raise, planning to address in January the possibility of setting the wage level at a percentage of Palm Beach County Commission salar
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By Steve Plunkett
Boca Raton City Council members are shrewd negotiators, it turns out.
Barely a month after the Hillstone Restaurant Group withdrew its proposal to build an eatery on the city-owned Wildflower site, it’s back at the negotiating
By Rich Pollack
Saying he’s achieved what he was selected to do when he was appointed to serve on the Boca Raton Airport Authority, Boca Raton Deputy Mayor Robert Weinroth resigned last month from the independent board that oversees airport operat
By Steve Plunkett
Boca Raton is reviving a 4-year-old plan to rejuvenate Lake Wyman Park, but will not install temporary park facilities at its Wildflower property.
The City Council in a Dec. 7 workshop made a commitment to pursue a multimillio
By Steven J. Smith
Restaurateur Arturo Gismondi confirmed he intends to convert the historic Luff House into a restaurant by this time next year.
The two-story, 2,492-square-foot Luff House — named for pioneer residents Theodore and Harriet
By Christine Davis
A Highland Beach pre-real-estate-crash spec house at 3621 S. Ocean Blvd. with 200 feet on the ocean, was recently torn down as part of an $11 million deal to develop six upscale townhouses on the site.
Boca Raton agents Frank Jich
By Sallie James
A city decision to allow construction of a four-story beachside mega-mansion on an undersized oceanfront parcel is having a ripple effect.
In the wake of the controversial Dec. 8 City Council decision, the Greater Boca Raton
For a child living on beachfront,
intrigue of wartime was exciting
Seen from the Atlantic Ocean is the Sanborn house (left), where Dr. Peter Barrett
recalls a suspected spying incident took place in 1942. The Boca Raton Villas ar
at the center and th
By Rich Pollack
After months of negotiation, the town of Highland Beach is close to signing a fire and rescue service agreement with Delray Beach that would make it possible to have a new fire truck and a new rescue truck in its station.
Last
New Highland Beach Library Director Lois Albertson (left) with Suzi Hayes,
who is stepping down as the director of the library but will stay part time, working 20 hours a week.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Lois Albertson and the H
'There is no one here who can guarantee how this is going to unfold,’ state Rep. Bill Hager said
about a new bill targeting dubious practices associated with the drug-rehab industry. He spoke during
a news conference at Delray Beach City Hall. ABOVE:
Ocean Ridge Town Clerk Karen Hancsak sits at her post on the Town Hall dais. She retires Jan. 29.
Photo by Tim Stepien
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge is bracing itself for a case of institutional amnesia the likes of which few communities have ever s
As I sit at my desk the day after Christmas — with several extra pounds on my waist and a purring office cat on my lap — I think about how much there is to be thankful for as we slip into the New Year.
Because I’m in the business of publishi
A domestic abuse survivor, Jeannette DeOrchis will co-chair AVDA’s Heart of a Woman Luncheon on Jan. 20.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Jeannette DeOrchis has a great career as a certified financial planner and senior vice presiden
By Dan Moffett
During Jamie Titcomb’s interviews for the Ocean Ridge town manager’s job last summer, he told commissioners that one of his strongest attributes was an ability to assemble talented teams of employees. Titcomb didn’t have to look
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach officials took the high road when responding to the second amended complaint filed by the Atlantic Crossing developers in federal court for the Southern District of Florida.
The response, filed Dec. 14, kept to th
In your last issue, I read a letter submitted by Ed Harris of the National Humane Society. In it he suggests that the collection of ivory is a barbaric, horrendous and shameful hobby that should be ended.
It is well-known that his group is at
Florida Highway Patrol Officer Paul Croy speaks to a group of cyclists he pulled over in Highland Beach
after observing them violating a law regarding road-sharing. None of the cyclists received a ticket.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
By Dan Moffett
It should surprise no one in Gulf Stream that Mayor Scott Morgan and the town’s two litigious residents, Martin O’Boyle and Chris O’Hare, look back on 2015 with radically different opinions about their dueling court cases.
O’Boy
The new Florida congressional map includes redrawn South Florida boundaries:
District 21 - Ted Deutch
District 22 - Lois Frankel.
Deutch and Frankel have agreed to switch districts.
SOURCE: League of Women Voters
By Dan Moffett
After months of unce
