By Dan Moffett
When Palm Beach County voters overwhelmingly approved the creation of an Inspector General’s Office in 2010, they made a binding contract with cities and towns that requires them to help pay for the new watchdog.
That is the centerpiece
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By Jane Smith
Delray Beach needs to provide Disney-style service for its downtown to maintain its image as a world-class destination, said Don Cooper, its new city manager.
But achieving that high level of service is difficult and costly in
Editor Mary Kate Leming and Publisher Jerry Lower, were honored by the Boys and Girls Club.
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When we started The Coastal Star in November 2008, the last thing we anticipated was to be recognized with a community award.
After many year
Harvey and Virginia Kimmel have funded a six-figure matching grant to jump-start the expansion of the children’s section at the Delray Beach Public Library. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Virginia and Harvey Kimmel were renting an apartm
By Rich Pollack
Plans to install license-plate recognition cameras along State Road A1A are moving forward, but not as quickly as many from the law enforcement agencies involved had hoped.
Late last month, Highland Beach town officials gave Pol
By Dan Moffett
Manalapan town commissioners are blaming their engineering consultant for grossly underestimating the cost of replacing the Audubon Causeway bridge, and now they’re looking to replace the consultant, too.
Mayor Pro Tem Peter Isaa
Steve Dolan, (l) a New York visitor, chats with his host Bob Hunt of Manalapan, while they sort through books
for sale at the J. Turner Moore Memorial Library on March 21. The annual event helps to clear shelf space
and serves as a fundraiser for the
By Tim Pallesen
Coastal residents may soon see some relief from beachgoers who park on their narrow residential streets.
Delray’s city engineer is working with the Beach Property Owners Association to identify streets that are too narrow to saf
By Tim Pallesen
Coastal homeowners are being urged to take individual action before their premiums for flood insurance skyrocket at the end of this year.
“This is grim for some of you,” Beach Property Owners Association vice president Andy Katz
Gail Adams Aaskov (left) and Geoffrey Pugh are sworn into office March 25
by Ocean Ridge Town Clerk Karen Hancsak. Town Manager Ken Schenck observes.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Dan Moffett
Absentee voting proved decisive as two incumbents
By Dan Moffett
Embattled Commissioner Richard Lucibella has filed suit in Palm Beach County Circuit Court, seeking a temporary injunction and an emergency hearing to halt the recall movement against him.
Lucibella, in a written response to r
New Delray Beach City Commissioner Mitch Katz is sworn into office March 31 alongside his family,
(l-r) son, Hayden, wife, Heather, and daughter Shayna.
Mayor Cary Glickstein is sworn in for a second term. With him are his children, (l-r) Jack Glick
By Dan Moffett
Briny Breezes and other mobile home communities that complained for months about their insurance problems appear finally to have gotten through to Tallahassee.
Citizens Property Insurance has announced that it will begin acceptin
By Jane Smith
Ocean Ridge, Briny Breezes and county pocket residents will soon have drinking water without added fluoride.
Their water supplier, Boynton Beach Utilities, took one of its two fluoride tanks offline at the end of January and the
The Little House property at 480 E. Ocean Ave.
The Oscar Magnusen house at 211 E. Ocean Ave.
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By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach held its own version of the Shark Tank television show in March when its Community Redevelopment Agency board l
Suzy Lanigan (with black Lab Molly) has made Impact 100 a family affair.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
The motto of Impact 100 Palm Beach County, the women’s charitable organization, is “One Woman, One Meeting, One Vote.” But for Suzy Lanigan of
Woodrow ‘Woody’ Gorbach (above) and Bernice ‘Bonnie’ Fisher (below) are sworn into office.
Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Dan Moffett
South Palm Beach Town Council members had planned to give final approval to two ordinances that woul
For the 15th consecutive year, Delray Beach has been designated as a Tree City USA community by the National Arbor Day Foundation. The honor recognizes the city for its commitment to urban forestry management and environmental improvements.
Fo
Lantana Police Officer Brian Gibson was recognized as the department’s 2014 Employee of the Year during the March 9 Town Council meeting. Police Chief Sean Scheller said Gibson, who had been honored as Employee of the Second Quarter previously, h
SOUTH PALM BEACH — They say a cat has nine lives, but with all due respect to felines, any cat would have been happy to have lived the many lives of Robert “Bob” Welstein, who died on March 15 at the age of 96. Mr. Welstein lived many lives duri
