By Tao Woolfe
Big league-style negative campaign messages have already reshaped the City Council race, sidelining one of four candidates seeking Vice Mayor Constance Scott’s seat.
The non-partisan election will be held March 10.
In the
The Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum had its 18th annual event celebrating those who have been leaders in shaping the future of the city. ABOVE: Andrea Garcia, honoree Connie Siskowski and sponsor Alyce Erickson. Photo provided
By Sallie James
How much is that doggy in the window? And where-oh-where did that doggy come from?
When it comes to finding the canine companion of your dreams, Boca Raton city officials are hoping you will take a pass on that pet store pup an
Stiletto Race: Fashion Week, Delray Beach – Jan. 23
The third annual Vince Canning Stiletto Race took place along Southeast Fourth Avenue in downtown Delray Beach, with registration proceeds going to the Achievement Centers for Children and Families.
By Sallie James
Another small part of Boca Raton is going to the dogs — little dogs, to be exact — and city officials couldn’t be happier.
A compact dog park, at 131 S. Federal Highway, has opened adjacent to Camden Boca Raton apartments un
Ann Witte at her desk
INSET BELOW: Glenn Gromann
By Mary Hladky
The place was jammed.
So many people attended the January meeting of the Federation of Boca Raton Homeowner Associations that city workers opened a partition to enlarge the Boca R
By Mary Hladky
Although many Boca Raton residents are passionate about keeping low building heights in the downtown, the City Council has opened the door a bit wider to allowing taller structures.
The council voted 3-2 on Jan. 13 to allow owner
By Rich Pollack
Three seats on the Highland Beach Town Commission will be filled following the March 10 municipal election.
The ballot will include a referendum seeking voter approval for two major water infrastructure improvement projects, wi
All’s square between the city and the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District for the first time in years.
The district paid an unexpected almost $2 million for a beach renourishment project that Boca Raton thought the federal government wo
By Sallie James
Boca Raton police officers will receive annual 2 percent raises for the next three years under a three-year contract that also requires police personnel to contribute more to their pension plan.
Similarly, city firefighters w
The Rotary Club of Boca Raton’s 17th annual Outstanding People and Leader’s Gala, OPAL, was held on Jan. 10 at Boca West. Besides the honorees, Richard Young, a 50-year Rotary member, received the Rotary’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Photo: OPAL hono
The Plate: Chicken Tacos
The Place: The Beach Club on the Waterfront, Lake Worth Golf Course, 1 Seventh Ave. N., Lake Worth; 585-8976 or beachclublakeworth.com
The Price: $10.95
The Skinny: If you haven’t been to the Lake Worth golf course, you need to
Built in the 1920s, The historic Luff House is one of the few remaining bungalows
that used coral rocks for the foundation, chimney and face.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Steven J. Smith
The immediate prospects of the Luff House, a historic
It was a construction site accident with several critically injured patients and the quick actions of three Boca firefighter/paramedics saved all the patients’ lives. The trio, who were competing in the Fire Rescue East Conference in Daytona Beac
By Steven J. Smith
BOCA RATON — Gus Centrone said if he had to sum up the life of his sister Elena in a brief sentence, it would be that she was a giver to others; one who always put another’s needs above her own.
Born on Feb. 14, 1951, in Phil
By Emily J. Minor
HIGHLAND BEACH — Hank Peters, a longtime Major League Baseball executive whose gut instincts about young talent helped the long-deprived Cleveland Indians reach the World Series in 1995, died Jan. 4 in hospice care near his Highl
Pascale Troupin-Castania displays her gourmet product line at the Delray Beach Green Market.
Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
Pascale Troupin-Castania lives in a jam-filled world in Delray Beach.
From the bounty of her back
The Olivia Kiebach Garden is a delight to visitors from any angle. Here, a child is dwarfed by the hugh buttressed roots of the kapok tree.
Munching on the leaf of a milkweed, these caterpillars will mature into monarch butterflies.
Brown seeds dangl
By Tao Woolfe
After 50 years of standing behind local artists and their work, the Delray Beach Art League is stepping out to celebrate its own creation.
It will do so in high style, of course, with a four-day art festival — from Feb. 26 to Marc
The International Kinetic Art Exhibit will fill downtown Boynton Beach with art in motion.
By Jane Smith
Fine art will meet hard science when Boynton Beach hosts the International Kinetic Art Exhibit and Symposium Feb. 7 and 8. The event and year
