By Amy Woods
August in Boca Raton used to comprise 31 dragging, dripping, doldrum-like days. Not anymore. The month will outshine the summer sun with the arrival of Boca Chamber Festival Days.
The annual event that pairs for-profit businesses w
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By Thom Smith
Running may be the purest form of athletic endeavor, but except for the Olympics and the Boston Marathon, it is virtually ignored. So most people have never heard of the Schapperts.
Oh sure, folks connected with Pope John Paul
The Plate: Shrimp Kabob
Where: Two Georges at The Cove, 1754 SE Third Court, Deerfield Beach; 954- 421-9272 or www.twogeorgesrestaurant.com/thecove
The Price: $18.99
The Skinny: We have been craving shrimp lately. Call us prawns in the game of life.
But
By Mary Hladky
One year after announcing they were exploring a merger, WXEL-TV and WPBT2 have agreed to join forces.
The two public broadcasting stations will combine as South Florida PBS, reaching 2.42 million households from Key West to the S
With NASA's New Horizons spacecraft taking the first detailed pictures of Pluto this year, a Delray Beach man reflects on his involvement with "firsts" in space.
Little did Sid Schildkraut know that tinkering with the inner workings of radios at the
Caryn Foltz has sketched images of the area
and paired them with her thoughts that day in a book she calls SandScript.
Bruce Borich/The Coastal Star
The cover of Caryn Foltz’s book of drawings
and essays is derived from her first sketch.
By Ron Ha
I’ve lived on the barrier island for more than 30 years. I’m a big fan of home rule and local government. I enjoy being able to pick up the phone and talk with someone I know when I call Town Hall. I like it when police officers wave while I’m ou
Gerald Gitner poses with a collection of TWA model airplanes in his Highland Beach condo.
He is putting his extensive airline-management experience to good use
as chairman of the Highland Beach Financial Advisory Board.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
The recent article, “City/CRA shared-goals meeting takes a turn toward showdown” was more gossip-like than the journalistic quality your readers have come to expect.
First, a made-up “rift” (between city and CRA) that does not exist cannot “c
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
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
