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
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Coach Ted Green gives player August Slat
a hug after August got a solid hit and ran the bases.
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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
Beachgoers packed the oceanfront daily in Delray Beach, making it difficult to find a parking spot or parcel of sand.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
You can credit bad weather up North, the recovering national economy or the growing
The 15.65-acre Ziff estate reaches from the Atlantic Ocean to Intracoastal Waterway, dominating this aerial view of Manalapan north of the Boynton Inlet. Photo/Bing Maps
By Christine Davis
People born under the astrological sign Gemini are said to l
By Sallie James
A standing-room-only crowd of nearly 300 staunch supporters and fierce opponents of a controversial beachside synagogue packed Boca Raton City Hall last month for a showdown about the project’s site plan.
But they left without r
By Sallie James
Calling Boca Raton’s recently negotiated police and fire contracts a “reset” and a compromise, City Council members in April voted 4-1 to approve the long overdue agreements.
The contracts are expected to save the city approxima
Dignitaries and the creators of the ‘Garden Of Humanity’ take part in the dedication and ribbon-cutting in downtown Boca Raton.
Rev. Fr. Paren Galstyan, pastor of St. David Armenian Apostolic Church in Boca Raton, stands
before a monument to Albert E
Caren Neile, storytelling class leader, holds a microphone
up to Ellie Lingner as she tells a story at the Boca Raton Public Library.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
This is a story about the importance of stories.
“When you tell a st
By Dan Moffett
The 144 property owners on Point Manalapan can expect to receive a survey ballot in the mail this month that asks their opinions about installing natural gas service.
The Town Commission will use the responses to decide if there is en
INSET BELOW: Beverly Brown
By Rich Pollack
The Highland Beach Town Commission unanimously voted last month to appoint interim Town Manager Beverly Brown to the position permanently.
Brown had served as the Highland Beach town clerk for eight y
By Sallie James
A plan to build a Houston’s restaurant on the old Wildflower property near the Intracoastal Waterway continues to draw ire.
At a Planning and Zoning meeting last month to change the density and zoning of the northern part of the
Helen Burns, director of admissions at Gulf Stream School, is surrounded by a group of first-grade students. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
When Gulf Stream School closes for the summer, Helen Burns will say goodbye to the staff and students just like
Plans to enclose two terraces at the Highland Beach Library are estimated to cost $150,000.
2013 file photo Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Long-discussed plans to enclose two terraces at the Highland Beach Library may be stalled onc
OCEAN RIDGE — After a long battle with pancreatic cancer, Bernd Anton Schulte died peacefully at his home in Ocean Ridge on April 15. Mr. Schulte was born on Aug. 28, 1942, to German parents residing in Sofia, Bulgaria, joining a growing family that
By Rich Pollack
A Friday afternoon bike ride on State Road A1A turned into a tragedy when a car that veered off the roadway struck a Highland Beach couple.
The couple, 70-year-old Patricia Goldstein and her husband, 75-year-old Howard Epste
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach will soon have two Italian restaurants that are operated by the same person despite efforts not to choose just one company for the eateries.
The city’s Community Redevelopment Agency board tapped Sal Campanile to negotiat
William Peppler flies north along Florida’s coastline above Delray Beach in a 1967 Piper Navajo.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Tao Woolfe
William Peppler cannot move or speak. The 10-year-old spends most days surveying the world from his small
A frangipani bloom at the Mounts Nursery.
Extracta green sage.
Tom Hewitt (left) speaks to customers at the Mounts Nursery.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
Anyone who visits Mounts Botanical Garden in West Palm
By Dan Moffett
Four years ago, Bonnie Fischer won a seat on the South Palm Beach Town Council and quickly made beach restoration her priority.
In March, she won the town’s election for mayor. Her priority hasn’t changed and neither have the questi
