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
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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
Philanthropist Lois Pope sponsored an event organized by the American Humane Association
to honor Hollywood animal ‘actors’ Crystal and Hudson. Tova Leidesdorf made
a surprise donation of $50,000. Photo: Hudson, Pope,
American Humane Association Pres
Dr. Seth Baum
By Linda Haase
Let’s get to the heart of the matter. After all, February is American Heart Month.
And while lots of heart-shaped boxes have infiltrated stores nationwide, there are some not-so-sweet statistics:
• Heart disea
At Valentine’s, hearts beat with the power of pet affection
Potter, a Boston bull terrier and the canine companion of Zoanne and Neil Hennigan
of Ocean Ridge, looks forward to his Valentine’s treats.
Photo by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Arden Mo
Ocean Ridge resident Pat Kropp’s Clerodendrum flowers
have been attracting attention from passersby. If you know
of a distinctive plant display in your neighborhood,
please contact The Coastal Star at news@thecoastalstar.com.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal
The Grass River Garden Club provided beautiful holiday floral arrangements for the pediatric staff
at Bethesda Health. ‘I know the flowers brightened the nurses’ day,’ said Andrea H. Lambrakis,
community relations coordinator for Betheda Health, in a
Members of the Grass River Garden Club recently helped the students at Paul’s Place
replant their vegetable garden. Paul’s Place is an after-school program at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
in Delray Beach that serves children from the neighborhood. Whe
The Ferris wheel provides a nice view of the crowd, church, school grounds and the
neighborhood surrounding St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church and School.
Photo provided
By Tim Pallesen
The big festival at St. Vincent Ferrer this month isn’t ju
A snorkeler explores the remains of the Lofthus, located in 15 to 20 feet of water
off Manalapan. The ship, which wrecked 117 years ago, is a state-designated underwater archaeological preserve.
Photo by Dan Volker/South Florida Dive Journal
By Will
Alexis Base of Boynton Beach enjoys going to Ocean Inlet Park
with her family. The eighth-grader’s latest science project focuses on using
autonomous underwater vehicles to recognize and potentially harvest
non-native lionfish, which damage Florida’
At right, Igor Bobkov, tennis pro, works with Temur Ismailov,
currently ranked 522, Tuesday at the Pro World Tennis Center in Delray.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Steve Pike
For the uninitiated, tennis (except for doubles) is rarely viewed as
Students at a past Pink Shirt Day at South Olive Elementary School in West Palm Beach. Photo provided
By Shelley Gilken
On Feb. 25, there will be a sea of pink in South Florida. In classrooms, at businesses, at parks and government offices, pink shi
The original proposal for the Mizner on the Green “ultra-luxury” condo project called for 30 stories (as shown above), but the newest proposal is shorter and smaller. Rendering provided
By Mary Hladky
The New Mizner on the Green “ultra-luxury” cond
Ocean Ridge Police Chief, Chris Yannuzzi, addresses the standing-room-only audience during a special meeting Jan. 15.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Dan Moffett
A tumultuous week of anger and allegation ended in hugs and farewells as Ocean R
