By Dan Moffett
Organizers of a coastal fire district study are reaching out to the county pocket, believing its residents might benefit if a new arrangement for delivering emergency services goes forward.
Consultants are studying whether it is
Four columns in the library’s children’s area
were made to look like trees with faces on them.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
Contractors are finishing the new children’s area of the Delray Beach Public Library.
They’ve added 5,000
A private security camera took this image of a newer model, gray BMW convertible in the area
of Ridge Boulevard in Ocean Ridge. The subject exited the vehicle and checked for other unlocked cars
to either burglarize or steal, police say. Anyone who r
By Jane Smith
Two historic homes on Ocean Avenue in Boynton Beach are moving closer to becoming restaurants.
For the Magnuson House at 211 E. Ocean Ave., the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency board approved a 60-day extension in January for
By Rich Pollack
Plans to have Delray Beach continue to provide fire and rescue services to Highland Beach residents after a current contract expires next year hit a snag Feb. 2 when Delray Beach commissioners rejected a proposed agreement in whi
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge commissioners didn’t have to look far to find the successor for retiring Town Attorney Ken Spillias. They realized the right man for the job was already working in Town Hall.
Glen Torcivia, who has served as the t
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge commissioners and developer William Swaim have moved a step closer to clashing in court over access to the mangrove lagoon behind Town Hall.
For months, Swaim has been trying to persuade the Town Commission to all
Mayor David Cheifetz receives a round of applause after thanking the Strauss Foundation for the new library space.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
When the cellist Yehuda Hanani fills Manalapan’s J. Turner Moore Memorial Library with the
Lucille Flagello organizes casino trips in South Palm Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Lucille Flagello had no idea about the new home and community that were waiting for her when she moved to South Palm Beach in 2006.
“All I knew I was g
By Dan Moffett
South Palm Beach is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a nostalgic look back at classic American cars.
The town is expecting at least 40 vintage autos from the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s at the Plaza del Mar shopping center in Mana
South Palm Beach Town Manager Bogdan “Bob” Vitas Jr. said the remainder of the dilapidated Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn should be demolished this month.
Vitas said the Oceanfront Inn property, located across from Town Hall at 3550 S. Ocean Blvd.
By Dan Moffett
Work on Manalapan’s Audubon Causeway bridge is picking up momentum, Vice Mayor Peter Isaac said, and the project appears to have a chance to be completed on schedule and under budget.
After meeting with the project’s builder a
By Jane Smith
Guy Harvey hoopla has overtaken Boynton Beach.
“Who doesn’t like Guy Harvey?” Tom McClure responded when asked about a possible hotel going up in Boynton Beach. He is president of Boynton Intracoastal Group, which represent
South Palm Beach Mayor Bonnie Fischer, left, congratulates new Town Clerk Maylee De Jesus
after De Jesus was sworn in during the Jan. 26 council meeting. With De Jesus are her daughters, Marializ, left, and Veronica.
Willie Howard/The Coastal Star
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By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge residents turned out in droves to complain about Mayor Geoff Pugh’s ideas for overhauling Old Ocean Boulevard.
Pugh didn’t mind that at all. He said the main thing he wanted was for them to turn out in droves.
“It
By Scott Simmons
HIGHLAND BEACH — A little more than five years ago, Flossy Keesely sat down in her Highland Beach penthouse with The Coastal Star to talk about her long life for a profile.
She greeted her interviewer, prepared lunch and pooh-p
By Steven J. Smith
HIGHLAND BEACH — Teaching, mentoring and placing students into the workforce were the central missions of Judith Bartlewski’s life and truly defined her, said Paul Bartlewski, her husband of 43 years.
“Judi had such a passion
Three areas between Lake Worth and Boca Raton proposed as no-take zones where fishing, lobstering could be banned.
By Willie Howard
Divers, anglers, boaters and others who enjoy South Florida’s coral reefs came to the Delray Beach Public Library
By Dan Moffett
Briny Breezes soon will correct a decades-old oversight when the town formally assumes ownership of Old Ocean Boulevard.
Town Attorney John Skrandel says the Florida Department of Transportation has agreed to sign the road over to Br
By Mary Thurwachter
Lantana has promoted its community planner, Nicole Dritz, to town clerk.
Dritz, 30, has a bachelor’s degree in urban planning from Florida Atlantic University and has worked for the town for two years. She has worked on sit
