The Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine celebrated a long-anticipated event with much fanfare as its inaugural class became the nation’s newest physicians. During the medical school’s first-ever commencement, faculty, family, friends and dignitari
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Boca West Community Charitable Foundation’s annual event, which this year starred Jay Leno, raised $1.3 million for local children’s charities. The two-day affair attracted a record 500 golfers and 800 auction attendees. Nearly 1,500 attended the con
Members elected a new board, honored volunteers and heard a talk on the 25-year history of Gumbo Limbo Nature Center after President Joyce DeVita called the meeting to order and recapped the achievements and goals of the society during the past year.
An estimated 300 guests gathered to help the Woman’s Club of Delray Beach raise more than $7,000 for six local charities, a youth-leadership program and scholarships. The event featured a selection of both savory and sweet treats offered up by more t
The Plate: Key Lime Cone
The Place: Park Avenue BBQ & Grille, 1198 N. Dixie Highway, Boca Raton; 416-7427 or pabbqgrille.com
The Price: $4.50
The Skinny: We all love Key lime pie, right? After all, eating the tart, creamy confection is one of the perks
Copperpoint Brewing Company is one of many local brewers that will benefit from the change in state regulations allowing for the sales of ‘growlers.’ Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Thom Smith
So much for the 2015 regular session of the Florida Leg
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach could soon own the Artists Alley warehouses after its Community Redevelopment Agency board agreed in late May to send a letter of intent to purchase the property.
The four warehouses occupy 32,636 square feet of space in Pine
By Dan Moffett
After months of telling South Palm Beach residents he was committed to building an architectural jewel where the dilapidated Oceanfront Inn now stands, developer Gary Cohen has quietly put the site up for sale. Cohen purchased
Summer is a time for families to have fun, relax and enjoy time together away from the daily routine, but it’s also a time when school aged children can fall behind academically. Studies show that some students lose anywhere from one to three months
The Center for Gifted and Talented Youth (CGTY), which meets in the Sandoway House in east Delray Beach, celebrated the end of their first year in operation.
The students finished the school year with a picnic and a hovercraft competition which the st
By Teresa Bono
When you’ve done as many good deeds as Farm Sanctuary President, Gene Baur, you’re bound to get a good karmic return. So when the Dietary Council Association 2015 report endorsed a plant-based diet for better health and a greener pla
By Dan Moffett
On a 4-1 vote May 4, Ocean Ridge commissioners decided the town should enter the court case and oppose the recall movement against Commissioner Richard Lucibella.
Town Attorney Ken Spillias told the commission he had examined the re
By Mary Hladky
The New Mizner on the Green “ultra-luxury” condo project has a new name, a new architect and a completely new look.
The project’s prominent “starchitect” Daniel Libeskind, whose list of credits includes the original master plan for re
By Tao Woolfe
The Palm Beach County property appraiser's staff is still crunching numbers, so the specific municipal increases in property taxes for 2015 are not yet available. But Property Appraiser Gary R. Nikolits, spoke about the general upwards
By Tim Pallesen
Delray Beach has dropped out of a lawsuit to determine how cities pay for the county Inspector General’s Office.
“The Inspector General has been instrumental in helping us focus on best practices,” Mayor Cary Glickstein said in explaini
By Dan Moffett
Lawyers for the town of Gulf Stream are having a good spring, winning three court rulings in cases raised by Martin O’Boyle and Chris O’Hare, the town’s litigious duo.
Meanwhile, Town Manager William Thrasher says his early budget estim
Let me say up front that this is not about the former Ocean Ridge police chief. It is not even about what led up to his more-than-$80,000 settlement with the town. This is about the right of taxpayers to know how the government they support operates.
Louise Mirkin poses in front of a portrait of The Faulk Center founder, Dr. Elizabeth H. Faulk. Faulk, the first woman to receive a doctorate in psychology from the University of Florida, established a successful private practice in Boca Raton. Tim S
By Jane Smith
The Winn-Dixie grocery store’s absence from Riverwalk Plaza cleared the way for the center’s owner to plan a better use of the nearly 10-acre property. The 119,199-square-foot shopping center sits along Woolbright Road, from Federal High
SOURCE: PBC Property Appraiser. Graphic by Bruce Borich/The Coastal Star
By Dan Moffett
Developer William Swaim wants Ocean Ridge to create an access road to property he wants to buy in the mangrove-filled lagoon behind Town Hall.
Residents along the
