By Mary Thurwachter
Full of enthusiasm and armed with chocolate, Denise “Dee” Treinen convened a meeting of the minds on the Lantana Nature Preserve on Jan. 20.
After business folks, town officials and members of the Lantana Nature Preserve C
By Jane Smith
Business owners at the Boynton Harbor Marina can exhale now that the city has found a short-term solution to a vexing parking problem.
At the January meeting of the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency board, CRA staff received t
By Ron Hayes
DELRAY BEACH — One summer day in the late 1920s, a little boy named Arthur Jaffe asked a librarian at the Carnegie Library in Butler, Pa., to recommend a book.
“She gave me a children’s abridged edition of Robinson Crusoe, and I c
By Mary Thurwachter
Council members in Lantana had a change of heart about installing parking meters in the town-owned parking lot on South Third Street off Lantana Road.
At the Jan. 26 town meeting, the council decided to look into lea
By Dan Moffett
Rob Sivitilli’s crusade to rescue the family’s imperiled 5011 building is looking for help from an unlikely white knight.
It’s Briny Breezes.
After failing to win approval for an ordinance that would grandfather the bu
By Dan Moffett
After 15 years as town attorney, Ken Spillias says he plans on retiring in 2016, and he is going to serve out his last year as an employee of Ocean Ridge.
Spillias won the Town Commission’s blessing for a new employment arrang
By Steven J. Smith
DELRAY BEACH — If you want an example of a life fully lived, look no further than the life of Suzanne “Barbara” Hayward Carpenter.
Born in New Orleans, La., on Nov. 16, 1922, Mrs. Carpenter and her family moved to New York wh
Catherine Jacobus is honorary chairwoman of the Circle of Hope gala.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Catherine Jacobus comes from a privileged background in New York City, but she learned early that being wealthy did not shield her from everything.
By Sallie James
Recently submitted plans for a waterside restaurant on the old Wildflower property don’t include any dock space, raising concerns that boaters who patronize the proposed eatery will take up dock space at nearby Silver Palm Park
John and Sheldon Goldstein (in rainbow vests) participate in a group same-sex wedding
Jan. 6 in Delray Beach.
Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Marcie Hall and Chris Porter of Delray Beach, together more than 30 years, were married.
Financial
By Jane Smith
FEMA has opened the final round of public appeals and comments on proposed changes to its Palm Beach County flood maps.
The 90-day period, which started Jan. 2, allows South County coastal communties to challenge the flood des
La Florentia, aka the Birthday Cake Castle, is this year’s Red Cross Show House,
and is on the Intracoastal Waterway just south of downtown Lake Worth.
Photo provided
INSET BELOW: Elkins; Register; Sheen
By Christine Davis
The 39th Red Cross Sho
By Steven J. Smith
MANALAPAN — A “Renaissance man” has both wide interests and expertise in several areas. Yet such a description fails to capture the full scope of Christos Papatheodorou and the extraordinary life he lived.
Mr. Papatheodoro
Children pose at their desks inside the old Boynton School, circa 1959. Today, the building is home to the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum & Learning Center. Photo provided
By Amy Woods
It’s not unusual for former students of the old Boynton School to
Eleven Salon & Spa celebrated its first decade of doing business with an aviation-themed party benefiting Wheels from the Heart. The evening saw more than 550 guests and featured the awarding of a Toyota minivan to Navy Reserve veteran Michele Trinid
One hundred fifty of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County’s top donors gathered for an elegant cocktail reception and dinner, where they heard from former Israeli ambassador Michael Oren and U.S. Rep Ted Deutch (D-Fla.). ‘We’re thrilled t
The council attracted nearly 50 arts fans to the first of two luncheons, this one featuring former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary Nancy Brinker. ABOVE: Peg Greenspon, Brinker and council President and CEO Rena Blades. Photo provided by Jacek Photo
The Cultural Council of Palm Beach County welcomed an audience of more than 200 to the series’ second social gathering, titled ‘A Conversation with Two Fascinating Couples.’ The evening featured celebrated photographer Harry Benson and wife and edito
The YMCA of South Palm Beach County’s board and staff members, along with volunteers, celebrated
the success of the 2014 campaign at a morning event with the theme ‘Stories.’ Guests shared their experiences with the agency and recognized the fact the
Celebrating its first anniversary, Angel Moms, a support group of Place of Hope at the Haven Campus in Boca Raton, welcomed 100 supporters of foster-care children to an event that featured a guest speaker addressing the topic of human trafficking. ‘B
