By Jane Smith
Stormwater runoff from agriculture areas in the west and from lawns in the eastern urban areas continues to plague the southern segment of the Lake Worth Lagoon.
Fewer seagrass plants were found in a 2013 survey, and it looks like
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Community Redevelopment Agency
Executive director’s salary: $123,188
Assistant director’s salary: $95,000
Employees: Seven full-time, one part-time to be hired
Board: Seven-person board, made up of five City Commission members and two community membe
Community Redevelopment Agency
Executive director’s salary: $0; city manager is executive director per an interlocal agreement.
Downtown manager’s salary: CRA pays 90 percent or $88,788
Employees: 4.98 full-time-equivalent positions. Each CRA emplo
Community Redevelopment Agency
Executive director’s salary: $136,200
Assistant director’s salary: $112,500
Employees: 10 full-time, two part-time employees work on the GreenMarket; two open part-time positions
Board: Seven-member board from the commu
By Rich Pollack
It looks like license-plate recognition cameras on State Road A1A and other state roads will be allowed to stay up after all — at least for now.
Last month, officials with the Florida Department of Transportation’s regional offi
By Jane Smith
The Boynton Woman’s Club received another plume for its bonnet when it was designated a Boynton Beach historic site.
The clubhouse, already on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979, was designed by Addison Mizner
By Jane Smith
After waiting for more than 10 years, Boynton Beach will finally get a project that could jump-start its downtown.
City commissioners sitting as the Community Redevelopment Agency board gave tentative approval to a $4.3 milli
Comparisons
Delray Beach: Marketing agencies | Boynton Beach: Community Redevelopment Agency | Boca Raton: Community Redevelopment Agency
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach has an alphabet soup of marketing agencies, three city commissioners say. They w
Hal Finkelstein (left) and Martin Kahn at the South Palm Beach SCORE office in Boca Raton.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Jay Waitkus
Martin Kahn says he likes “to see the good side of people, and see them make it.”
Kahn means it, too:
Rob Van Winkle, aka rapper Vanilla Ice, is offering to do a 13-episode TV show
about his renovation of this $10.5 million home in Manapalan.
Photo provided
By Christine Davis
Broker James Arena, of Arena and Company, which has headqua
IN THE ’50s
An aerial view of Boca Raton Inlet and Lake Boca Raton shows the property that includes the Boca Raton Resort & Club. That’s Camino Real curving eastward.
IN 2012
An aerial view of the land that includes the Boca Raton Resort & Club. In 1
A manually operated wooden drawbridge was built in 1916 on Palmetto Park Road, making beach access easier. This view is looking west over the bridge. On the right is the tender’s wife, Mrs. Townsend. Photos courtesy of the Boca Raton Historical Socie
Once homesteading was allowed in Florida, Thomas Moore Rickards was the first known settler to build a house. He settled in about 1897 along the east side of the Intracoastal Waterway. Photos courtesy of the Boca Raton Historical Society
By Deborah S
Thousands of people took part in the 20th annual Buddy Walk at John Prince Park Oct. 19. The event raised money for the Gold Coast Down Syndrome’s educational, social and advocacy programs and promotes awareness of the capabilities and talents of peo
Joseph Myrick, Peg Young, Helen Long, Robert Myrick, Mamie Myrick and William Myrick enjoy a day on the beach in this photo by Laurence Gould, taken 1914-1917. Courtesy of the Boca Raton Historical Society
The year is 1958; the view is south on Fede
About 1,500 people came to Mizner Park for the first Walk to End Alzheimer’s, which raised $120,000. Photo provided
Six teams of volunteers ‘competed’ with one another during Boca Helping Hands’ Miracle Chef event Oct. 17. The teams prepared dishes using nothing but recovered food, drawing attention to the need for food recovery in our community. Supporters and
By Rich Pollack
It took a couple of votes and close to 30 minutes of sometimes heated discussion, but Highland Beach town commissioners finally agreed at their October meeting to hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house to show off the recent
By Rich Pollack
Buoyed by the success of last year’s inaugural event, the Friends of the Highland Beach Library will again host a wine and cheese fundraiser featuring entertainment and drawings for an assortment of prizes.
Set for 5:30 to 7
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach was all abuzz last month when part of a beehive on State Road A1A fell to the ground and hundreds of bees began chasing pedestrians strolling on the town’s walking path.
More than four hours after a walker flagge
