A comprehensive recap by Randy Schultz and Mary Kate Leming of the 1984 Karen Slattery murder and the status of her killer on Death Row won The Coastal Star journalists a top award from the Florida Press Club in its annual Excellence in Journalism Co
All Posts (13554)
Sort by
Artist’s rendering of the condos planned for the former site of the Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn. Rendering provided
By Dan Moffett
After months of silence, South Palm Beach officials and developer Gary Cohen are talking again about his Oceanfront
By Dan Moffett
Wellington Arms Condominium homeowners and developer William Swaim are lawyering up for a legal border war that could determine the fate of the mangrove-rich lagoon behind Ocean Ridge Town Hall.
For nearly two years, Swaim has been
By Dan Moffett
In May, Briny Breezes passed what it thought was a comprehensive golf cart ordinance that would clarify how and where residents can use their vehicles around town.
As it turns out, when it comes to golf carts, clarity is itself a mo
By Jane Smith
The Holiday Boat Parade will travel down the Intracoastal Waterway on Dec. 11 through Boynton Beach and Delray Beach for the 44th year, but the Delray Beach part almost didn’t happen.
The Delray Beach city manager, who just started in Jan
Trucks working on the renovation of Eau Palm Beach Resort’s outdoor restaurant and pool deck are parked near the south entrance to Lantana beach on Nov. 12. A temporary construction easement expires Dec. 15. Willie Howard/The Coastal Star
By Willie
By Jane Smith
Downtown Delray Beach restaurants that want to have sidewalk cafes on public property now have amended rules to follow.
City commissioners decided Nov. 10 that Atlantic Avenue restaurants east of the Intracoastal Waterway with a 6-foot pe
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach planning staff is reviewing the latest changes submitted by the proposed iPic movie theater to ensure the revisions comply with city rules and a commission directive to reduce the project’s size.
The question remains whether
Seasonal high tides inundated the walkway along the docks at Veterans Park in Delray Beach on Nov. 25. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach closed its public boat docks at Veterans Park in late November while it assesses the stabi
By Jane Smith
The county’s inspector general won’t be getting involved in the Delray Beach City Commission’s decision to allow an iPic movie theater to open in its downtown.
On Aug. 18, the City Commission held a quasi-judicial hearing on the
Jeanne Chwalick has been mentoring young twirlers in Palm Beach County for more than 50 years. Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Elliette Vancek, of Delray Beach keeps her eye on the baton during practice in the gym at St. Vincent Ferrer School.
Terry Fedele has been a vital part of the local health-care philanthropy scene since coming to Boca Raton with her husband, Jerry, seven years ago. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Her lengthy résumé might boggle the minds of some of the most avid volun
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca, one of the most famous love stories of all time.
Love stories can melt your heart, make you smile or leave you grasping for a handkerchief. Hollywood loves them, of course, but true love doesn’t only
The Delray Beach City Commission recognized the students with a proclamation on Nov. 3. Afterward, students and their host families took photos. Students Chisato Nagai (left), Nanako Umezaki (center), Kana Nakagawa and Nozomi Mukainaka (far right) a
The former Splashdown Divers building is reduced to rubble next to the Sea Mist III drift boat at Boynton Harbor Marina. Photo courtesy of Kim Weiss
By Jane Smith
The old dive shop building at the Boynton Harbor Marina was demolished as the last pie
By Ron Hayes
DELRAY BEACH — As chairman of the Boca Raton Resort & Club and director of Discover Palm Beach County, R. Scott Morrison helped pass a penny bed tax to benefit local cultural organizations.
In 1982, its first year, $1,251,000 was c
By Steven J. Smith
GULF STREAM — Robert Craft will be remembered perhaps more as an upholder of composer Igor Stravinsky’s legacy than as a noted orchestral conductor, writer and lecturer in his own right, according to music scholars Leon Botstein
By Steven J. Smith
SOUTH PALM BEACH — Bradley James Stewart Jr. was known as a jack-of-all-trades — and a master of pretty much all of them, according to his daughter, Sara Watson.
“He was an incredible handyman and was particularly gifted a
By Mary Thurwachter
LANTANA — Judy Black was passionate in promoting environmental conservation and committed to creating gardens.
“She was a leader in the environmental movement,” said Ilona Balfour, who worked for a number of years with M
By Mary Thurwachter
The site plan for Water Tower Commons, the new development at the former A.G. Holley site, will finally come before the Lantana Town Council on Dec. 14.
The plan was on the agenda in October and November, but the matter ha
