By Sallie James
The Boca Raton City Council approved a year-long moratorium on the operation of medical marijuana treatment centers and dispensing or cultivation facilities.
The law gives the city time to address possible land- development regu
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By Sallie James
An upscale Mizner Park jazz club that features live entertainment could be staying open until 4 a.m. on weekends under a six-month pilot program.
Jazziz Nightlife, at 201 Plaza Real in Boca Raton, wants to keep its doors open t
Jim Prewozniak, executive director of the Holy Cross Medical Group (center), fields questions during an open house to celebrate
the opening of its Urgent Care and Imaging Center at 1799 S. Federal Highway in Boca Raton.
Music, refreshments, giveaways
The Boca Raton Garden Club’s annual Holiday House fundraiser will be held Nov. 14-16 at the clubhouse, 4281 NW 3rd Ave.
The hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday.
“Our members have been busy creating h
Kim Weiss captured images of sunrises from the terrace of her Boynton Beach apartment. Photo provided
By Steve Pike
“There is never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.’’ — Carlos Santana
Kim Weiss can relate to a guitar legend’s senti
Members of the community-outreach-focused congregation helped make a difference in the lives of others
during the synagogue’s High Holy Days hunger program — among them, ‘Feed My Community,’ in which
more than 5,000 bags were filled with 18,000-plus
Bo Reynolds’ music draws from the neighborhoods (like Briny Breezes) near his home in the county pocket.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
In 1999, when Bo Reynolds lived in Austin, Texas, he wrote and recorded an album called Out Of Texas.
In 200
Alan Jacobson opened Plaza Theatre in 2012. The Coastal Star/file photo
By Bill Hirschman
The Plaza Theatre in Manalapan declared bankruptcy and closed its doors Oct. 17 on the day that it was poised to begin its third season.
Meager season subscri
By Steven J. Smith
BOCA RATON — You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who knew the city of Boca Raton and its history better than Peggy McCall.
Mrs. McCall served as volunteer archivist for the Boca Raton Historical Society for more than 25 y
By Jane Smith
HIGHLAND BEACH — For the annual Delray Beach St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Margaret Ann “Muffie” Liebler hired a semi-trailer and decorated it.
“She always had a float,” said her daughter Heather Phelps. Her floats won many first
A sampling of the foods the Cornucopia project provides to the needy.
Flowers and cornucopia provided by Lynda Tatara of The Blossom Shoppes in Boynton Beach.
Photo by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
INSET BELOW: Sherry Johnson
Cornucopia program del
April Markee (left, in pink) leads an hourlong fitness program along A1A in Delray Beach. The program provides
new moms an opportunity to meet other local moms and their babies while getting fit.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Linda Haase
Squat
Jorge Mendiola demonstrates an exercise with his golden retriever, Shaylee,
during ‘Furry Fitness,’ an exercise program developed for dogs and their owners.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Arden Moore
While we are full of good intentions, many of
Cuban knight anoles, which prefer to perch head-down
in trees, are hard to miss with their neon-green coloring.
The lizard also has a brown phase. Both of these
were photographed in the same pigeon plum tree in Ocean Ridge.
Photos by Jerry Lower/ The
Benches provide visitors with a comfortable place to rest and observe nature.
A banana spider’s web glistens in the morning sun.
Boardwalks and gravel trails make getting around
in the 4.6-acre preserve an easy task for nature lovers of all ages.
BEL
Ken and Ian Whitter of Boca Raton work on their irrigation.
A scarecrow keeps watch over one patch of tomatoes,
while, below: a plastic flamingo and yellow marigolds provide a little bit of color.
INSET BELOW: Banana peppers near harvest size.
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William and Adlyn Sherman celebrated their 70th wedding anniversay. Now 92, the couple met when they were 16 at New Hartford High School in Utica, N.Y. They married in San Francisco in 1944 while William was serving as a Naval officer in World War I
Stanley Tate, founder of the Florida Prepaid College Program, served as guest speaker at the Gold Coast Tiger Bay Club gathering, regaling the group with a background that includes living in the White House and talking about the college program that
The 2014 Saint Francis Award was given to the sea turtle monitor team from Gulf Stream and south Ocean Ridge during the Blessing of the Animals at St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church. Photo: Sea turtle volunteers in attendance were Darlene Duggan, Jim Jol
The Delray Beach Public Library’s third annual fundraiser netted more than $35,000 during an afternoon of shopping for the latest accessories and shoes. Close to 300 women put on their pearls, favorite hats and heels and shopped from the heart. Photo
