By Mary Hladky
After about two years of exploratory talks, Boynton Beach-based Bethesda Health and Coral Gables-based Baptist Health South Florida have agreed to merge.
The agreement, announced on Oct. 2, calls for a two-year transition peri
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Cynthia Smilovsky gives a blanket to World War II veteran John Mazzucco of Boca Raton before he left on an Honor Flight to Washington. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
At 3:45 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 17, two SUVs pulled out of Briny Breezes
There are few places left in southern Palm Beach County where you can see the Atlantic Ocean. Private homes and condos block most of the views. Only along the public beach in Delray Beach, in spots where sea grapes have been trimmed along Boca Ra
Lance Shaner, owner of Shaner Hotel Group, and Mike Sformo, Operation Backbone’s founder.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Lance Shaner was in Buffalo several months ago for what he thought was simply the opening of the new Buffal
If the fire district were to be approved, a new station might be built along A1A somewhere between the town of Gulf Stream and Woolbright Road in Ocean Ridge. One proposed location is in Briny Breezes between Gulfstream Texaco and Hampton Real Estate
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach will focus on raising the level of service of its own fire-rescue department instead of consolidating with the county, city commissioners agreed Nov. 3.
Just four residents spoke against the consolidation.
“We are
By Jane Smith
Parking meters are coming to downtown Delray Beach, a majority of city commissioners agreed in mid-October. The question remains when.
A majority of commissioners reached that decision in May, too, and were waiting to review p
By Jane Smith
The Downtown Development Authority board will give new Executive Director Laura Simon a salary increase to coincide with her promotion. At the Delray Beach authority’s Oct. 12 meeting, the board agreed to increase Simon’s base sa
New playground equipment might have a nautical theme.
Rendering provided
By Jane Smith
Veterans Park will soon have new playground equipment after Delray Beach commissioners agreed to pay slightly more than $92,000 to replace the aging wooden
By Jane Smith
The owner of the proposed iPic movie theater property in Delray Beach asked to amend for the fourth time the contract to buy the 1.59-acre site.
But the Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency, which owns the parcel that sits
Lois Pope walks along the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Photo provided
A new documentary film, Debt Of Honor: Disabled Veterans In American History, funded by Manalapan philanthropist Lois Pope and directed by
By Rich Pollack
Saying they are pleased with the positive changes they’re seeing, Highland Beach commissioners have abandoned efforts to bring in a private firm to manage library operations.
Commissioners in August had agreed to invite represe
The Friends of the Highland Beach Library will be welcoming back many of the town’s returning residents during the third annual Wine and Cheese Fundraiser, set for 5 to 7 p.m. on Dec. 4 at the library.
Last year’s fundraiser drew about 150 pe
By Dan Moffett
Briny Breezes Town Attorney John Skrandel was researching records for writing a new golf cart ordinance earlier this year when he stumbled onto a historical oversight.
There was nothing in the town’s archives to document exactly
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge Mayor Geoff Pugh may want to make a promenade out of Old Ocean Boulevard but so far he’s only created a promenade for skeptics leading to the microphone in Town Hall chambers.
A dozen residents took turns expressing t
By Jane Smith
At their March meeting, Delray Beach commissioners will review an agreement that would give them more of the property taxes collected in the downtown.
“It’s not going to continue as is,” Mayor Cary Glickstein said Oct. 29 at the c
The City Commission amended its sidewalk ordinance on Oct. 20.
The 11 historic-home owners who had paid into the sidewalk fund will get their money back, the Delray Beach city manager said after the meeting. Those homeowners had paid a total
By Jane Smith
The attorneys for Delray Beach responded to Atlantic Crossing’s $25 million lawsuit, now in federal court, with a motion to dismiss on Oct. 26.
The motion delves into the legal complexity of the $200 million, 9.2-acre proposed mix
The Sequin Delray Beach store will have to pay its business tax this financial year, four city commissioners agreed Oct. 20.
Manager Jodi Stein had requested a reprieve from paying the $172.56 business license fee because of the road construc
Bob Weisblut argues that the proposed U.S. restrictions
on the import and sale of ivory items are too onerous
and will make buying and selling antique pieces, such as this
18th-century Chinese vase, too difficult for legitimate collectors.
Tim Step
