Meg Mallon and Beth Daniel
File photo/The Coastal Star
By Steve Pike
For athletes in any sport, there is nothing like a home game. The comfort level of playing in familiar surroundings and sleeping in your own bed is almost incalculable in regard
Nothing says Halloween in Florida more than scary surfing guys. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Shelley Gilken’s random picks for things to do with tots and teens in the 2014-2015 season.
1. Trick or Treating on the Avenue and the Halloween Parade and
The new Trader Joe’s at the corner of Linton Boulevard and Federal Highway in Delray Beach opens on Sept. 5.
ABOVE: Barbara Arnold and Sandra Shinn stock shelves under the watchful eye of a surfing cow. Other store walls are covered with similar mur
In what is certain to stir controversy in Boca Raton for years to come, a developer has submitted plans for an “ultra-luxury” downtown condominium project that would include four towers rising as high as 30 stories.
ELAD National Properties of
Percent Votes
Circuit Judge, 15th Circuit, Group 14
Diana Lewis 45.56% 45,175
*Jessica Ticktin 54.44% 55,181
101,356
Circuit Judge, 5th Circuit, Group 30
Maxine Cheesman 16.76% 16,661
*Jaimie Goodma
In Boynton Beach, Steven Michael’s Hudson Holdings bought a 1.35-acre parcel along Northeast Sixth Avenue, just south of the city Community Redevelopment Area called Ocean Breeze East. It paid $1.1 million for the land in April 2013.
Then it
Developer assembles properties in Delray, Lake Worth
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Building Boom: Investments in change
Related stories: Developer assembles properties in Delray, Lake Worth | Plans for other sites as well | Planners look to update downtown development rules | iPic project draws fire from nearby businesses
By Tim P
By Dan Moffett
After more than a decade on life support, the end appears near for the last commercial district in Ocean Ridge.
The Town Commission has rejected an amendment that essentially would have grandfathered the five-store strip at 5011
For two years after we moved into our office at 5011 N. Ocean Blvd., people would stop in asking where the dry cleaner was. They looked crestfallen when I explained the locations of two businesses across the bridge.
At least once a week throug
By Rich Pollack
Motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians along A1A beware: Law enforcement officers from several departments will once again be out in force this month in a concentrated effort to promote the need for bicyclists, motorists and pedestr
By Tim Pallesen
The furor over Atlantic Crossing now has Delray Beach ready to tighten and improve its downtown development regulations.
“We started on the heels of Atlantic Crossing, and we heard about height and density concerns,” Treasure Co
Delray Beach Historical Society President Leslie Callaway addresses the crowd
during the the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Delray Beach Historical Society charter signing.
INSET BELOW: A portrait of Ethel Sterling Williams.
Tim Stepien/The Coa
By Dan Moffett
After the furor over the Red Cross plan for a Designers’ Show House on Point Manalapan, town commissioners are working to draft a new ordinance that would prohibit large, multiday special events.
“This is the result of the recent
By Dan Moffett
Manalapan commissioners are grumbling about the high cost of litigating grievances with the Police Benevolent Association, and that could mean tougher contract negotiations between the town and union next year.
Since the current
By Mary Thurwachter
Shortly after returning from his Hawaiian vacation, Vice Mayor Lynn Moorhouse went to the beach for brunch at the Dune Deck. The local dentist had no complaints about food, but what he saw in the parking lot had him clenchi
By Dan Moffett
In waging their legal wars against the town of Gulf Stream, residents Chris O’Hare and Martin O’Boyle have used Florida’s public records laws hundreds of times in the last 18 months to challenge how their community is governed.
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach real estate broker James Arena wants to preserve the funky Florida lifestyle where beach access is everything.
In mid-August, he starred in a 3-minute video to make surfers and other beachgoers aw
The new iPic and its related parking may create traffic issues.
Rendering provided
By Betty Wells
The design proposal for a luxury theater, retail and office complex in downtown Delray Beach has rankled neighboring business owners, who say it
By Tim Pallesen
The question whether a nationwide furor over puppy-mill sales requires a Delray Beach law has been delayed.
City commissioners have imposed a six-month moratorium on allowing new puppy stores into Delray so city officials ha
