By Tim Pallesen
Coastal homeowners are being urged to take individual action before their premiums for flood insurance skyrocket at the end of this year.
“This is grim for some of you,” Beach Property Owners Association vice president Andy Katz
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Gail Adams Aaskov (left) and Geoffrey Pugh are sworn into office March 25
by Ocean Ridge Town Clerk Karen Hancsak. Town Manager Ken Schenck observes.
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By Dan Moffett
Absentee voting proved decisive as two incumbents
By Dan Moffett
Embattled Commissioner Richard Lucibella has filed suit in Palm Beach County Circuit Court, seeking a temporary injunction and an emergency hearing to halt the recall movement against him.
Lucibella, in a written response to r
New Delray Beach City Commissioner Mitch Katz is sworn into office March 31 alongside his family,
(l-r) son, Hayden, wife, Heather, and daughter Shayna.
Mayor Cary Glickstein is sworn in for a second term. With him are his children, (l-r) Jack Glick
By Dan Moffett
Briny Breezes and other mobile home communities that complained for months about their insurance problems appear finally to have gotten through to Tallahassee.
Citizens Property Insurance has announced that it will begin acceptin
By Jane Smith
Ocean Ridge, Briny Breezes and county pocket residents will soon have drinking water without added fluoride.
Their water supplier, Boynton Beach Utilities, took one of its two fluoride tanks offline at the end of January and the
The Little House property at 480 E. Ocean Ave.
The Oscar Magnusen house at 211 E. Ocean Ave.
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By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach held its own version of the Shark Tank television show in March when its Community Redevelopment Agency board l
Suzy Lanigan (with black Lab Molly) has made Impact 100 a family affair.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
The motto of Impact 100 Palm Beach County, the women’s charitable organization, is “One Woman, One Meeting, One Vote.” But for Suzy Lanigan of
Woodrow ‘Woody’ Gorbach (above) and Bernice ‘Bonnie’ Fisher (below) are sworn into office.
Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Dan Moffett
South Palm Beach Town Council members had planned to give final approval to two ordinances that woul
For the 15th consecutive year, Delray Beach has been designated as a Tree City USA community by the National Arbor Day Foundation. The honor recognizes the city for its commitment to urban forestry management and environmental improvements.
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Lantana Police Officer Brian Gibson was recognized as the department’s 2014 Employee of the Year during the March 9 Town Council meeting. Police Chief Sean Scheller said Gibson, who had been honored as Employee of the Second Quarter previously, h
SOUTH PALM BEACH — They say a cat has nine lives, but with all due respect to felines, any cat would have been happy to have lived the many lives of Robert “Bob” Welstein, who died on March 15 at the age of 96. Mr. Welstein lived many lives duri
By Steven J. Smith
OCEAN RIDGE — Pierce Koslosky Sr. was the very model of a tenacious businessman, a loving husband and a dedicated family patriarch, who emerged from humble beginnings in a coal town to embrace lasting success in the business w
By Mary Thurwachter
It may appear bleak now, but soon the green space at the Lantana Beach facing A1A and east of the drainage ditch swale will be undergoing a spruce-up courtesy of an anonymous resident.
At the March 23 meeting, the Lantana
By Jane Smith
The fate of the old Boynton High School is on the front burner again. On March 17, an architectural consultant gave city commissioners three options for its Town Square: Renovate the high school, partially restore it and save its faç
\Rinah Karson of Delray Beach holds her bicycle valet ticket that was distributed by Human Powered Delray.
Barbara and Norman Iverson, Delray Beach residents, load up their bikes with groceries from the farmer’s market.
Patrick Halliday and Jim Chard
By Jane Smith and Willie Howard
Boynton Harbor Marina customers are paying $5 for parking on Fridays through Sundays, after its Community Redevelopment Agency board nixed negotiations with a landowner to provide free parking.
CRA staff was neg
Boynton Beach Mayor Jerry Taylor dedicates the Downtown Heritage Trail plaque in honor of Janet Hall,
a boat captain and co-founder of the Sea Mist fishing company, during a March 18 ceremony.
Standing with Taylor are Hall’s daughter, Judi Garnsey An
Dr. Acey Albert, primary care physician, at his office in Palm Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Linda Haase
When Dr. Acey Albert volunteers at the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii, he works in makeshift conditions: The medical tent is pi
A right whale surfaces, arching her back and extending her head and fluke out of the water.
Photo provided by FWC
By Cheryl Blackerby
Only about 500 North Atlantic right whales are left in the world. Fortunately for Floridians, these extremely rar
