INSET BELOW: Terry Stewart
By Tim Pallesen
Delray Beach’s new interim city manager promises to stick around as long as it takes. Terry Stewart fills a breach that was created when city commissioners suspended City Manager Louie Chapman Jr. fo
By Bill Hirschman
BOCA RATON — Businessman Jay H. Harris was not famous outside of theatrical circles in South Florida. But within that community, Mr. Harris was revered for his incalculable investment of time, advice and money that fueled its
Despite intense lobbying from preservationists, the Delray Beach City Commission voted 3-2 to approve a developer’s request that would allow for denser and taller development in a section of the Old School Square Historic Arts District.
The Ju
By Rich Pollack
It is a question for the ages, but with a bit of a twist in Highland Beach.
If a tree falls on the public right of way and no one is around to see it happen, does the adjacent property owner still have to replace it?
That’s
By Dan Moffett
Delray Beach joined the growing list of Florida communities that have acted against disreputable dog breeders when city commissioners gave preliminary approval to an ordinance that prohibits the sale of animals from puppy mills.
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge residents may soon get some definitive answers on how commissioners plan to resolve the town’s long-running debate over public beach access.
The town commission listened to more opinions from residents during a Ju
By Dan Moffett
Gulf Stream commissioners moved with unusual speed to pass unanimously an emergency ordinance that brings the town’s code in line with federal disability housing requirements.
The new law took effect immediately, without the
By Dan Moffett
Council members have approved extending an agreement with Palm Beach County that helps the town and its residents to apply for federal HUD assistance. But it wasn’t easy.
The council first said no to approving the extension on
By Dan Moffett
Town commissioners gave their approval for a Red Cross charity event on Point Manalapan, but not before plenty of hand-wringing over the possibility their good wishes might have some bad consequences.
Desiree and Lambert Van
By Dan Moffett
Manalapan has the lowest tax rate in Palm Beach County, and some of its highest property values and budget reserves that are the envy of communities across the bridge.
So finding $750,000 to replace the town’s failing Audubon Cau
By Jane Smith
The man who just received approval to open the newest substance-abuse treatment center in Boynton Beach has fought in court for more than four years with Delray Beach — over a $4.25 double-scoop of strawberry cheesecake ice cream
By Mary Thurwachter
SOUTH PALM BEACH – Former South Palm Beach Mayor Maurice “Maury” Jacobson, who in 2009 at age 87 was known as the oldest sitting mayor in Palm Beach County, died June 30. He was 93.
Mr. Jacobson was mayor from 2005 to 200
Vice-Mayor Louis De Stefano listens to the concerns of protestors after the Town Meeting. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Dan Moffett
About a dozen friends, relatives and supporters of a Haitian student turned out at Manalapan Town Hall on
By Willie Howard
OCEAN RIDGE — Capt. Mike Zubak, a charter boat captain who earned a living on the waters off Boynton Inlet for nearly 40 years, died June 22 while in Hospice care at Bethesda Memorial Hospital. He was 85.
Mr. Zubak had suffe
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach city commissioners are pinning their downtown development hopes on the 500 Ocean project, while they are concerned about the developer’s request for financial assistance.
For more than 10 years, developers have toyed
Scott Greenberg is president and CEO of ComForcare Senior Services,
a private-duty home healthcare agency serving Palm Beach and Martin counties.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Each Monday evening from 6-7 p.m., listeners to Seaview 95.9 FM, are
By Mary Hladky
If all goes as hoped, two South Florida public broadcasting television stations will complete a merger plan by this fall.
The new entity, South Florida PBS, would bring together WXEL-TV, which serves Palm Beach County and the Tre
BOYNTON BEACH — Garland “Smitty” Smith, age 76, of Boynton Beach passed away June 21 surrounded by his loving family. He was born Dec. 29, 1937, in Greensboro, N.C.
Mr. Smith proudly served in the US Army for eight years, worked at Florida Po
Producer Marc Bell’s $35 million Boca Raton home includes a home theater
that replicates the bridge of the Star Trek Enterprise.
Photo provided
By Christine Davis
In June, CNBC’s Secret Lives of the Super Rich featured Tony Award-winning Jersey
By Emily J. Minor
GULF STREAM — As a young doctor, Gerald Fisk Dederick Jr. worked long hours — seeing patients in the office, making hospital rounds at least twice a day and eventually heading up the surgical department at a leading hospital in
