In 1994, when Boca Raton bought the Ocean Strand property for $11.9 million, many praised the investment as a victory for preserving green space. Twenty years later, the 15-acre property between high-rise condominiums and homes remains blissfully
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Jennifer Urbanek leads a shark feeding at the Sandoway House. Shelley Gilken/The Coastal Star
By Shelley Gilken
Who needs Sharknado, modern-day megalodon attacks, or a submarine shark lurking off the coast of South Africa? There’s no need for fictitio
Christiane Francois has traveled
to Boynton Beach’s sister city, Qufu, China.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
The owner of the defunct Dolphin restaurant in Boynton Beach likes to think globally.
“I like the idea of finding out abou
By Cheryl Blackerby
The city of Boca Raton got a big surprise July 28 from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — a check for $4 million for reimbursement of the 2010 beach dredging project at the city’s north beach.
“We had been hoping for it. We
By Dan Moffett
Sometime in the next couple of months, Circuit Judge Catherine Brunson is expected to settle a three-year legal battle between Palm Beach County and 14 municipalities when she rules on how taxpayers should pay for the Inspector
By Cheryl Blackerby
After fish and a moray eel died at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center when a pump failed in early August, Michele Peel, spokesperson for Friends of Gumbo Limbo, asked the city of Boca Raton and the Boca Raton Beach and Park District for
By Sallie James
The financially strapped not-for-profit Boca Raton Children’s Museum may have a savior. Florence Fuller Child Development Centers, a Boca Raton-based nonprofit organization, has expressed interest in taking over the struggling 34-y
Commissioners Ron Brown, Mayor Bernard Featherman and Dennis J. Sheridan
listen to a presentation on the town’s spending cap.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
In the wake of a finding by the Palm Beach County Inspector General’s Offic
By Sallie James
The city will be extending lifeguard hours, hiring a full-time building inspector and increasing parking enforcement staff under a proposed $135.8 million 2014-2015 general fund budget. The overall city budget includes money for 22
Anthony Romeo of Boca Raton stretches out in a folding beach chair at Boca Raton’s South Beach.
He brings his own chair and is content with that.
Sallie James/The Coastal Star
By Sallie James
When Boca Raton resident Elle Tate takes her two young
By Emily J. Minor
BRINY BREEZES — Helen Deniston — a widow who lost her first husband to cancer, took up square dancing to ease her grief, then fell in love with the partner of her dreams — died July 21 from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. S
By Steven J. Smith
HIGHLAND BEACH — A memorial service for Alyce C. Reizes was held Aug. 5 at the Delray Beach Club. She was 71 when she died on July 28.
“It was well attended,” Thomas Reizes said of his mother’s memorial. “There were about 60
By Steven J. Smith
BOCA RATON — When Richard W. Dudley and his wife, Elizabeth, moved to Boca Raton from Mountainside, N.J., 22 years ago, they sought a tranquil life in the Florida sunshine.
“We led a quiet life when we moved here,” Elizabeth
Fall is as good of time as any to brush up on local history. With that in mind, the Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum, in conjunction with Florida Atlantic University’s Lifelong Learning Society, is offering a four part lecture series zeroin
The Plate: Tsunami Club
The Place: Tsunami Subs, 309 E. Woolbright Road, Boynton Beach; 739-8525. Also at 1130 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach; 808-7103 or www.tsunamisubsandwraps.com.
The Price: $6.85 for a half-sub
The Skinny: It may not look like it,
The magnetic device, on a fake hand, repels nurse sharks in the center’s pool. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
Shortly before 10 a.m. on a recent Saturday, four ninth-graders from Grandview Preparatory School in Boca Raton pre
Michael Pisano of Boca Raton, a sound mixer, listens to a scene between takes as actors prepare for action at the restaurant 3rd and 3rd during the shooting of After Midnight, an independent film being produced in downtown Delray Beach. Tim Stepien/T
By Thom Smith
After nearly two weeks of Teen Jeopardy competition, Alan Koolik of Boca Raton and Jeff Xie of Edison, N.J., surprisingly were tied with $54,200 in winnings. So on the Aug. 1 broadcast, for one of the few times in history, the winner wa
By Greg Stepanich
Her colleagues in the music industry had suggested for years that she consider performing the songs of Joni Mitchell, but when it came time to do it, jazz singer Tierney Sutton found the idea somewhat daunting.
“I knew how
By Willie Howard
A 25-foot boat that capsized July 27 in the ocean off Delray Beach was taking on water before it rolled over, killing a Lantana man.
According to a preliminary report by the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commissio
