The 1920s Gulfstream Hotel in downtown Lake Worth will have 90 rooms,
a rooftop nightclub, restaurant and spa.
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By Christine Davis
It’s official. Urban Outfitters signed a 10-year lease with EASSA Properties LLP and plans to open b
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Boaters use the ramp at Silver Palm Park, at Palmetto Park Road and the Intracoastal Waterway.
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An angler cleans fish as boaters leave the water via the ramp at Silver Palm Park in Boca Raton.
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By Jane Smith
Palm Beach County recently received a $210,000 grant through Operation Stonegarden, which is run by the U.S. Border Patrol’s South Florida office in Pembroke Pines.
The money will be used to offset overtime and equipment costs for
INSET BELOW: Kathleen Weiser
By Rich Pollack
Despite early concerns expressed by one commissioner, Highland Beach town leaders agreed unanimously this month to renew the contract of Town Manager Kathleen Weiser and to give her a salary increase.
By Rich Pollack
The number of serious crimes — what little there was — declined 23 percent for six small coastal towns in 2013 and local law enforcement agencies are crediting a more vigilant population for much of the drop.
In all, there we
By Betty Wells
The Community Redevelopment Agency project for a luxury movie theater complex along East Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach is progressing, while two other CRA projects are on hold. Before proceeding on a proposed parking garage, the
By Rich Pollack
While Delray Beach considers whether to have Palm Beach County Fire Rescue provide its fire service, the town of Highland Beach is hedging its bets and planning discussions to determine the feasibility of having Boca Raton replace
By Rich Pollack
A proposed $3.5 million sale of Highland Beach town-owned property in Boca Raton, which has been mired in bureaucratic red tape for almost a year, may soon become a done deal. But until it is, the town will receive $3,500 a month f
Finding a parking space at Gumbo Limbo can be a challange.
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By Cheryl Blackerby
Expanded ocean views on Red Reef Park Executive Golf Course, safer pedestrian crossing on A1A at Red Reef Park, and increased revenue for
By Sallie James
The financially struggling Boca Raton Children’s Museum is hanging on by a thread, thanks to a stream of donations totaling about $7,500 that will enable the nonprofit to continue operating through June. Museum officials had ho
By Jane Smith
HIGHLAND BEACH — Ingeborg Rand’s last wish was to die at home. At age 90, surrounded there by husband John and family, she died May 20 from complications from a fall.
Known affectionately as Inge (IN-ga) to family and friends, Mrs
Barb Schmidt watches as her books roll down the line
at HCI Printing and Publishing in Deerfield Beach.
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Barb Schmidt introduced her book, The Practice, during an event at Florida Atlantic University last month.
INSET BELOW: Cover of
The Plate: Penne Tomato & Basil
The Place: Al Fresco, at the Palm Beach Par 3 Golf Course, 2345 S. Ocean Blvd., Palm Beach; 273-4130 or alfrescopb.com
The Price: $16.50
The Skinny: We had been wanting to check out the new clubhouse at the Palm Beach Par
Florida Federation of Garden Clubs president Sue Angle (left) honors
Boca Raton Garden Club president Carol Brown with the state
Garden Club of the Year award.
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By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
Carol Brown, president of the Boca Raton Gar
The Ocean Ridge Garden Club celebrated the 90th birthday of one
of its longtime members, Dottie Morrison, at its year-end luncheon May 7
at the Ocean Club of Florida in Ocean Ridge. Club president Kristine de Haseth
presents Morrison with an orchid a
Angler Rich Slipspil holds one of three wahoo caught aboard the Wish List last July
using bonito strips pulled behind trolling planers. Capt. J.P. Wolf found
the wahoo in about 185 feet of water just north of Hillsboro Inlet.
Photo courtesy of Tony D
More than 600 Jews and Christians walk in solidarity on Holocaust Memorial Day, April 27 in Boca Raton.
The march began at Boca Raton Christian School and ended at Temple Beth El.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
INSET BELOW: Greg Weisman and Jessica Br
A polydactyl cat stands on a desk near Ernest Hemingway’s typewriter at the Hemingway House in Key West.
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By Arden Moore
Sporting a ZIP code from Palm Beach County certainly makes you the envy of those stuck in lackluster locations,
Flip Traylor with a bonefish caught around Little Torch Key
in the Florida Keys. The photo dates to the 1960s.
INSET BELOW: Fishing has been a family affair; Flip's wife,
Barbara Traylor, poses with a sailfish caught at Walkers Cay, Bahamas.
Family p
Professional surfer Peter Mendia, of West Palm Beach, rides a WaveJet surfboard near the Lake Worth Pier. Mendia says the propulsion system allows him to spend less time paddling and more time riding waves.
Photos by Willie Howard/The Coastal Star
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