By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge town commissioners have narrowed their search for a new town manager to six candidates, and the list includes several familiar names from Palm Beach County and two former officials from Fernandina Beach.
The commiss
By Dan Moffett
Ed Slominski says he learned a good bit about conflict resolution while running successful businesses in the Northeast.
Where better now to use that knowledge than his adopted hometown of Gulf Stream, where there has been so much
By Dan Moffett
South Palm Beach is appealing to oceanfront condominium owners to allow the town easement access to the beaches during emergencies and renourishment projects.
Town officials say they have no way of getting vehicles to the bea
By Jane Smith
This time, the Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency commissioners were unanimous at their late August meeting in awarding a $59,000 contract to analyze taxable values in each of its eight subareas.
The contract went to
Caleb Wiseheart, 8, visiting from Indiana, shows the 11.7-pound mutton snapper and another mutton snapper he caught July 17 while fishing on the Southern Comfort IV drift boat based at Palm Beach Yacht Center in Hypoluxo. Capt. Bill Cox, left, helps
By Dan Moffett
After serving 20 months as alderman, Barbara Molina has resigned her seat on the Briny Breezes Town Council, citing personal reasons.
“Unfortunately, I don’t have the time,” Molina said. “It’s been a pleasure working with this g
By Dan Moffett
Manalapan and Boynton Beach are looking into a deal to consolidate their water utility services and provide benefits to both communities.
Under the plan, Boynton Beach would take over Manalapan’s water plant and infrastructur
Voncile Smith, second vice president of the Boynton Beach Historical Society, protests the proposed demolition
of the 1927 Boynton Beach High School building.
Joe Skipper/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
Public outcry and a proposal from a respe
By Jane Smith
The Downtown Development Authority board members will discuss how to search for a new executive director at their Sept. 14 meeting.
The Delray Beach board voted 4-3 to not renew Marjorie Ferrer’s contract as executive director at
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach may have to refund $44,994 collected from 11 property owners because city commissioners were wrongly interpreting its sidewalk fee ordinance, they learned in August.
The ordinance says, “said sidewalk,” but in som
By Rich Pollack
If Delray Beach were to create a dog beach, what’s to stop dogs from digging up sea turtle nests?
What would the city do if a dog owner failed to clean up after his or her pet?
And what could be done to make sure that o
Related story: Department heads docked pay
By Jane Smith
The fallout from a Delray Beach investigation into purchasing abuses continued with three environmental services employees resigning and another one put on unpaid administrative leave, a
Related story: A culture of ‘not following policies’
Department heads docked pay
By Jane Smith
Three Delray Beach department heads lost a day’s pay for their role in the purchasing abuses uncovered by an outside investigator, the city manager t
By Dan Moffett
A special legislative session failed to resolve the state’s redistricting problems last month, but it might have provided some clarity for coastal communities about their represent-ation in Congress going forward.
While lawmaker
The Little House may reopen as a tapas restaurant.
Photo provided
By Jane Smith
Ocean Ridge Commissioner Richard Lucibella wants to buy the Little House in Boynton Beach and turn it into a tapas eatery.
He and a partner, Barbara Ceuleers, put
By Scott Simmons
Everyone knows Ruth Jones for the cottage that bears her name.
But Mrs. Jones, a Boynton Beach pioneer, was a living, breathing landmark in her own right.
She died Aug. 27 at age 91. “She was just so sweet to everyone — n
By Jane Smith
The Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency should pay to fix the north road in the Boynton Harbor Marina and rebuild the 400-foot sea wall while creating a park near it because the two projects are related, its executive direct
Travel trailers and the simple sedans that towed them used to line Ruth Mary Drive in Briny Breezes.
From left, Susan Atlee, Ann Carmody, Donna Clarke and Sandy Dietzel work to rescue fading photos.
In 1976, Bob and Mary Susdoft donned formal wear fo
Bridge tender Charlie Holbrook chats with Hengameh Omidi, a visitor from Iran (center),
and her friend Monika Damico of Delray Beach as they crossed the Atlantic Avenue Bridge on a recent afternoon.
Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
A plaque hon
By Jane Smith
The aroma of fried chicken wafted through the casino ballroom as Lake Worth residents checked in to a “courteous conversation” about future plans for the Lake Worth Casino complex.
A partner in the historic Sundy House in Delray B
