Karen Marcil and Christina Auer show off items from Our Boat House in Boca Raton’s Mizner Park. The retail company was started in 2005 in Vero Beach. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Christine Davis
You can thank Frances, Jeanne and Wilma for Boc
The former Boca Raton Bridge Hotel, now known as Waterstone Resort & Marina, will have its grand opening May 7. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Christine Davis
On May 7, Waterstone Resort & Marina, 999 E. Camino Real, Boca Raton, will celebrate its
By Rich Pollack
The YouTube videos and website postings flooded the Internet for days after the South Florida Safe Roads Task Force completed its weeklong initiative last month to increase safety among bicyclists, motorists and pedestrians on St
The Plate: Crab cake sandwich
The Place: Old Key Lime House, 300 E. Ocean Ave., Lantana; 582-1889 or oldkeylimehouse.com
The Price: $14.99
The Skinny: It was a dilemma anyone would envy: we were hungry, but not starving.
Did we want to gorge ourselves
Richie Podvesker, deli master of the store, directs a customer to the beer collection while handling the sandwich orders of a dozen customers at a time. He has been making subs and other meals for more than 21 years.
By Paula Detwiller
The road
Robert Morse with Randi Emerman and Rick McCoy at the Palm Beach International Film Festival. Photo provided
By Thom Smith
If you want bright lights, head for the big city. Big bucks and exotic cars and a penthouse suite? Try Cannes. Mucho-chic
Cast members take the stage in the Arts Garage production of The Trouble With Doug. Photo provided
By Greg Stepanich
Seraphic Fire, the Miami-based concert choir with two Grammy nominations to its credit, performs this month at St. Gregory’s Ep
The Wasie Foundation is inviting women age 18 and older to team up with Operation Mobilization in the quest to end human trafficking by raising funds through a challenging series of summits. Cost is $800, which includes lodging, food, transportation
The view of Boca Raton Airport from Glades Road and Interstate 95.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
The federal government pays to staff the control tower at the Boca Raton Airport.
Clara Bennett, the Boca Airport Authority’s executive director,
cam
By Steve Plunkett
Pay attention to the sign when you pull into a free on-street parking space in downtown Boca Raton. The city is enforcing the mostly two-hour time limits for the first time in at least three years.
City staff also are puttin
INSET BELOW: Walter O'Neill
By Lucy Lazarony
Walter O’Neill can sum up his vision for the Art School of the Boca Museum of Art in four simple words, “community and building community.”
O’Neill, who took over as director on April 7, sees the A
Lake Boca was filled with boats, partiers and music on April 27 for Boca Bash,
an annual floating party held between the Camino Real and Palmetto Park Road bridges.
Ocean Ridge resident Luke Smith, sporting a pink flamingo hat,
collects trash for
By Tim Pallesen
A majority of city commissioners wants to charge a dollar for trolley rides to discourage the homeless from riding free to a soup kitchen.
To stop the homeless from begging for money, commissioners also want a tough new ordin
By Rich Pollack
Concern over a water leak that led to one small neighborhood association receiving a $4,000 water bill has Highland Beach town leaders looking into new ways to detect leaks and save not just treated water but also a lot of money.
About 600 runners laced up their shoes to take part in the Green Turtle Gallop at Spanish River Park
in Boca Raton. The 6.2-mile run raised about $10,000 for Gumbo Limbo’s Sea Turtle rehabilitation facility.
Runners, walkers and watchers were greet
The Milagro Center had its annual cultural arts-inspired fund-raising showcase highlighted by vocal, dance, mime, step, and spoken-word performances by students and teachers. A silent auction of themed packages and sales of artwork created by studen
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County’s Be Great Dinner to benefit the Naoma Donnelley Haggin Boys & Girls Club of Delray Beach raised more than $192,000 following a day of events and that honored Michael and Susan Mullin, recipients of the For
Lou Voress was honored at the annual Bel Lido Homeowners’ Association Meeting. Voress earned the honor for her dedication and duties spanning nearly four decades as secretary and member of the board of directors. She was presented with flowers and a
Stop Hunger Now volunteers recently packed 100,000 meals to be shipped to Haiti.
Photo provided
By Mary Thurwachter
About 600 students and other community volunteers rolled up their sleeves April 19 to prepare 100,000 meals in the Florida Atlant
By Sallie James
After news of the Boca Raton Children’s Museum’s financial plight was publicized and emails requesting support were sent out to supporters, donations have been trickling in.
The financially strapped museum had expected to run
