By Tim Pallesen
City commissioners want to limit the height of new Atlantic Avenue buildings to three floors in new downtown development rules set for final approval on Feb. 24.
Other new buildings in the central business district would be l
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By Dan Moffett
Town Manager Linda Stumpf says construction work to make the Manalapan Town Hall compliant with federal accessibility standards will be completed in time to accommodate voters in the March 10 election.
Stumpf said only a few d
INSET BELOW: Costello
By Jane Smith
The new head of Delray Beach’s Community Redevelopment Agency will receive a slightly more than 18 percent salary increase over his previous salary as the agency’s assistant director.
The CRA board approved t
By Tim Pallesen
Construction for Atlantic Crossing starts this month after a lawsuit by neighbors who sought to alter its design was dismissed by a judge on Jan. 20.
“We’re ready to get demolition and construction underway,” said Edwards Compan
By Dan Moffett
Though their town is built-out, South Palm Beach council members say they want more control over important decisions on development projects.
So they’re moving forward with changes that will shift power from the architecture and
The Lantana Library is located in an old bank building.
Sid Patchett has been library director since 1996.
Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
Atop the clutter on Sid Patchett’s desk in the Lantana Public Library rests a keepsa
Dan Rogers (left) and Curt Hunt use a table saw to rip a 4 X 4 down to the size
they need for repairs to the south side of the Sandoway House.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
Luck finally returned to the Sandoway House Nature Cen
Neighbors complain that this home is out of scale with the rest of the neighborhood.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Tim Pallesen
Coastal residents are pointing to one particular oceanfront home as the example of what should be prevented in fu
Demolition of the A.G. Holley hospital building wrapped up in January, and developers have plans
to build a large shopping center with stores, restaurants, a fitness center, pharmacy and a grocery store.
Kenco Communities submitted a site plan to the
By Mary Thurwachter
Full of enthusiasm and armed with chocolate, Denise “Dee” Treinen convened a meeting of the minds on the Lantana Nature Preserve on Jan. 20.
After business folks, town officials and members of the Lantana Nature Preserve C
By Jane Smith
Business owners at the Boynton Harbor Marina can exhale now that the city has found a short-term solution to a vexing parking problem.
At the January meeting of the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency board, CRA staff received t
By Ron Hayes
DELRAY BEACH — One summer day in the late 1920s, a little boy named Arthur Jaffe asked a librarian at the Carnegie Library in Butler, Pa., to recommend a book.
“She gave me a children’s abridged edition of Robinson Crusoe, and I c
By Mary Thurwachter
Council members in Lantana had a change of heart about installing parking meters in the town-owned parking lot on South Third Street off Lantana Road.
At the Jan. 26 town meeting, the council decided to look into lea
By Dan Moffett
Rob Sivitilli’s crusade to rescue the family’s imperiled 5011 building is looking for help from an unlikely white knight.
It’s Briny Breezes.
After failing to win approval for an ordinance that would grandfather the bu
By Dan Moffett
After 15 years as town attorney, Ken Spillias says he plans on retiring in 2016, and he is going to serve out his last year as an employee of Ocean Ridge.
Spillias won the Town Commission’s blessing for a new employment arrang
By Steven J. Smith
DELRAY BEACH — If you want an example of a life fully lived, look no further than the life of Suzanne “Barbara” Hayward Carpenter.
Born in New Orleans, La., on Nov. 16, 1922, Mrs. Carpenter and her family moved to New York wh
Catherine Jacobus is honorary chairwoman of the Circle of Hope gala.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Catherine Jacobus comes from a privileged background in New York City, but she learned early that being wealthy did not shield her from everything.
By Sallie James
Recently submitted plans for a waterside restaurant on the old Wildflower property don’t include any dock space, raising concerns that boaters who patronize the proposed eatery will take up dock space at nearby Silver Palm Park
John and Sheldon Goldstein (in rainbow vests) participate in a group same-sex wedding
Jan. 6 in Delray Beach.
Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Marcie Hall and Chris Porter of Delray Beach, together more than 30 years, were married.
Financial
By Jane Smith
FEMA has opened the final round of public appeals and comments on proposed changes to its Palm Beach County flood maps.
The 90-day period, which started Jan. 2, allows South County coastal communties to challenge the flood des
