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.
Photo provided
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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The Bamboo Room, which has drawn nationally known acts, is decorated with music memorabilia. Photo provided
By Thom Smith
Bamboo Room … Always full of surprises. For example, on Songwriters Night, when the guy at the microphone starts wailing a
Conrad Pickel designed this stained glass window at St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church in Boynton Beach. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Lucy Lazarony
Visionary and stained glass artist Conrad Pickel lived in Boynton Beach from 1974 to 1994.
Christine Lynn’s birthday was celebrated at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Christine E. Lynn Women’s Health & Wellness Institute. Lynn was accompanied by donors, hospital and city officials and hospital staff members. Her $10 million gift to es
Sandoway House Nature Center’s ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ affair attracted 160 supporters who dined, danced, bid on silent-auction items and raised more than $44,000. Photo: Jestena Boughton (left) gives Executive Director Danica Sanborn a chec
Jamie Bernstein (right) says when her father, Leonard, was alive, she took him for granted. Now she realizes his impact on generations of music lovers. Photos provided
By Greg Stepanich
As befits the daughter of an eminent man of music, Jamie Bernste
The National Society of Arts and Letters’ Florida East Coast Chapter selected 13 students to receive scholarships to colleges of their choice during an event chaired by Highland Beach resident Judi Asselta. Asselta introduced each student and present
The Boca Raton Woman’s Club rang in its half-century mark by installing a new slate of officers for 2014-15. Club officials, both past and present, gathered for the historic occasion, at which Mayor Susan Haynie presented a congratulatory proclamati
The popular series sponsored by the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County attracted more than 70 supporters to the fourth ‘conversation’ of the 2013-14 season. The topic: ‘I Like America: Noël Coward in the U.S.A.,’ featuring an exchange between Barr
The Junior League of Boca Raton celebrated the end of the 2014 season during a meeting, at which Andrea Garcia was sworn in as new president. ABOVE: Woman Volunteer of Year Co-Chairwoman Kirsten Stephenson, Honorary Chairwoman Marta Batmasian, Co-Cha
More than 140 guests, including featured speaker Jean Chatzky, of NBC’s ‘Today,’ gathered to announce this year’s Jewish Women’s Foundation grantees and to honor foundation Chairwoman Mara Reuben for exemplary leadership. Trustees voted to distribute
Longtime fishermen gathered for a picnic to swap tales. Photo: Wally Alexander, Ron ‘Captain Hook’ Hamlin, Mike Fortier, Rick Lyman, Bob Nicholson, Jim Duncan, Butch Moser, Jimmie Zeak, Dr. Charles (Buddy) Moore, and two unidentified participants. Kn
Richard Pollock, president and CEO of the YMCA of South Palm Beach County, walked away with the Business Leader of the Year Award from the Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce. The award celebrates those who give back to the community not only through gene
Wells Fargo Private Bank sponsored an event to benefit and bring awareness to Boca Helping Hands, which provides food and emergency provisions to the needy. Photo: Jason Freeman, Karen Swedenborg, Bonnie Koenig, Kelly Thill, Pattie Damron and Jonath
Mr. and Mrs. William Harve Lozier of Des Moines, Iowa, announce the engagement of their daughter, Charlotte Anne, to John Case Lundquist, son of Mr. and Mrs. David John Lundquist of Ocean Ridge.
Charlotte graduated from Northwestern University
