Coastal Star writer Rich Pollack test-drove a Porsche 911 Turbo. BELOW: Drivers take to the road
in the Waldorf Astoria Driving Experience in a McLaren MP4-12C (front),
a Ferarri 458 Italia (center) and a Porsche 911 Turbo.
Photos by Joe Skipper/The
INSET BELOW: Simone Bonutti
By Dan Moffett
Manalapan’s Town Commission will get more than the perspective of an oceanfront resident now that Simone Bonutti has been sworn in to the vacant No. 4 seat.
The town will also get the perspective of
A large banyan tree (opposite tree on right) was cut down on North Atlantic Drive,
causing a furor among residents who said the tree should have been protected.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Mary Thurwachter
Sections of Atlantic Drive, Hypo
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach does not want to be the Grinch that stole Christmas this year.
Board members of its Community Redevelopment Agency voted 5-2 last month to return the 43rd annual boat parade to a Friday night.
The CRA staff had r
By Rich Pollack
A controversial plan to build a 16-story luxury condominium in Highland Beach received a major blow when the town’s Board of Adjustment and Appeals denied a variance request that would have permitted the project to exceed the town’
Highland Beach Mayor Bernard Featherman cuts the ceremonial ribbon Dec. 1 during an open house
to show off the recently completed renovations to Town Hall. The project cost taxpayers $900,000.
Residents were given a chance to tour the council chamber
Kevin Dwyer hands off a pile of paper and cardboard to be recycled to Roy Miller.
These Briny Breezes volunteers — along with Roger Hebert — were riding in a trailer
driven by Ken Doyle during a recent recycling run.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By
Aura Seaside plans to bring 244 multifamily units and commercial space
to replace the Cenacle retreat in Lantana.
Rendering provided
By Mary Thurwachter
A plat and site plan for Aura Seaside, also known as the Cenacle property, received a thumbs-
Melanie Johanson, Cornell Museum curator, with one of artist Will Kurtz’s
sculptures, Linda the Dog Walker.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Melanie Johanson and her husband, Greer Prather, moved to Delray Beach three years ago from New Orleans, whe
By Dan Moffett
As it turns out, it’s not that difficult to get the coastal communities to speak with one voice.
All you have to do is threaten to move them out of the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council.
Palm Beach County commission
The 17 units of the Sun Dek Beach House have Flexsteel queen-size sofa beds and chairs for the living rooms,
as well as matching bedding, dinnerware and pictures on the wall.
Sun Dek managers Lonny Wolfe (left) and Gloria McMillan greet visiting gues
Fite Shavell & Associates held a grand opening for their new office location at 648 George Bush Blvd.
in Delray Beach. The office opening was celebrated by a range of associates, including (l-r) Dana Friedfeld,
Meagan Lake, Loren Beron, Valerie Coz,
The former Pope estate, pictured in this rendering, will have
a ‘modern Tahitian-Transitional style.’ Asking price: $30.499 million.
Photo provided
By Christine Davis
The former Manalapan oceanfront home of the late Generoso Pope, founder and pub
Paradise Bank executives: (front row, l-r) William J. Burke, Dennis Gavin, (back row, l-r) Ward Kellogg and David Englert.
Tim Stepien/ The Coastal Star
By Thomas R. Collins
Bill Burke walks through the main lobby of Paradise Bank’s Boca Raton br
LEFT: James ‘Bay’ McBride Jr. drowned in 1956 while swimming at an unguarded beach. It was illegal for him to use the ‘whites only’ beach off Atlantic Avenue.
BELOW: Bay’s mother, Rosabelle McBride, visits his grave.
Jerry Lower/The Coasta
A nesting pair of burrowing owls
at the Boca Raton Airport.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
A few American kestrels call the Boca Raton Airport home.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Life near the Boca Raton Airport may become much sa
Back on the market after 10 years with the Blackstone Group,
the Resort & Club was founded in 1926 by Addison Mizner.
Photo provided
By Christine Davis
The Boca Raton Resort & Club, a Waldorf Astoria resort, is on the market, but without a price.
Marcel Breuer was one of the architects who created the ‘Brutalist’ design of IBM’s Boca Raton campus,
now called Boca Corporate Center and Campus.
Photo provided
Addison Mizner’s design for the Cloister Inn, now the Boca Raton Resort & Club,
relied
Many women served at the BRAAF base in the Women’s Army Corps as nurses. But their lives could be
pretty uncomfortable. Rattlesnakes infested the airfields, and alligators ventured out of nearby canals.
Although there were 800 buildings on the BRAAF,
The medians of Federal Highway in Boca Raton were filled with campaign signs.
Photo provided by Robert P. Gordon
By Sallie James
Boca Raton is cracking down on the clutter created by political signs, and violators will have to pay if they don’t c
