By Mary Hladky
Although many Boca Raton residents are passionate about keeping low building heights in the downtown, the City Council has opened the door a bit wider to allowing taller structures.
The council voted 3-2 on Jan. 13 to allow owner
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By Rich Pollack
Three seats on the Highland Beach Town Commission will be filled following the March 10 municipal election.
The ballot will include a referendum seeking voter approval for two major water infrastructure improvement projects, wi
All’s square between the city and the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District for the first time in years.
The district paid an unexpected almost $2 million for a beach renourishment project that Boca Raton thought the federal government wo
By Sallie James
Boca Raton police officers will receive annual 2 percent raises for the next three years under a three-year contract that also requires police personnel to contribute more to their pension plan.
Similarly, city firefighters w
The Rotary Club of Boca Raton’s 17th annual Outstanding People and Leader’s Gala, OPAL, was held on Jan. 10 at Boca West. Besides the honorees, Richard Young, a 50-year Rotary member, received the Rotary’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Photo: OPAL hono
The Plate: Chicken Tacos
The Place: The Beach Club on the Waterfront, Lake Worth Golf Course, 1 Seventh Ave. N., Lake Worth; 585-8976 or beachclublakeworth.com
The Price: $10.95
The Skinny: If you haven’t been to the Lake Worth golf course, you need to
Built in the 1920s, The historic Luff House is one of the few remaining bungalows
that used coral rocks for the foundation, chimney and face.
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By Steven J. Smith
The immediate prospects of the Luff House, a historic
It was a construction site accident with several critically injured patients and the quick actions of three Boca firefighter/paramedics saved all the patients’ lives. The trio, who were competing in the Fire Rescue East Conference in Daytona Beac
By Steven J. Smith
BOCA RATON — Gus Centrone said if he had to sum up the life of his sister Elena in a brief sentence, it would be that she was a giver to others; one who always put another’s needs above her own.
Born on Feb. 14, 1951, in Phil
By Emily J. Minor
HIGHLAND BEACH — Hank Peters, a longtime Major League Baseball executive whose gut instincts about young talent helped the long-deprived Cleveland Indians reach the World Series in 1995, died Jan. 4 in hospice care near his Highl
Pascale Troupin-Castania displays her gourmet product line at the Delray Beach Green Market.
Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
Pascale Troupin-Castania lives in a jam-filled world in Delray Beach.
From the bounty of her back
The Olivia Kiebach Garden is a delight to visitors from any angle. Here, a child is dwarfed by the hugh buttressed roots of the kapok tree.
Munching on the leaf of a milkweed, these caterpillars will mature into monarch butterflies.
Brown seeds dangl
By Tao Woolfe
After 50 years of standing behind local artists and their work, the Delray Beach Art League is stepping out to celebrate its own creation.
It will do so in high style, of course, with a four-day art festival — from Feb. 26 to Marc
The International Kinetic Art Exhibit will fill downtown Boynton Beach with art in motion.
By Jane Smith
Fine art will meet hard science when Boynton Beach hosts the International Kinetic Art Exhibit and Symposium Feb. 7 and 8. The event and year
Philanthropist Lois Pope sponsored an event organized by the American Humane Association
to honor Hollywood animal ‘actors’ Crystal and Hudson. Tova Leidesdorf made
a surprise donation of $50,000. Photo: Hudson, Pope,
American Humane Association Pres
Dr. Seth Baum
By Linda Haase
Let’s get to the heart of the matter. After all, February is American Heart Month.
And while lots of heart-shaped boxes have infiltrated stores nationwide, there are some not-so-sweet statistics:
• Heart disea
At Valentine’s, hearts beat with the power of pet affection
Potter, a Boston bull terrier and the canine companion of Zoanne and Neil Hennigan
of Ocean Ridge, looks forward to his Valentine’s treats.
Photo by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Arden Mo
Ocean Ridge resident Pat Kropp’s Clerodendrum flowers
have been attracting attention from passersby. If you know
of a distinctive plant display in your neighborhood,
please contact The Coastal Star at news@thecoastalstar.com.
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The Grass River Garden Club provided beautiful holiday floral arrangements for the pediatric staff
at Bethesda Health. ‘I know the flowers brightened the nurses’ day,’ said Andrea H. Lambrakis,
community relations coordinator for Betheda Health, in a
Members of the Grass River Garden Club recently helped the students at Paul’s Place
replant their vegetable garden. Paul’s Place is an after-school program at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
in Delray Beach that serves children from the neighborhood. Whe
