Joey Weiss started Joey’s Home Bakery — Gluten Free in Boynton Beach — because her husband,
Victor, has celiac disease that makes him allergic to gluten. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Steve Pike
Urgent necessity, Spanish author Miguel de Cerva
South Tech Academy student Michele Calaminus dries 4-year-old Jack, a schnauzer/lab mix during class. She is a senior in SouthTech Academy’s Veterinary Assisting Program and is the owner of Jack. TIm Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Arden Moore
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Wayside House invites guests to its signature fundraising event that features vendors from throughout the country offering eclectic items. Time is 10 am to 5 pm. Cost is $5. Call 642-0849 or visit waysidehouse.net. ABOVE: Committee members include D
Becky Walsh (left) and Heidi Sargeant. Photo provided
By Amy Woods
Proceeds from this year’s laugh-a-minute fundraiser for the Delray Beach Public Library will cover the costs of installing high-tech equipment in the nonprofit institution’s childr
A Unity School fundraiser supporting the 50th-anniversary party, set for Feb. 21, was attended by nearly 120 parents who engaged in friendly but competitive live-auction bidding for 14 of their children’s class projects. Students spent weeks creating
Portrait of a Woman, benefiting Quantum House, kicked off its fourth season with a reception honoring five female honorees: Arlette Gordon, Roe Green, Julie Kime, Holli Rockwell and Ellen Tansey. The event included cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and a spe
WPTV-TV selected the school as its official south-county drop-off location for the 30th-annual Food for Families drive. The station’s staff joined forces with boys, girls and teachers for a long but rewarding workday (6 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.), amassing
Boca Ballet Theatre’s 23rd-annual luncheon and fundraiser luncheon kicked off the new year and season in a festive way. Three hundred guests enjoyed an afternoon of dining and raffle prizes highlighted by a performance featuring New York City Ballet
Gumbo Limbo revamp, restaurant could be among changes
By Cheryl Blackerby
A new Gumbo Limbo Nature Center building, a restaurant on Red Reef Executive Golf Course and development of the 15-acre Ocean Strand, which has been closed to the public fo
Jestena Boughton, with her dog, Lucy,
in front of the Colony Hotel on Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Tim Pallesen
The size for future buildings on Atlantic Avenue is suddenly up for debate after a plea to city c
Surfers enjoyed a few days of 4- to 12-foot waves along much of the county’s coast.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
The bottom of the boardwalk at the Lantana Beach disappeared with the waves.
Recently planted sea grapes in Ocean Ridge were mo
This rendering of ‘New Mizner on the Green’ was part of a mailer sent out by the developer to 12,000 Boca Raton residents.
Rendering provided
The project, dubbed New Mizner on the Green, would sit on nearly 9 acres on Southeast Mizner Boulevard.
Ren
By Rich Pollack
Voters in Highland Beach will be asked to give town officials a green light for a multimillion-dollar water improvement project that will include replacing 60-year-old water mains and making additional enhancements expected to impr
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach officials are hoping the third time will be a charm when it comes to finding a contractor to enclose two terraces at the public library.
The town has $150,000 set aside for the project in its current budget,
By Sallie James
Preserving the city’s history would be easier if owners of historic properties were eligible for federal tax credits. At least that’s the way the chairman of the city’s Historic Preservation Board sees it.
Rex Nichols is hoping
Developers of Tower 155 agreed to modify the original proposal to 140 feet at its highest point and 170 condos.
Rendering provided
By Sallie James
Plans to increase the height of the proposed Tower 155 condominium project and reduce the number of
By Cheryl Blackerby
The renourishment project for Boca Raton’s north beach was plagued with strong winds and big waves that stopped work, but in the end the project was finished ahead of schedule.
Dredging was completed Dec. 13, two weeks shy o
By Steven J. Smith
A couple who had recently moved to a beachside neighborhood in southern Boca Raton were both struck and killed by a car on Dec. 17, while attempting to cross a dark patch of State Road A1A in Deerfield Beach.
At 7:06 p.m., Fr
Shelves begin to empty in December at the Winn-Dixie in Boynton Beach’s Riverwalk Plaza.
The store is planned to close by mid-January.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
If you shop at the Winn-Dixie in Riverwalk Plaza on the corner of Federal Highway
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Want to get fit in 2015? Why not dust off the old Schwinn and go green, too? Experts agree that the simplest New
