By Dan Moffett
Manalapan commissioners are grumbling about the high cost of litigating grievances with the Police Benevolent Association, and that could mean tougher contract negotiations between the town and union next year.
Since the current
By Mary Thurwachter
Shortly after returning from his Hawaiian vacation, Vice Mayor Lynn Moorhouse went to the beach for brunch at the Dune Deck. The local dentist had no complaints about food, but what he saw in the parking lot had him clenchi
By Dan Moffett
In waging their legal wars against the town of Gulf Stream, residents Chris O’Hare and Martin O’Boyle have used Florida’s public records laws hundreds of times in the last 18 months to challenge how their community is governed.
By Jane Smith
Boynton Beach real estate broker James Arena wants to preserve the funky Florida lifestyle where beach access is everything.
In mid-August, he starred in a 3-minute video to make surfers and other beachgoers aw
The new iPic and its related parking may create traffic issues.
Rendering provided
By Betty Wells
The design proposal for a luxury theater, retail and office complex in downtown Delray Beach has rankled neighboring business owners, who say it
By Tim Pallesen
The question whether a nationwide furor over puppy-mill sales requires a Delray Beach law has been delayed.
City commissioners have imposed a six-month moratorium on allowing new puppy stores into Delray so city officials ha
By Jane Smith
Starting Oct. 1, residents in Ocean Ridge and Briny Breezes will pay more for an ambulance ride provided by Boynton Beach Fire Rescue.
For a basic ambulance ride, the transport fee will increase by nearly 75 percent to $610, a
By Jane Smith
The municipal core of Boynton Beach needs a distinct identity with a signature entrance, a Treasure Coast Planning Council consultant told city commissioners.
“Columns like they have in Rollins College,” said Marcela Camblor, an a
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge commissioners have given unanimous preliminary approval to two measures intended to resolve two of the town’s most contentious and complicated issues.
At the Aug. 11 meeting, the commission approved the first reading
By Dan Moffett
Faced again with dipping into reserves to balance the budget, Ocean Ridge commissioners aren’t buying some things that town officials wanted for the next fiscal year.
Police Chief Chris Yannuzzi isn’t going to get two new patrol
Dr. James DeGerome of Hypoluxo Island
practiced gastroenterology in Boynton Beach for 31 years.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
When he’s not pondering America’s health care challenge, Dr. James DeGerome works to maintain his own good health by jog
Paragon Acquisition Group has presented a plan to build 33 condos in a six-story building
over a parking garage on the site of the Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn.
Rendering provided by Kobi Karp
By Dan Moffett
After a false start last winter, Paragon
By Mary Thurwachter
Developers were able to persuade a majority of Lantana Town Council members that rezoning the Cenacle property to make way for a 319-unit apartment complex was a good idea. On the other hand, a request for four variances to the
Fred and Adrianne Weissman of Evelyn & Arthur
are reopening their Annex in Boynton Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Scott Simmons
Walk into Evelyn & Arthur’s Manalapan store and the thing that sticks in your mind is the laughter.
It’s co
By Christine Davis
The Florida Festivals & Events Association has more than 415 members — representing 750 events statewide — and at its 20th anniversary award conference, Delray Beach cleaned up. The Marketing Cooperative received the following
CORRECTION: This story incorrectly describes the hiring of three employees by Briny Breezes. The town received six applications for deputy town clerk, two for bookkeeper and one for meter reader. Town Attorney John Skrandel advised the Town Council
An estimated 1,200 children received school-supply-filled backpacks at the nonprofit healthcare center’s Back 2 School Bash. The children, all of whom are patients at the center, set an attendance record at the 20-year-old event, which served 1,100 i
FAU President John Kelly (left) speaks with Dennis Gallon
and Bill Berger during a recent event.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Thom Smith
John Kelly could have worked in a cotton mill or driven a tractor under the hot — much hotter than Boca Rat
The fourth-annual reception raised more than $60,000 to benefit Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine’s incoming class. More than 220 business, civic and healthcare leaders attended, each giving a donation for underwrit
The league’s board of directors and other active members came together for the annual summer project of distributing baby diapers to the communities of south Palm Beach and north Broward counties. This year, nearly 38,000 were given to 16 agencies,
