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Feast of the Sea’s third Maestro del Mar Chef Challenge took place July 24 at Salt 7 in Delray Beach. Chefs from four Delray Beach restaurants competed, presenting a signature dish that included mahi-mahi. The dishes were created in less than 60 min

Soccer sensation Jozy Altidore (right ) poses with Boca High School student Michael Vanaki, and a signed American flag at Waterstone Resort & Marina.  Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

By Thom Smith

     Twenty minutes into the U.S. Team’s World Cup opene

By Greg Stepanich

    This might be a good month to get your grunge on.
    The pestilential heat of an August in South Florida has to be tempered some way, and perhaps an evening of rough-edged rock from rain-soaked bands that made it big in the 199

The Rotary Club of Delray Beach gathered for official business to install its 2014-15 board of directors. ABOVE: (l-r) Anne Bright, Bill Arnst, Ernie Simon, Peter Beck, David Harden, Mike Campbell, Betsy Owen, Jimmy Weatherspoon, Candace Etzler, Alan

Members of Soroptimist International of Boca Raton and Deerfield Beach celebrated their organization’s 54th-annual dinner in special sunset style. Kathi Pease, past governor, installed the officers for the 2014-15 year as former President Kim Champi

Students raised $3,000 to benefit the Brother Mutien-Marie School in Mbalmayo, Cameroon, West Africa, during a contest that saw a teacher kiss a pig. The teacher, Eufrasio Volpe, who heads the Italian Club, did the deed at a pep rally. The pig was on

‘Sea oats are our first line of defense in dune protection,’ Ocean Rescue Chief Tom Mahady says. So six students from Pope John Paul II High School joined Mahady in planting 250 sea oat seedlings. ABOVE: (l-r) Mahady with students Zachary Markle, Jon

A special evening with special prizes benefited The HARID Conservatory, a professional training school for ballet dancers. Guests enjoyed wine and hors d’oeuvres, along with hair, make-up and skin consultations with aestheticians. ‘We are thrilled t

Lily Forte performs with the School of Rock during its 2013 summer tour to the Northeast, which included a show at the Lincoln Memorial. Photo provided

Watch video of Lilly performing

By Amy Woods

    She sang her heart out in front of Mel B, Heidi

The Plate: The Country Pulled Chicken Sandwich
The Place: M.E.A.T. (Meat Eatery and Taproom), 980 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton; 419-2600 or www.meateateryboca.com
The Price: $10
The Skinny: We at The Plate have a message for you, gentle readers:
When d

Shelley Gilken teaches an Action Karate class to young students in May. Photo provided

By Shelley Gilken

When people think of karate, they often conjure up images of punches, kicks or hand-to-hand combat.
    Those are all part of karate and self-def

Mark Gerretson, who loved to fish, started the Holiday Toy Drive Fishing Tournament

in 1994 to benefit the Delray Beach Police Department’s annual drive.

After his death in 2005, friends named the fishing tournament for Gerretson.

Contributed by Pat

The Boca Raton Musuem of Art in Mizner Park.

By Lucy Lazarony
    
    Sip a complimentary glass of wine, take in the art, people watch, grab a sketchpad and create your own version of an inspiring museum piece.
    Welcome to Late Night Thursday at th

Summer sun and heat can turn the inside of a car or truck

deadly in just a few minutes, so don’t leave your pet inside your vehicle.

Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

By Arden Moore

    In Palm Beach County, August typically marks the month where hot mer

By Ron Hayes
 
    In her 2009 memoir, Minor League Mom, Pamela Carey shared the humor she found among the home runs and foul balls after her sons, Tim and Todd, joined a Boston Red Sox farm team back in the 1990s.
    Now she’s back with a humorous l

Guild creates art to soothe patients
of health center at Harbour’s Edge

Artists guild member Janis Cooper, her painting on the wall,

sits with Barbara Green, who was undergoing therapy

at Harbour’s Edge in Delray Beach.

Tim Stepien/The Coastal Sta

The 17th hole at Seagate Country Club at the Hamlet is considered one of the best holes

at the club, which is lengthening its course to nearly 7,100 yards.

Photo provided

By Steve Pike

    In the golf world, longer is always better, whether it’s a n

Paul Aho (inset below), who grew up

in Ocean Ridge, wrote the book Surfing Florida.

Photos provided

By Willie Howard

    Florida surfers needed someone to chronicle the origins of their relatively young sport and assemble a collection of vintage surf

Tri-County Animal Rescue Dedicates New ‘Sunshine’ Cat Room & Patio

Extends “9 Lives For $9” Cat Adoption Program Through August

Tri-County Animal Rescue’s (TCAR) grand opening and dedication of its new ‘Sunshine Cat Room’ and screened patio was purr