By Steve Plunkett
A months-long campaign of phone calls, emails and other gentle arm-twisting yielded a last-minute budget success for the Downtown Library: $60,000 for a new program services position.
Deputy Mayor Susan Haynie proposed addin
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By Tim Pallesen
Coastal cities are studying new flood maps to know how many residents will be paying much higher premiums for flood insurance.
Reforms to the federal flood insurance program raise premiums, phase out subsidies and call for a redrawing o
By Jane Smith
Are more drug bales washing up recently along South County coastal shores?
The Ocean Ridge police chief and a spokesman for the West Palm Beach office of Border Patrol think so.
Chief Chris Yannuzzi points to two recent incidents. On Aug.
By Steve Plunkett
A Democratic precinct committeeman is making his first run for office seeking Steven Abrams’ District 4 seat on the Palm Beach County Commission.Andy O’Brien, who just moved into the district and sells real estate from a Re/Max offic
By Steve Plunkett
Work on a fifth “view window” along State Road A1A will soon give landlubbers — especially those in the Yacht & Racquet Club of Boca Raton — a better look at the Atlantic.
The Yacht & Racquet condo association will trim sea
By Steve Plunkett
The city’s workers are now protected against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity or expression, just like their counterparts in Palm Beach County government, the town of Palm Beach and Wal-Mart stores
By Ron Hayes
Sept. 10 was a very good day for Rand Hoch.
That morning, the Palm Beach County Commission voted unanimously to reimburse county employees for the federal tax they pay when adding an unmarried partner to the county health plan. T
Attention, developers: If you can build a “signature restaurant” with “significant public space” at the former Wildflower site, the city wants your plans.
City officials issued a “request for lease proposals” Sept. 13 for the 2.3 acres that o
“Mother Nature was saying a little storm — not even a hurricane at the time — could come through and cause so much havoc. Mother Nature will always prevail. We could learn from the ancient Indians who didn’t build their settlements right on the c
The piano key butterfly was developed by Ronald Boender, the owner/founder of Butterfly World.
ABOVE: A pair of colorful macaws are just a few of the birds at Butterfly World.
BELOW: Detail of a butterfly head and antennae.
Photography by Jerry
FORT LAUDERDALE : Intense beach development without building up a vegetative buffer offered little resistance when Sandy overran A1A in Fort Lauderdale. 2012 photo by Susan Stocker/Sun-Sentinel
A Coastal Star Special Report:
Hurricane shows just how
A Coastal Star Special Report:
Hurricane shows just how fragile our shores are
Sand is finite: Sand becoming a precious commodity | A lexicon of sand
Dunes vs. Sea walls: Natural vegetative dunes may be best defense | Stopping sand loss is a complic
A Coastal Star Special Report:
Hurricane shows just how fragile our shores are
Sand is finite: Sand becoming a precious commodity | A lexicon of sand
Dunes vs. Sea walls: Natural vegetative dunes may be best defense | Stopping sand loss is a complic
Beach renourishment: Renourishment is a modern term used for sand replacement on beaches that have lost sand to erosion or storms. Replacement sand comes from offshore dredging near the beaches or is trucked in from inland Florida mines.
Breakwater:
Bishop Gerald Barbarito sprinkles holy water on one of the four new classrooms
at St. Vincent Ferrer School in Delray Beach. Father Tom Skindeleski (left) accompanies him on the tour.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
BELOW: Volunteers pack rice and bea
Hurricane season is not over. Even when we begin to feel a hint of autumn in the air, the tropics can still be cooking up a mess of trouble.
In late October 2012, we tracked a tropical storm that later became a hurricane — one for the record books — a
William Altier (left) and Cutler Altier of Altier Jewelers in Boca Raton are part of the honorary family for the Keep Memories Alive Walk-in-the-Mall event benefiting the Louis and Anne Green Memory and Wellness Center at FAU. Tim Stepien/The Coastal
By Tim O’Meilia
A divided Ocean Ridge Town Commission approved a $5.6 million town budget that will require dipping into town reserves for more than a third of a million dollars but keep the tax rate at the current level.
Commissioners split over
A Coastal Star Special Report:
Hurricane shows just how fragile our shores are
Sand is finite: A lexicon of sand
Dunes vs. Sea walls: Natural vegetative dunes may be best defense | Stopping sand loss is a complicated business
Who is taking action?:
By Tim Pallesen
Delray Beach commissioners approved a slightly lower property tax rate for this year.
The rate of $7.16 per $1,000 of assessed value for the city’s $98 million operating budget, is 3 cents below last year’s rate of $7.19. An
