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A business spotlight in August about Colonial Animal Hospital may have given the wrong impression about the type of veterinary care practiced by Colonial’s vets. They strive to give the highest level of care possible by a group of general practitione

A story in the August issue on the town of Gulf Stream budget incorrectly stated the status of proposed police salary increases. The police have no contract, and all town employees are being considered for 2.5 percent raises.

When we can, my husband and I try to escape the seemingly endless Florida summer.  This year in July and August we headed to Connecticut and Oregon. Both trips took us to beautiful locations for family gatherings.
With the passing of our parents, both

By Tim O’Meilia

Best case scenario: seven submerged groins and a beach 50 feet wider in South Palm Beach and Lantana by February 2016.
That’s not as much as everyone wants, but it’s likely the most anyone’s likely to get.
South Palm Beach Mayor Donald C

Joan Lorne checks a loggerhead nest the morning after the eggs hatched and finds a couple of stragglers, who are set free.

Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

By Ron Hayes

    Venture down to Delray Beach not long after sunrise, and you can’t miss her.
  

Rendering provided

By Betty Wells

The luxury theater complex and office space planned for Delray Beach should produce more than 400 jobs and bring more than 400,000 visitors a year to the downtown, according to the developer.
“We aim to create a uniqu

By Thom Smith

    So much for the bad news at FAU. Since Dennis Crudele took over as interim president after Mary Jane Saunders’ embarrassing debacle that peaked with the plan to name the stadium for the prisons-for-profit company GEO International,

By Dan Moffett
    
Delray Beach commissioners’ campaign to tighten up their business dealings has grown so heated that even a contract for beach chairs can raise emotional warnings about extortion, loss of integrity and “whoring the city.”
    The comm

The construction site in Highland Beach.

Cheryl Blackerby/The Coastal Star

By Cheryl Blackerby 

    In March 2003, workers were digging a trench for underground utility pipes at the Sea Frolic hotel in Highland Beach when they came across something

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Robyn Nassetta performs to Ease on Down the Road from The Wiz with her partner, Ivan Rivera. She was honored as Best Female Dancer.

 Dorothy MacDiarmid and partner Eric Dehant dance to Money, Money, Money from Mamma Mia.

Gary Colli

Marilynn Wick and her daughter, Kim, are preparing to open The Wick Theatre & Costume Museum

in the former Caldwell Theatre building on Federal Highway in Boca Raton.

Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

By Dale King 

    When the former Caldwell Theatre c

By Tim Pallesen  
    
Nights will be quieter in east Delray than in the downtown under the city’s new noise ordinance approved by commissioners on Aug. 20.
    The new law allows outdoor music until midnight on weeknights and until 1 a.m. on weekends

By Tim O’Meilia

South Palm Beach Town Council members will hold the tax rate to the current level and give non-union employees their first pay increase in years if they approve a $1.7 million budget proposed by Town Manager Rex Taylor.
The council will

 South Palm Beach and Manalapan police officers were awarded commendations in  August from their town lawmakers.
Lt. Nick Alvaro of South Palm Beach was honored for guiding the police force to third place in a statewide Law Enforcement Challenge, earn

By Tim O’Meilia

Twice before, Briny Breezes Mayor Roger Bennett has threatened to quit because of ill health, but he always returned. Now he really means it.
Bennett, who has guided the town of mobile homes with a quick quip and a gentle hand for seven

By Cheryl Blackerby 

    Boca Raton Beach and Park District commissioners are willing to pay a greater share of the city’s beach renourishment bills. But before they start writing bigger checks, they’d like to start playing a bigger role in shaping t

By Tim O’Meilia

Elected officials in Ocean Ridge and Manalapan questioned the legal fees they are paying in a dispute over who pays for the Palm Beach County Inspector General’s Office.
While Ocean Ridge is considering reducing the fees or bailing out

Alessandra Medri, the marine animal stranding coordinator for Palm Beach County’s Environmental Resources Management Department, checks on a pygmy sperm whale found near shore in Delray Beach on Aug. 28. Passersby and Delray Beach lifeguards stayed

By Tim Pallesen

    Get out the green confetti but not the green beer — the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade is a go for next year without alcohol.
    Delray Beach commissioners have approved the March 15 event with a $31,273 cost for the promoter.

Fannie James served as post mistress of the first post office in Lake Worth. Courtesy of Historical Society of Palm Beach County

By Ron Hayes

On June 15, 1889, a former slave named Fannie James filled out a lengthy form, asking the First Assistant