A sample storm surge prediction map uses Fort Myers as an example.
Provided by NOAA
By Cheryl Blackerby
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, coastal residents learned the hard way about the dangers of storm surge.
Sandy didn’t do its damage with h
Brothers Jim Leming and Paul Leming with friend Kip and future brother-in-law Ed Halligan
near Navy Pier in Chicago in 1942.
Family photo
June 6, 1944.
For many of our readers, this date needs no notation on a calendar or explanation in a news
Ezzat Fairplay (left), Mildred Strom and Bette Cumpton are among the 10 or so neighbors
at Harbour’s Edge who knit blankets, sweaters and hats for newborns.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
After her husband, Nathan, died at Hospice By
What kind of city do you want to live in? Do you want a first-rate, full-service city that provides the full range of municipal services, or would you settle for a second-class city where some services are provided by other government entities o
A mature hammerhead shark washed up dead at the south end of Highland Beach, probably
as the result of stress associated with hook-and-line sport fishing.
Photo provided by Capt. Steve Dougherty
As the editor of Florida Sport Fishing magazine, I
By Tim Pallesen
Delray Beach is without a city manager after three city commissioners suspended, but couldn’t fire, Louie Chapman Jr., their manager for only a year.
Mayor Cary Glickstein joined Commissioners Jordana Jarjura and Shelly P
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Fishing is an important part of the Florida lifestyle as well as its economy. In spite of the obvious benefits, this leisure-time activity, on occasion, can lead to problems for birds and other wil
The History of Ocean Ridge, Gail Adams Aaskov’s book on the town’s heritage, has been updated and reprinted. Originally published in 1995, this is the publication’s third printing.
The comprehensive guide includes a chronology of events, an e
By Dan Moffett
Gulf Stream town commissioners have just begun thinking about a budget for the next fiscal year, but already they are close to a consensus that they can’t afford to give taxpayers a rate rollback.
The decision to hold the line do
By Dan Moffett
Christopher O’Hare tried another argument to get a metal roof approved for his Place au Soleil home, but Gulf Stream town commissioners rejected it like all the others.
This time, however, the rejection wasn’t unanimous, but 4-1.
By Dan Moffett
It might be time for Ocean Ridge to think about adding a motto to the town seal.
How about “World Leader in Beach Access Opinions”?
Town commissioners heard plenty of them from residents during a lively 2½-hour workshop that e
By Dan Moffett
Homeowners and house flippers who ignore code violations aren’t likely to get much sympathy from the Ocean Ridge Town Commission these days.
Ask Prodigy Capital, a Palm Beach Gardens-based real estate investment group that pl
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge commissioners have grudgingly agreed to give the owners of the town’s five-store business district a three-month extension to submit plans for overhauling the 60-foot-deep strip at 5011 N. Ocean Blvd.
But they warned
By Rich Pollack
Marsha Love’s The Cat at Cason Cottage may be the only children’s book set in Delray Beach that includes a cat named Clarabelle, a series of friendly ghosts and, of course, lots of local history.
Love — a descendent of early
By Tim Pallesen
Fishermen have won the right to fish for sharks off all but the public beaches in Delray Beach.
“There’s nothing good about shark fishing near a public beach,” Mayor Cary Glickstein said as city commissioners reached a compr
INSET BELOW: Barbara Sella’s vizsla, Ridley, was killed seven years ago by a car speeding around a curve and past her house.
By Mary Thurwachter
On Hypoluxo Island, residents can watch palm tree-framed sunsets from their front porches and bird w
By Dan Moffett
Town Council President Sue Thaler says Briny Breezes got its “wrist slapped” in December when the Palm Beach County Office of Inspector General released a report criticizing how the town does its business.
But it was really m
Dr. Joe MacInnis relaxes at the beach in front of his home in Delray Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
MacInnis with film director James Cameron.
Photo provided
By Cheryl Blackerby
Dr. Joe MacInnis can see the Atlantic from his home in Delray B
INSET BELOW: Manalapan Officer David Hul
By Dan Moffett
Town officials have moved to fire a three-year veteran of the police department over the officer’s handling of a February incident involving employees at Manalapan Pizza.
The town
Alice ‘Nainie’ Weems Weaver holds a painting of her father,
Dr. Nathaniel Marion Weems Sr., Boynton Beach’s first doctor.
Town Clerk A.U. Peterson (left), Dr. Weems Sr., vice mayor, and Mayor Marcus A. Weaver
at the dedication of the shuffleboard co
