By Tim O’Meilia
The choice for the Gulf Stream Town Commission was time or money.
Award the long-awaited contract to put overhead utilities underground now or wait two months to make the award and perhaps save $165,000.
They chose time.
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By Steve Plunkett
Ground hasn’t been broken yet, but the long-awaited Interstate 95 interchange on Spanish River Boulevard already has attracted development that someday will generate 13,300 trips per day.
Boca Raton City Council members ap
Boca Raton will defer to new Mizner Park tenant Lord & Taylor and to Black Friday shoppers and light its holiday tree the day before Thanksgiving instead of the day after.
In June, City Council members, sitting as the Community Redevelopment
By Tim O’Meilia
Ocean Ridge town commissioners continued to wrestle with how to pay for six “wish list” items that would cost $167,000 in next year’s budget.
Making all the wishes come true would mean dipping further into town reserves — up to
Rendering provided by Singer Architects of Fort Lauderdale
By Jane Smith
The Palm Beach County Park Airport (Lantana airport) will get a new operator in April, the first change in 60 years. And with that new operator will come $5.5 million in imp
By Steve Plunkett
Forgive the city manager if he sounds almost giddy over Boca Raton’s finances.
“If you live in neighboring Delray — we hear lots of great things and Delray’s a great place — but you’ll pay twice as much in city property taxe
A Lantana woman died Sept. 1 after being ejected from a boat in the Intracoastal Waterway off Point Manalapan.
Karen Roberts, 42, was a passenger with two other people on a 19-foot Dusky center console when the boat took a sudden right-hand turn in ro
Stella Page, 7, poses for photographer Oona Cruger at Boca Raton Resort & Club
on Aug. 23. Stella is a Boca resident and a student at St. Andrew’s School.
French designer Laure Nell used the resort as background location for the shooting
of her Spr
Florida Power & Light Co. will be installing 40 new concrete utility poles along a stretch of State Road A1A, and that could mean temporary service interruptions for some customers and periodic lane closures affecting motorists.
The poles, s
Dozens of SCUBA divers took part in the Third Annual Southeast Florida Reef Cleanup, in search of trash that has collected on the natural reefs off the Palm Beach County coast. This group of divers, representing Dolphin Sun Dive Charters, displays th
Members of the Three Buoys Fishing Team, out of Palm Beach, hold the head of a 36-pound wahoo that they caught during the Delray Beach Jaycees’ 2013 Mark Garretson Memorial Fishing Tournament. The head was all that was left after a hungry shark ate
The Linton Boulevard Bridge will be closed from 6 a.m. Sept. 12, to 6 p.m. Sept. 18, for repairs and maintenance.
The bridge division of the Palm Beach County Engineering and Public Works Department already has put out message-board signs to notify re
By Steve Plunkett
A new name is coming to Oceanfront Park, but whether it will be called Boynton Beach or Boynton Beach Oceanfront Beach Park or something else altogether remains to be seen.
Boynton Beach city commissioners wrestled Aug. 20 with what t
Excentricities Manager Diana Myers, inside the recently expanded showroom
on Northeast Fifth Avenue in Delray Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
Excentricities recently expanded its Delray Beach showroom by more than 25 percent,
Correction: A story in the September edition incorrectly attributed a statement to Manalapan Town Commissioner Howard Roder. Town Manager Linda Stumpf stated that she did not take both a car allowance and the use of a town-owned car.
By Tim O’Meilia
Cookie Donaldson presents Eric Finn (center) and Bryan Kennedy of Delray Beach with the first-place prize for catching the biggest lionfish in the annual derby. Their winning fish weighed 2 pounds. They also won second place for spearing the most lio
By Mary Thurwachter
In an effort to smooth the way for construction workers to complete the new Ocean Avenue Bridge by the target date at the end of November, the Lantana Town Council last month gave the green light to Sunday work.
In July, the counc
By Steve Plunkett
Domestic partners of city workers may receive even better benefits than their counterparts in Wellington.
City Attorney Diana Grub Frieser reported Aug. 26 on how City Council members could add sexual orientation and gender
Cary and Rick Caster stand by a planting of lemongrass outside of 21 Drops. The company sells essential-oil blends online and in select retailers. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
When Cary Caster was raising her three children, she used coconut oi
BOCA RATON — Philip Vultaggio, a former resident of Massapequa, N.Y., passed away at his home in Boca Raton on Aug. 19 at the age of 91. He was dearly loved by his family and respected by all who knew him.
Born on Feb. 4, 1922, in Brooklyn, N
