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Beachgoers at South Inlet Park in Boca Raton must navigate trash in addition to seaweed. Photo provided by Bill Miller

By Cheryl Blackerby
For four years, Bill Miller has walked across A1A from his condo in Boca Raton to the county beach at South Inle

By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach is planning to have a Christmas tree in front of town hall this year that won’t rapidly deteriorate and become a fire hazard.
Commissioners last month approved a plan to spend up to $5,500 for a commercial-grade, 14-foot

Florence Mascott flew WASP missions. Photo provided

Related story: Local pilot helps re-create women's WWII air journey

By Ron Hayes

“You know,” Florence Mascott says, proudly, “whenever the women pilots know there’s a WASP on the plane, they always c

Pilot Elizabeth Ackerly joined Alan Anders, Jeff Geer and Mark Kandianis on a flight in a T-6 warplane from Bellingham, Wash., to Great Falls, Mont., then to Fairbanks, Alaska. Photo provided

Related story: Wartime challenge begets lifelong dedicatio

By Tim Pallesen

    East Atlantic Avenue traffic congestion remains a concern as the proposed Atlantic Crossing development goes before Delray Beach officials for site plan and design approval.
In response to residents’ concerns, the developer drew a

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