Students from Gina Bentivegna’s class at Pope John Paul II High School in Boca Raton pose for a selfie
in front of the mural they painted Nov. 8 in the Boynton Beach Arts District. The PJPII mural
joined others as part of the Bay Gates Mural Project.
Nick Ourusoff (l-r), Bill Poist, John Powless and Don Mathais at the finals in San Isidro, Agentina.
Photo provided
By Steve Pike
Ocean Ridge resident Bill Poist is finishing 2014 on a high note. Poist and his doubles partner, Donald Mathias of St
Capt. Chip Sheehan flies a fishing kite to keep live bait near the surface.
He holds the head of a sailfish up briefly for a photo
before releasing it. Mate Billy Blackman, background,
caught the sailfish using a live bait dangled from a fishing kit
The Plate: Chicken Fennel Ravioli
The Place: Café Frankie’s, 640 E. Ocean Ave., Boynton Beach; 732-3834 or online www.cafe
frankies.com
The Price: $18.50
The Skinny: We love Café Frankie’s — from the food to the ambience to Frankie himself — a parrot t
Tricia and Jordan Hess and their son Brandon play Mary,
Joseph and Jesus in ‘Come to Bethlehem.’
Photo provided
By Tim Pallesen
Delray Beach offers the best opportunity to get into the Christmas spirit early this month.
• Begin your adventu
Eleven new patients are being cared for at the Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Facility at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center. The Kemp ridley turtles, shipped in from Massachusetts on Nov. 25, are being treated for cold stunning, a hypothermic reaction that oc
Thomas the Train is always a popular activity. Photo provided
By Shelley Gilken
Breakfast with Santa is an old tradition at the Boca Raton Children’s Museum. For 21 years, families have come to this special event each year for the classic Santa C
By Christine Davis
The former Manalapan Fl. oceanfront home of the late Generoso Pope, founder and publisher of the National Enquire, is for sale yet again.
Located on three acres at 1370 S. Ocean Blvd., it is undergoing extensive renovations t
The Delray Beach Bike Club hosted a one-hour Human Powered Delray Bicycle Safety Awareness Ride
in October. The cyclists, complete with police escort, rode east across the George Bush Boulevard Bridge
in an effort to draw attention to the need to rep
WORKING: The town of Ocean Ridge spent $450,000
to finish a drainage and pump project last year on Coconut Lane,
a street that used to flood on a regular basis. Photographed at peak high tide, the system is working.
NOT YET: Sarah Mitchell looks for
Lois Pope
Photo provided
By Emily J. Minor
It’s a Thursday, just a little past midmorning, and Lois Pope is watching the NASDAQ on a flat-screen TV hanging in her office. The television’s small, and clearly she could afford something bigger.
If all of the negative campaign ads flooding the airwaves this midterm election have you feeling like you don’t want to vote for anyone, because they won’t tell you where they stand on anything, I understand.
At The Coastal Star we don’t do end
Nilsa McKinney is chairwoman of this year’s Women of Grace Luncheon.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
For Nilsa McKinney, it’s a good day when she gets to kick off her shoes and stroll along the beach in shorts and a T-shirt.
And
I have lived in Ocean Ridge since 1988. Those years have been eventful. Once I opened my mail box to come face to face with a large red snake about twice the diameter of my wrist. With my heart pounding out of my chest, I slammed the door shut an
I am writing in hopes that you will be interested in the other side of the story you recently printed about Manalapan police grievances.
The union was accepted in Manalapan as the result of poor management that was evident by the huge turnover
Christine Ashburn, Citizens insurance VP, works with Candy Alexandra to review her insurance policy.
With Sen. Maria Sachs looking on, Bobby Jurovaty encourages members of the crowd to talk to their agents.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
INSE
By Dan Moffett
In August, Ocean Ridge town commissioners rejected a last-ditch proposal from the Sivitilli family to renovate their beleaguered commercial building at 5011 N. Ocean Blvd.
As it turns out, however, that was only a penultimate
By Dan Moffett
The hostilities between the town of Gulf Stream and two litigious residents appear destined to get a whole lot more hostile in the weeks ahead.
And the case the town is preparing against Martin O’Boyle and Christopher O’Ha
Waves from Hurricane Sandy damaged many seawalls in Manalapan. This photo taken Oct. 30, 2012,
shows the Arcaini estate (left) and its adjoining lot. The musician Yanni’s estate, right,
lost its seawall and had damage to the swimming pool and home.
F
By Mary Thurwachter
The director of sales and marketing for The Carlisle Palm Beach and her husband have been charged with money laundering, organized fraud and grand theft.
Lantana police arrested Natasha Deonath and her husband, Rodney Ja
