Rescuers pull ashore Capt. Jimmy Stevens from the wreckage of the Two Georges.
Photo by Stan Sheets/Boynton Beach Star, Courtesy of the Boynton Beach City Library
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By Willie Howard
Ship’s mate Don Lash knew it would be unwise to panic.
Th
Jack and Bea Fearon, left, Steve and Mary Lou Cousley, David and Marie Vladyka and Jeri and Bob Bové renew vows. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
Fifty years ago, the Beatles invaded America, the first ZIP code appeared, the first lung wa
The first sea turtles are arriving and the first snowbirds are departing.
It’s been a record-breaking tourist season, and most locals have long ago surrendered to the sunburned hordes and no longer try to dine out on weekends or venture anyw
World War II Navy veteran Ernie Simon, and his wife, Norma, look at a mannequin
dressed in a WWII 101st Airborne uniform in the Cason Cottage at the Delray Beach Historical Society
during the ‘Delray Beach: The World War II Experience.’
Kurtis Boggs
Notable golf course deigners and Gulf Stream residents Pete and Alice Dye were inducted into the
Palm Beach County Sports Hall of Fame by Guy Quattlebaum, president of the Palm Beach County
Sports Commission Board of Directors (left) and Richard Ell
From left, Bob Ganger, Joan Orthwein, Thomas Stanley, Donna White and Scott Morgan
are sworn in by Gulf Stream Town Clerk Rita Taylor.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Dan Moffett
Gulf Stream voters turned out in large numbers last month for th
By Jane Smith
An 18 percent annual increase in your flood-insurance premium is a hefty hike, but it beats the 25 percent that many coastal homeowners were facing.
A new federal law caps increases at 18 percent for primary residences. Owners o
Newly elected Jordana Jarjura and reelected Al Jacquet.
Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal Star
By Tim Pallesen
Newcomer Jordana Jarjura upset incumbent Angeleta Gray in the March 11 city election, possibly shifting the balance of power on the Delray Be
The owners want to rebuild the Seagate Yacht Club with 10 townhouses and a clubhouse.
Rendering provided
By Tim Pallesen
Plans to rebuild the Seagate Yacht Club are drawing positive response from coastal residents south of Atlantic Avenue.
Dawn Toimil started a multiple myeloma support group.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Linda Haase
When Dawn Toimil’s doctor sent her for pre-op clearance for foot surgery, she figured it was a routine test. Instead, he discovered an abnormality
Delray Beach Police Detective Matthew Naparstek monitors the crowd
in front of The Blue Anchor Pub during the city’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Tim Pallesen
More children and less alcohol made a better St. Patric
By Cheryl Blackerby
The little olive ridley sea turtle rescued on Lantana Beach on Christmas Day is on the road to recovery at Loggerhead Marinelife Center.
“She was moved into a bigger tank because she had been bumping her head against the s
Police Officer Robert McAllister of the Ocean Ridge Police Department
wrote up four different bicyclists who ran a red light on A1A.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Law enforcement officers along the coast of Palm Beach County – fr
A 1940s aerial photo of Hypoluxo Island, viewed from the north,
with the original bridge that was replaced in 1950.
Photo courtesy of the Historical Society of Palm Beach County
Narine Ebersold, 87, has lived on Hypoluxo Island since she was a you
By Dan Moffett
After a spate of hiring in recent weeks, the South Palm Beach Police Department is at full strength for the first time since last summer.
During a period of rare turnover, the department lost its chief last fall when Roger Cran
Council members reflected on the career and life of former Mayor Marty Millar, after word came from Lantana police that he had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on March 23.
Millar, 67, served four years as a town councilman and two year
By Jan Norris
Delray residents must be suffering from a serious sweet tooth — the number of shops that slake a sugar craving are mushrooming in downtown.
From sexy, fashion-themed cupcakes to delicate French macarons, towering Tiffany box cakes
New Ocean Ridge commissioners Richard Lucibella (left) and James Bonfiglio
pose moments after being sworn in on March 19.
Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal Star
By Dan Moffett
The Ocean Ridge Town Commission had put off making the hard decisions about a
Manalapan Town Clerk Lisa Petersen administers the oath of office to Commissioner-Elect Clark Appleby,
left, Commissioner-Elect Ronald Barsanti and Vice-Mayor Louis De Stefano in the Manalapan
Commission Chambers on March 25.
Kurtis Boggs/The Coasta
By Cheryl Blackerby
The last of four beach renourishment projects is underway, and it’s up against an April 30th deadline that may not be met if rough seas continue.
Work on the project at Boca Raton’s north beach started March 23. The dredg
