The Grass River Garden Club presented a $5,000 check to the Delray Beach Historical Society
in front of the The Ethel Sterling Williams Archive and Learning Center
in Delray Beach. The gift was to enable installation of flowering, native landscapin
The Grass River Garden Club presented a $5,000 check to the Delray Beach Historical Society
in front of the The Ethel Sterling Williams Archive and Learning Center
in Delray Beach. The gift was to enable installation of flowering, native landscapin
The grounds of the Freedom North Lakeside Garden provide
a healing place for people to be with nature including coral honeysuckle (below).
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
As you sit on a wooden bench in the sh
One more upcoming "Rosie" event... this one at 5:30 pm, Monday Feb. 10:
Florida Wildlife Encounter
Ocean Ridge Town Hall, 6450 N. Ocean Blvd.
5:30 pm, Monday, Feb. 10
Cheryl Wise Busch from Busch Wildlife Sanctuary presents "Florida Wildlife Encoun
The League of Women Voters is sponsoring a candidates forum starting at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 26 at 6500 N. Congress Avenue in Boca Raton. League member Barbara Eriv will moderate.
Candidates who will attend are:
For mayor: Anthony Majhess and Susan Haynie.
Renee Taylor is positively effusive.
There’s no mistaking — she loves South Florida.
The actress, known for her role on television’s “The Nanny,” was in town for a monthlong run in “My Life on a Diet: Confessions of a Hollywood Diet Junkie” at The
Police and licensed trappers capture a rare American crocodile Jan. 5 on the Little Club Golf Course
in Gulf Stream. This same crocodile also may have been spotted along the Intracoastal Waterway
from Boca Raton to Lake Worth. It was transferred to
Residents watch testimony presented by project appellants at the Jan. 21 Delray Beach City Commission meeting.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Tim Pallesen
Atlantic Crossing has its final city approval — but wi
Cory Lambe (left) clears out drains along Lands End Road on Hypoluxo Island.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Bill Otis and Challis Thompson chat while checking out flooding on the north end
of McKinley Park on Hypoluxo Island.
By Dan Moff
Perry O’Neal has stepped down as president of the board
of Wayside House, but will remain active with the center,
which helps women battle addiction.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Linda Haase
Perry O’Neal’s message is simple: There is hel
I agree with you that public funding for sand replacement on beaches should allow access to public beaches.
In Ocean Ridge we have four public parks either within or adjacent to the town. Three of these parks front the ocean. The town also h
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge commissioners, who have struggled for months trying to decide how to manage access to their public beaches, got some free legal advice from a resident who also happens to be a Palm Beach County circuit judge.
Lucy C
By Dan Moffett
Gulf Stream commissioners came to their first meeting of the new year primed for a lively discussion with the town’s civic association over a charter change to staggered elections.
What commissioners got instead was another deb
Two of Gulf Stream’s harshest and loudest critics have picked up campaign packets from the town clerk and are considering a run for the Town Commission in the March 11 municipal election.
Martin O’Boyle, who took the town to court last year i
Admiral is a 40-foot fiberglass boat licensed to carry 43 people. It will depart Boynton Harbor Marina.
Photo provided
By Jane Smith
After four years and $20,253 in federal tax money, the Boynton Harbor Marina has a water taxi operator.
Ca
With five years of publishing this local newspaper under my belt, my skin has grown a little thicker.
I still dread phone calls the Monday after we deliver since I worry we’ve made some error, or omitted some item or caused some reader distr
Plans for the condo at 3200 S. Ocean Blvd. call for 20 units.
Rendering provided
By Rich Pollack
A developer with a reputation for building high-end projects in south Palm Beach County has become the latest in a long line of owners hoping to f
Gerard Laurore walks the jetty at the Boynton Inlet, where he serves
as live-in caretaker for the county’s Ocean Inlet Park.
Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Laurore stands in front of the apartment that is provided to him
by the county a
A game of volleyball is played in front of the original 1929 pavilion, which sat at the beach end
of Atlantic Avenue (BELOW) across from the old Seacrest Hotel.
INSET BELOW: Today’s new pavilion is located in roughly the same spot,
behind a prote