The after-school program at St. Paul’s includes tutoring, like Joyce Harvey (above) helping Brian Saint Val with his math, and a daily meal enjoyed by dozens of students, including Rachelle Poliard and Angie Cyril (below). Photos by Jerry Lower/The C
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Women participate in a qigong class near Boca Raton’s South Beach Pavilion. The ancient Chinese class is offered by Lisa Perdue and Enrique Diaz. Paula Detwiller/The Coastal Star
By Paula Detwiller
At first glance, it looks like humanoid robots have
By Emily J. Minor
DELRAY BEACH — Margaret H. Floyd, who began coming to South Florida in the 1960s and enjoyed coming back year after year to nurture her love for tennis and all her friendships, died Sept. 17. A memorial service was held a few day
Miller
Mary Thurwachter
BOYNTON BEACH — Friends and family of community news journalist Anne “Nancy” Fontaine Maury Miller will remember her during a service at 11 a.m. Oct. 13 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Delray Beach.
Mrs. Miller, 79, died
Millar
By Tim O’Meilia
Hours after he spoke at a South Palm Beach Town Council meeting on Sept. 19, former Mayor Martin Millar was arrested after reportedly using a flashlight to attack a man in a Palm Beach Gardens club.
After his arrest, Mill
The South Palm Beach Town Council approved a $1.75 million budget during September public hearings that will hold the tax rate at $4.32 for each $1,000 of taxable property value, the same as this year’s rate.
The town will dip into reserves for $117
Shoeman
By Tim O’Meilia
Briny Breezes last month hired its third deputy town clerk in 15 months following the forced resignation of Cindy Corum after nine months on the job.
Town Clerk pro tem Nancy Boczon, also an alderman, promised Corum th
Director Amy London gives instruction to Hannah Joyce, 13,
of Ocean Ridge, at The Plaza Theatre in Manalapan. London is
leading the students in Frank Loesser’s 1961 musical How to
Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. Tim Stepien/The Coastal
Mary Thurwachter aboard the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile when she was editor of the News Journal. Photo by Paul Milette
By Mary Thurwachter
I was the editor of the Delray Beach/Boynton Beach News Journal the day it perished on Nov. 20, 1986.
Overseein
Megan Mulry’s A Royal Pain will be in
bookstores Nov. 1. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
“What can I do while the kids are in school?”
Some women learn to play tennis. Some take up yoga.
Megan Mulry tackled a royal romance.
Her famil
Janet and Jack Zurell enjoy a spin in their golf
cart in Briny Breezes. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
He made sure there were movies and she reported the news — along with a dollop of wit and inspiration.
Briny Breezes residents since 1990, Ja
By Ron Hayes
HIGHLAND BEACH — On his 90th birthday, Allen Schweizer went out to dinner with family and friends and pronounced himself happy with his long life. If I die tomorrow, he told them, I’ll feel I’ve lived a good, full life.
“And he got mor
October 6
Saturday - 10/6 - Spooky Halloween Saturdays are held at The Ritz-Carlton, Palm Beach, 1000 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan throughout October. Gingerbread haunted house building, costumes, pumpkin decorating, candy and Halloween movies. Noon-4 pm
By Tim O’Meilia
Hours after he spoke at a South Palm Beach town council meeting, former mayor Martin Millar was arrested for allegedly attacking a man with a flashlight in a Palm Beach Gardens club.
Millar, 66, was released on his own recognizance Fr
By Tim Pallesen
Citizens Insurance is notifying owners of homes valued over $1 million that their insurance coverage will be cancelled.
Coastal communities are hardest hit, according to data released by the state insurer.
Cancellation notic
Ryan Butts, the turtle rehabilitation coordinator at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton, works with volunteers Sue Comoglio (from left), Lloyd Wiener and and Connie Thomas-Mazur on Cindy, who was injured and lost her left flipper in a shark at
By Tim Pallesen
The thrill in having a public golf course on the ocean isn’t measured by just dollars and cents. But the deficit to operate the Red Reef Golf Course in Boca Raton has been increasing in recent years.
So much so, in fact, that the ci
Boca Raton Police have charged a city parks employee with voyeurism after learning that he had video recorded a woman and her 10-year-old daughter as they changed clothing in the bathroom at Red Reef Park.
A day after his Aug. 21 arrest, Boca Raton
Town Manager Kathleen Weiser
By Steve Plunkett
The Highland Beach librarian says the town manager is “non-communicative” and has spurned invitations to meet with her or attend library staff meetings in her 18-month tenure.
Librarian Mari Suar
