South Palm Beach nonunion employees would get a $1,500 bonus and perhaps a cost-of-living increase under a $1.7 million budget proposed by Town Manager Rex Taylor.
In a budget message, Taylor asked council members to consider cost-of-living
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Marie Speed takes a moment from an hourlong practice session to pose with her dance coach and partner James Brann.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
Oh, the things a good woman will do for a good cause.
For five years, Marie Speed maint
The new Galaxy Elementary School in Boynton Beach will be the greenest school campus in the state when it opens this month. At its heart is a two-story Wonderment Center, a gathering and learning spot.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Former Ga
By Tim Pallesen and Steve Plunkett
Don’t fret, Delray Beach. You are going to get your very own Trader Joe’s after all.
City officials began to worry after the California-based specialty grocer announced early last month that it will ope
By Jane Smith
Four companies submitted proposals last month in a bid to become the operator of the Lantana airport.
They are: Galaxy Aviation, Pahokee Airport, Saker Aviation and Sheltair Aviation.
The county’s Department of Airports is
Just before the settlement, nearly 20 signs had been painted on the walls and shutters of Martin O’Boyle’s home. Most had been removed by July 30. Jerry Lower/ The Coastal Star
By Tim O’Meilia
Tweedledum and Tweedledee will soon be gone from
Below, inset left: Stephanie Immelman
Below, inset right: Karen Granger
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Note: Each month The Coastal Star features news from the businesses in our community. Business Spotlight is presented as a service to our advertisers and the
Gulf Stream School administrators are asking residents to donate historic photos, old yearbooks, uniforms and other memorabilia of the early decades of the school. Photo provided
By Rich Pollack
If you went to Gulf Stream School and have old unifo
There was plenty of room to run during Colonial Animal Hospital’s open house.
Below, Dr. Rob Martin talks with Vicki Stallings and her 7-month-old dog, Xena.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Clarification
A business spotlight in August about Co
By Tim O’Meilia
If Gulf Stream residents want new street lights and street signs, they’ll pay for them with a 24 percent increase in town property tax that will stretch over the next two years.
That tax hike was also slated to pay for the town
By Steve Plunkett
The Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency will give away land under the Little House Restaurant and the Oscar Magnuson house — the city’s oldest structure — to lure a Delray Beach law firm and jumpstart development downt
The Junior League of Boca Raton recently named its new board of directors for the 2013-24 year.
Its mission: to volunteer, raise money, help develop the potential of women and improve the community
through leadership and action. Photo: (front row)
Academy of the Arts middle-school students took center stage during three free performances
of ‘The Magical Land of Oz.’ Attendees included students from Title I and other area schools,
as well as the community-at-large. ‘We are so grateful for the
Local patrons, Boston natives and members of the Boca Raton Running Club (pictured above)
joined forces to raise money for The One Fund, a nonprofit organization established to aid
the victims and families affected by the Boston Marathon bombings. T
To strengthen cultural and culinary bonds, Delray Beach Mayor Cary Glickstein joined Miyazo, Japan Mayor Shoji Inoue
and his Sister Cities delegation for a July lunch at Caffe Luna Rosa in Delray Beach.
Joining them were Karen Granger, president and
By Steve Pike
If you’re looking for some great reading, try Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson, which tells the story of scientist Isaac Cline, one of the country’s first meteorologists, and the events leading up to the September 1900 hurricane that k
Ocean Ridge resident Joyce Bruck (shown here with her Chihuahua Chi Chi)
travels extensively, using two Canon cameras to capture images
of the humans, the wildlife and the scenery she encounters.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Joyce Bruck of Ocean
By Emily J. Minor
MANALAPAN — Around town, they called her “Manalapan’s mom” — mostly because she was friendly and kind and downright adorable. “The past four or five years, she gave up the snowbird thing and just lived down here permanently,” s
About 20 volunteers (including Gael Silverblatt, below, at left) took part
in a recent planting of mangrove seedlings just north of the Lake Worth Bridge.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
A fisherman on a yellow and oran
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach town commissioners last month gave tentative approval to a proposed revamping and streamlining of the way emergency calls are received and emergency vehicles dispatched.
If commissioners give formal approval t
