By Rich Pollack
The Highland Beach Town Commission last month gave final approval to a $11.35 million general fund budget for the 2014-15 fiscal year — while at the same time holding the line on the town’s operating tax rate at $3.95 per $1,000 of
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By Rich Pollack
After six months and more than $900,000 worth of improvements, Highland Beach’s Town Hall renovation project is all but complete. Now commissioners are trying to figure out how to show off the enhancements.
Commissioners, at a workshop
Customers are greeted with the aloha treatment, complete with leis, at the opening of the new Trader Joe’s store at 855 S. Federal Highway at the corner of Southeast Eighth Street in Boca Raton on Sept. 26. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Holy Cross Urgent Care and Imaging Center will open a new office at 1799 S. Federal Highway in Boca Raton.
A grand opening celebration, with tours, giveaways, paraffin dips, prizes and refreshments, will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Oct. 15. For more informa
Mary Huddleston Waxman, a graduate of Florida International University with a bachelor’s of music in applied voice, provides voice instruction to children participating in the joint effort between Sol Children Theatre of Boca Raton and Karen Slattery
By Tim Pallesen
City Hall has undergone a transformation in the 18 months since Mayor Cary Glickstein and Commissioner Shelly Petrolia were elected.
New top administrators are in place.The addition of Jordana Jarjura to the commission last M
Nearly 250 Gulf Stream School students took part in the ALS challenge in honor of Bill Shannon.
Watch video from the event
INSET BELOW: Anna and Bill Shannon have two children who are students at Gulf Stream School.
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October is here and “season” has begun. So, to arm you with plenty of planning material for the busy months ahead, you will find inside this edition some special features.
• The ArtsPaper is back with your complete guide to the 2014-15 cultura
Gail Marino, who founded the Gold Coast Down Syndrome organization,
which now serves 350 families, with her daugher Kim.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Mary Thurwachter
Gail Marino will never forget the day her daughter Kim was born, 39 years ag
Steve Alley stands on the northeast corner of Palmetto Park Road and Northeast Fifth Avenue across from the busy Trattoria Romana restaurant pointing out traffic issues.
Sallie James/The Coastal Star
By Sallie James
Boca Raton will spend $50,000
By Sallie James
If a Florida ballot measure legalizing the use of medical marijuana passes in November, the City of Boca Raton won’t be going up in smoke.
At least not right away.
On Sept. 23, the City Council introduced an ordinance that wo
The Boca Raton Police Department continues its search for a man who attacked a woman with a baseball bat on Sept. 18.
The incident occurred at about 8:50 a.m. in a parking lot in the 900 block of South Ocean Boulevard, just north of East Camino Re
Surveillance cameras are popping up everywhere.
The McCormick Mile Beach Club, known to many as the little pink house on the beach side at the inlet, is looking better than ever today. Freshly painted slate blue with white trim, the clubhouse had
Rendering of potential look provided by Bob Currie
By Tim Pallesen
A “world-class” appearance has been ordered for the city’s municipal beach — possibly with an open vista to the ocean at Atlantic Avenue.
City commissioners on Sept. 16 direct
By Tim Pallesen
The downtown’s third new hotel is described by its developer as a “funky-looking establishment that fits funky Delray.”
Plans to build the 120-room hotel on southbound Federal Highway two blocks south of Atlantic Avenue w
By Tim Pallesen
City commissioners urged more generosity for police officers as they approved a $103 million city budget that will increase taxes for most property owners.
The new tax rate of $7.46 for every $1,000 in taxable value is slig
By Dan Moffett
Briny Breezes residents will get a rare chance to go one-on-one with state officials over property insurance issues when state Sen. Maria Sachs holds a workshop in the town’s ocean clubhouse beginning at 1 p.m. on Oct. 7.
Sachs,
By Dan Moffett
Gulf Stream residents first started talking about moving their utility lines underground back in 2008, and the Town Commission came up with a plan to do it in 2010.
The thinking then was that the $5.4 million project could be com
INSET BELOW: Police Chief Carmen Mattox
By Dan Moffett
Manalapan Police Chief Carmen Mattox will undergo ethnic diversity counseling, and the town has given him a written reprimand in response to an officer’s harassment complaint stemming from a
By Dan Moffett
Minutes before approving a much-anticipated beach ordinance, Ocean Ridge town commissioners inserted a few words into the new law that could complicate its enforcement.
The commission decided to make it a violation for motorists
