Inez Layne flies a dragon kite with her daughters Rhyan and Elle Fleisher, during Family Fun Day at The Cornell Museum in Delray Beach. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Kelly Wolfe
What a kite is or isn’t depends on who’s flying it. It could be me
Ralph Papa gives painting tips to Boca Raton resident Trish Kahn outside his studio in Delray Beach. Photos by Tim Stepien/
The Coastal Star
By Lucy Lazarony
They meet. They paint. They chat and exchange ideas.
They capture the diverse beauty
Norah Long as Judy Garland in Beyond the Rainbow, at Arts Garage in Delray Beach. Photo by Amy Pasquantonio
By Greg Stepanich
Something there is in the American character that loves its tragic heroes and heroines, and show business provides sever
AJ Brockman with his service dog, Dre, a Labrador retriever that has been nominated for top honors at the American Hero Dog Awards. Photo provided
By Arden Moore
Last year, I celebrated my Oct. 6 birthday in style — by getting a birthday hug fro
By Tim O’Meilia
Ocean Ridge town commissioners will consider giving town employees a 3 percent raise, buying two police cars, a tree-trimming bucket truck and an all-terrain beach vehicle, and replacing the town’s outdated computer system — all in n
By Tim Pallesen
The race has begun between Delray Beach and Boca Raton to decide which city opens a Trader Joe’s first.
The California-based specialty grocer announced last month that it will open a store on Sout
Please join us at 3 pm Saturday for the grand opening of Colonial Animal Hospital's new location at Federal Highway and Gateway Boulevard in Boynton Beach:
A man that police allege is part of a "pillow case" gang from Lauderdale Lakes in Broward County was arrested on Coconut Lane in Ocean Ridge on the afternoon of July 9 after escaping from officers during an earlier apprehension.
Damian Presiga, of Britannia Pacific Properties retrieves the Ritz-Carlton lion logo as Gaddi Dominguez takes down the rest of the Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach sign on July 1 in Manalapan.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Manalapan: Ritz name change concerns
Workers for Asplundh Tree Expert Co. use a bucket truck to safely position themselves while removing tree branches near power lines along A1A in Ocean Ridge. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Tim O’Meilia
Most coastal residents won’t have to flee
BRINY BREEZES — After a lifetime career at IBM and many years helping to raise four children, Marcelino Solis Jr. found his final days of peace and quiet on a porch at the end of a road.
“My dad had reached a state of what he called content
By Emily J. Minor
DELRAY BEACH — Insiders often called him ‘‘the nicest guy in the room.” But Edward Ernesto Iacobucci was also known as the visionary who had the nerve to leave IBM in 1989 and develop computer technology that would lead to a co
Army veteran Gerald Bregman of Highland Beach with his service medals.
Bregman (shown below in inset in 1943), landed at Normandy
with the 7th Armored Division and moved east to block the Nazi surge
known as the Battle of the Bulge. The Nazis captur
Lindsey Gasparini (left), one of the owners of The Wine Wave, talks wine with David Spitzer, former owner
of the space, previously known as Old Vines, and Delray Beach residents
Eric Gebhard and Michele Palenscar.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
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Ocean Avenue bridge construction, photographed facing west, shows the expanse of the project. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Tim O’Meilia
The new, $32 million East Ocean Avenue bridge is two-thirds complete, and fishermen can relax. The fishing pier
By Tim O’Meilia
Condominium entrance sign lettering and logos may be a bit larger under South Palm Beach’s new sign code, but Town Council members insist on being the deciders on variances.
The council agreed to revamp the code at its June 25 m
By Thomas R. Collins
The town of Gulf Stream can move forward with its efforts to get resident Martin O’Boyle’s murals of protest off his waterfront home, a federal judge has ruled. O’Boyle filed an emergency request to stop the proceedings, sayin
By Tim O’Meilia
Gulf Stream will try to renew its long-running contract for garbage pickup without seeking competitive bids.
Town commissioners agreed with Town Manager William Thrasher’s recommendation to negotiate a new contract with Waste M
By Tim O’Meilia
In 2012, the town of Gulf Stream had two of the longest-serving elected officials in Palm Beach County. William Koch was in his 47th year as mayor when he died last year, and Vice Mayor Joan Orthwein is in her 18th as a town commis
