By Rich Pollack
While Delray Beach considers whether to have Palm Beach County Fire Rescue provide its fire service, the town of Highland Beach is hedging its bets and planning discussions to determine the feasibility of having Boca Raton replace
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By Rich Pollack
A proposed $3.5 million sale of Highland Beach town-owned property in Boca Raton, which has been mired in bureaucratic red tape for almost a year, may soon become a done deal. But until it is, the town will receive $3,500 a month f
Finding a parking space at Gumbo Limbo can be a challange.
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By Cheryl Blackerby
Expanded ocean views on Red Reef Park Executive Golf Course, safer pedestrian crossing on A1A at Red Reef Park, and increased revenue for
By Sallie James
The financially struggling Boca Raton Children’s Museum is hanging on by a thread, thanks to a stream of donations totaling about $7,500 that will enable the nonprofit to continue operating through June. Museum officials had ho
By Jane Smith
HIGHLAND BEACH — Ingeborg Rand’s last wish was to die at home. At age 90, surrounded there by husband John and family, she died May 20 from complications from a fall.
Known affectionately as Inge (IN-ga) to family and friends, Mrs
Barb Schmidt watches as her books roll down the line
at HCI Printing and Publishing in Deerfield Beach.
Photos provided
Barb Schmidt introduced her book, The Practice, during an event at Florida Atlantic University last month.
INSET BELOW: Cover of
The Plate: Penne Tomato & Basil
The Place: Al Fresco, at the Palm Beach Par 3 Golf Course, 2345 S. Ocean Blvd., Palm Beach; 273-4130 or alfrescopb.com
The Price: $16.50
The Skinny: We had been wanting to check out the new clubhouse at the Palm Beach Par
Florida Federation of Garden Clubs president Sue Angle (left) honors
Boca Raton Garden Club president Carol Brown with the state
Garden Club of the Year award.
Photo provided
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
Carol Brown, president of the Boca Raton Gar
The Ocean Ridge Garden Club celebrated the 90th birthday of one
of its longtime members, Dottie Morrison, at its year-end luncheon May 7
at the Ocean Club of Florida in Ocean Ridge. Club president Kristine de Haseth
presents Morrison with an orchid a
Angler Rich Slipspil holds one of three wahoo caught aboard the Wish List last July
using bonito strips pulled behind trolling planers. Capt. J.P. Wolf found
the wahoo in about 185 feet of water just north of Hillsboro Inlet.
Photo courtesy of Tony D
More than 600 Jews and Christians walk in solidarity on Holocaust Memorial Day, April 27 in Boca Raton.
The march began at Boca Raton Christian School and ended at Temple Beth El.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
INSET BELOW: Greg Weisman and Jessica Br
A polydactyl cat stands on a desk near Ernest Hemingway’s typewriter at the Hemingway House in Key West.
Photo provided
By Arden Moore
Sporting a ZIP code from Palm Beach County certainly makes you the envy of those stuck in lackluster locations,
Flip Traylor with a bonefish caught around Little Torch Key
in the Florida Keys. The photo dates to the 1960s.
INSET BELOW: Fishing has been a family affair; Flip's wife,
Barbara Traylor, poses with a sailfish caught at Walkers Cay, Bahamas.
Family p
Professional surfer Peter Mendia, of West Palm Beach, rides a WaveJet surfboard near the Lake Worth Pier. Mendia says the propulsion system allows him to spend less time paddling and more time riding waves.
Photos by Willie Howard/The Coastal Star
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The Bamboo Room, which has drawn nationally known acts, is decorated with music memorabilia. Photo provided
By Thom Smith
Bamboo Room … Always full of surprises. For example, on Songwriters Night, when the guy at the microphone starts wailing a
Conrad Pickel designed this stained glass window at St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church in Boynton Beach. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Lucy Lazarony
Visionary and stained glass artist Conrad Pickel lived in Boynton Beach from 1974 to 1994.
Christine Lynn’s birthday was celebrated at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Christine E. Lynn Women’s Health & Wellness Institute. Lynn was accompanied by donors, hospital and city officials and hospital staff members. Her $10 million gift to es
Sandoway House Nature Center’s ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ affair attracted 160 supporters who dined, danced, bid on silent-auction items and raised more than $44,000. Photo: Jestena Boughton (left) gives Executive Director Danica Sanborn a chec
Jamie Bernstein (right) says when her father, Leonard, was alive, she took him for granted. Now she realizes his impact on generations of music lovers. Photos provided
By Greg Stepanich
As befits the daughter of an eminent man of music, Jamie Bernste
The National Society of Arts and Letters’ Florida East Coast Chapter selected 13 students to receive scholarships to colleges of their choice during an event chaired by Highland Beach resident Judi Asselta. Asselta introduced each student and present
