By Rich Pollack
Although Congress restored funding to the Federal Aviation Administration late last month to pay for air traffic controllers at major airports and avoid furloughs there, the fate of the tower at Boca Raton Airport — and 148 towers at s
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By Cheryl Blackerby
Delray Beach and Boca Raton are likely to receive long-awaited money for damage to beaches by Hurricane Sandy, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The two cities’ beach projects were among 16 projects around th
Residents of the Sabal Point Condominium on State Road A1A in Boca Raton gathered April 16 at a ‘Meet the Artist’ reception for the 10 fellow condo owners who submitted works for the Ninth Annual Art Show held at the seaside venue. Holding samples o
Sponsors, board members and trustees of the YMCA of South Palm Beach County were welcomed to the penthouse for a reception that preceded the organization’s March 8 prayer breakfast. The event featured entertainment, refreshments and networking for th
Highland Beach residents gathered to clean up the beach on April 8. Ben and Mayra Stern (above) were among the volunteers who spent several hours hours combing the beach, finding many plastic bottles and caps, broken flip-flops, plastic bags, balloon
More than 350 guests attended the inaugural fundraising event in an effort to raise money for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Well-known sports figures who attended included Bucky Dent, Jim Palmer and Bill Parcells. Donald Trump also participa
The Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce celebrated a day outdoors with community leaders, business professionals and local families – more than 600 in all – as part of its ‘Enhance the Community’ initiative. Florida Atlantic University mascot Owls
LEFT: Marilyn Nelson, standing with violinist Kristen Seto and pianist Stephen Seto, helped the National Society of Arts and Letters’ Florida East Coast Chapter hold a successful High Tea that brought together old and new members, and welcomed patr
The new pavilion will replace the existing pavilion at Atlantic Avenue and A1A.
Rendering courtesy Bob Currie
By Tim Pallesen
A new pavilion on the beach at Atlantic Avenue has the green light for Delray Beach to select a contractor and start
The Boca Raton Woman’s Club and the Rotary Club Downtown Boca Raton joined forces to honor doctors in the South Florida community and named Dr. Marc Taub (holding clock) the 2013 Doctor of Distinction at a special luncheon. More than 70 physicians we
By Cheryl Blackerby
Delray Beach and Boca Raton are likely to receive long-awaited money for damage to beaches by Hurricane Sandy, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The two cities’ beach projects were among 16 projects around the stat
Above: Photo of the Delray Ledge taken before the renourishment project.
Below: Photo taken after the project shows the water at the Delray Ledges obscured by silt.
Photos by Reef Rescue (top) and Chase Bilbery
By Cheryl Blackerby
The dredge is
The Briny Breezes Town Council will seek bids this month to provide police protection for the 488-mobile home town for the next three years or beyond.
For the past three years, the town has paid neighboring Ocean Ridge $185,000 annually for p
By Betty Wells
State auditors were scheduled to arrive in the offices of the Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency on April 30 to begin an audit for the Joint Legislative Auditing Committee.
The audit was requested by State Sen. Jeff C
By Tim O’Meilia
Manalapan town commissioners voted, by a 4-2 count, to apologize to Town Manager Linda Stumpf for one commissioner’s allegations of misuse of her car allowance.
An examination of town payroll records by the town’s outside
The ‘Commissioner Thug’ artwork was replaced in late April with a painting of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum (below) at Martin O’Boyle’s home in Gulf Stream’s Hidden Harbour neighborhood.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Tim O’Meilia
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By Mary Thurwachter
Property owners turned out en masse at the April 8 Town Council meeting to oppose a proposed sober house at 118 N. Oak Ave., around the corner from the Ocean Avenue shopping district.
Phyllis Small, who owns property on the
Abandoned triplex offered to the Lantana Historical Society.
Mary Thurwachter/The Coastal Star
By Mary Thurwachter
A town-owned triplex on Prospect Road could become the new home for the Lantana Historical Society.
The house at 111 Prosp
By Tim O’Meilia
The fate of Ocean Ridge’s five-store business district is back in the hands of town commissioners with the town’s planning and zoning board’s advice to hire a firm to recommend a plan for the next few decades.
The board urg
By Tim O’Meilia
Check your calendar, Gulf Stream residents, and move the start of that long-promised utilities project back another three or four months.
How about Labor Day?
The town will begin seeking bids on the $5.4 million project
