By Tim O’Meilia
A divided Ocean Ridge Town Commission approved a $5.6 million town budget that will require dipping into town reserves for more than a third of a million dollars but keep the tax rate at the current level.
Commissioners split over
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A Coastal Star Special Report:
Hurricane shows just how fragile our shores are
Sand is finite: A lexicon of sand
Dunes vs. Sea walls: Natural vegetative dunes may be best defense | Stopping sand loss is a complicated business
Who is taking action?:
By Tim Pallesen
Delray Beach commissioners approved a slightly lower property tax rate for this year.
The rate of $7.16 per $1,000 of assessed value for the city’s $98 million operating budget, is 3 cents below last year’s rate of $7.19. An
By Tim O’Meilia
Despite their unhappiness with spending far more than other coastal cities in a two-year dispute over funding the Palm Beach County Inspector General’s Office, Ocean Ridge commissioners decided to retain their town attorney to hand
By Tim O’Meilia
The long-necked, long-lived streetlights Gulf Stream had hoped to install along State Road A1A came at an equally long-lasting price — $315,000.
The 35 cobra-headed black poles would have been fitted with energy saving LED ligh
Saltwater Brewery founders Bo Eaton, Peter Agardy, brewmaster Bill Taylor, Chris Gove and Dustin Jeffers stand on the second floor of the barn-like, 1952-vintage building, formerly the site of the Rustic Rooster furniture store in Delray Beach. Tim S
By Betty Wells
A state senator says he will find a way to get a second, clearer, attorney general’s opinion about whether it’s legal for community redevelopment agencies to fund projects for nonprofit organizations.
Sen. Joseph Abruzzo, D-Welli
By Tim O’Meilia
South Palm Beach Town Clerk Janet Whipple didn’t want the blubbering or the farewell hugging. She didn’t want her resignation letter distributed before the Sept. 24 Town Council meeting. But Town Manager Rex Taylor insisted the
By Mary Thurwachter
There’s a Lantana bridge opening party on the horizon, but you can’t circle the date on your calendar just yet. The reason? No one knows exactly when the new Ocean Avenue Bridge will open.
Lantana officials would like to set
By Tim O’Meilia
Boynton Beach may be interested in buying Manalapan’s water system even as the town prepares to replace more than three miles of aging distribution lines that will cost more than $3 million.
Town commissioners unanimously appro
In a rendering of the west side of A1A, a combination of building heights and uses could provide a unifying effect to the community. Drawing by Digby Bridges
By Tim O’Meilia
Someday, the main street of Briny Breezes could be dotted with winding vi
By Mary Thurwachter
In its 16 years on Lantana’s beach, the Dune Deck Café has earned a reputation as a breakfast, lunch and brunch spot with good food and marketable ocean views. If owner John Caruso has his druthers, the swimsuit-friendly restau
Linda Gunn Paton takes a break from helping stuff envelopes at the Junior League of Boca Raton’s offices. Volunteering, she says, makes her feel closer to her community. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Linda Gunn Paton had just gotten married to a
A historic marker provided by Robert Hudson Neff and his family will document
the opening of the Boynton Inlet, seen here after sand had temporarily filled it in.
Photo provided
BELOW: Harvey Oyer III (left) confers with Robert Hudson Neff during a
Museum educator Cheryl Lane interacts with Giovanna Fusca, 5,
Claudia Chow and Isabella Fusca, 4 as they create cards
during the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum & Learning Center centennial celebration.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
When Sandy McGre
St. Paul’s Day School in Delray Beach marks its 50th anniversary on Oct. 27.
During that half-century, it has had only two directors.
Photo contributed
Staff Report
Today, they are engineers, lawyers and professionals.
Back in their youth, d
GULF STREAM — Carl E. Touhey, a lifelong Albany, N.Y., businessman and a winter resident of Gulf Stream, passed away Aug. 25 at the remarkable age of 95.
He was a graduate of the Albany Academy and Princeton University (class of ’39).
He ran a st
By Jane Smith
GULF STREAM — Rose Rita Bianchini, who moved to Broward County with her husband in 1971, died at her home on Sept. 23, surrounded by her family. She was 86.
In 1991, the Bianchinis moved to Gulf Stream. Every Sunday her two sons and t
By Ron Hayes
DELRAY BEACH — On the wall of the Prudential insurance office where he worked, John Scalzo Jr. kept a calendar adorned with a lush photo of the Bahia Honda bridge in the Florida Keys.
Deep in a snowy New Jersey winter, he would pon
By Emily J. Minor
DELRAY BEACH — John C. Lake, 73, who moved to South Palm Beach in 1991 to be closer to the two daughters he so loved, died Sept. 3. He had been battling Parkinson’s disease for about 15 years.
Born May 18, 1940, in Orange, N.J., M
