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
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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
Whe
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
By Tim O’Meilia
Crosswalks planned for State Road A1A and Woolbright Road in Ocean Ridge are being challenged by nearby residents.
The town commission scheduled a special meeting May 2 to discuss the complaints so the state Department of T
By Ron Hayes
MANALAPAN — To the fellow Hoosiers who knew his auto dealership, he was “Big Dan Young, Chevy dealin’ man.”
To the local institutions that benefitted from his generosity, Dan Young was known for his big heart.
Mr. Young was killed M
By Ron Hayes
GULF STREAM — Robert L. Becker Jr., a winter resident of The St. Andrew’s Club for several years, died peacefully on April 15. He was 87.
A lawyer who specialized in securities and transactional law, Mr. Becker joined the Pittsburg
Dressed un-legislatively in a T-shirt, shorts and boat shoes, Lantana Mayor David Stewart made an impromptu visit to the April 23 meeting of the South Palm Beach Town Council.
“I just wanted to thank your city,” Stewart told council members. “
Built in 1924 and remodeled in 1988 and 2001, this Mizner-style beach house was one of the first homes built in Ocean Ridge.
The dining room is centrally located for access from both residential wings of this 2,700-square-foot home.
A lap pool is ne
Judy Dempsey, owner of Art Explosion of South Florida, decorated her Boynton Beach home with underwater scenes, such as this one on a living room wall.
Dempsey’s works can be found throughout the city, including the Medication Station Pharmacy on Wo
By Betty Wells
The Arts Garage, Delray’s Beach’s small, popular music and theater venue, needs to raise $2.5 million in 30 months to pay the city for its home — 10,000 square feet of retail space at the Old School Square parking garage. The execut
Christina Benisch uses elements found in her Ocean Ridge garden for her award-winning flower arrangements.
This year she represented the Grass River Garden Club at the Society of the Four Arts, and in 2010,
she represented the Ocean Ridge Garden Club
The Plate: Mediterranean Hummus Plate
The Place: Jellies Bar at The Atlantic Grille at The Seagate Hotel and Spa, 1000 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach; 665-4900 or theatlanticgrille.com
The Price: $9
The Skinny: Sometimes you want something light, and n
Impact 100 members, including Laura Stoltz (raised fist), react as the winners of the $100,000 grants are announced at the Delray Beach Marriott. Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Christine Davis
Impact 100 members neither waste time no
By Thom Smith
Jeff Bolton was one of the good guys. Great accountant. Tremendous sports fan. Loving husband. Unwavering father. When he learned six years ago that his son Jason had acute myeloid leukemia, a nasty bone marrow disease that attacks mayb
Jazz fusion band Oriente will perform at the Arts Garage on May 11. Photo provided
By Greg Stepanich
Although the arts center she has run for two years was in danger last month of going the way of the Florida Philharmonic or Ballet Florida, Alyo
By Ron Hayes
BOCA RATON — Her family called her “Mary Detail,” and during the final years of her life, the Boca Raton Historical Society benefited from Mary McKenzie’s love of detailed work.
A resident for 30 years, Mrs. McKenzie died April 1
By Rich Pollack
A Highland Beach spending issue that appeared to have been resolved last fall has resurfaced, this time at the urging of a new commissioner who believes residents want stronger veto power over purchases of big-ticket items.
At a
