Ocean Ridge town commissioners continued to wrestle with how to pay for six “wish list” items that would cost $167,000 in next year’s budget.
Making all the wishes come true would mean dipping further into town reserves – up to $337,0
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Ocean Ridge town commissioners continued to wrestle with how to pay for six “wish list” items that would cost $167,000 in next year’s budget.
Making all the wishes come true would mean dipping further into town reserves – up to $337,0
When everyone was celebrating the 4th of July, Norman was sitting in a cage waiting for his time to expire the next morning. I received a called on my cellphone from the Animal Control telling me his story. "The family didn't want him, he kept bumpin
Greg Rice and his wife, Lori Miller, take a break during activities at Lake Worth’s July Fourth celebration.
Photo by Annamarie Hunt
Nice early birthday present for Boca-born Ariana Grande. Two weeks before she turned 20, her new song The Way, w
By Dan Moffett
A night at the movies is getting to be a tough ticket in Delray Beach as the local movie houses go through some major changes.
Last spring, the operators of the Plaza at Delray mall on the corner of Federal Highway and Linton
By Dan Moffett
Outgunned and outspent in the courts, six Delray Beach residents dropped their lawsuit against the developer of the Atlantic Crossing project, saying the fight had become too much.
“This was a monetary Goliath,” said Benita G
By Tim Pallesen
Delray Beach taxpayers are facing a $93 million debt to pay the pension benefits of the city’s police officers and firefighters.
The debt has grown 276 percent since it was $33.6 million in 2007, forcing city commissioners t
By Mary Thurwachter
With property values beginning to rebound — up 1.6 percent over last year — Lantana will have a little more money to work with next year. Taxable property has increased from $678 million to $689 million.
In July after it
By Mary Thurwachter
A plan to convert two town-owned lots into a waterfront park and parking lot got the green light from the Lantana Town Council in June.
But several neighbors to the side-by-side lots, at 106 and 122 N. Lake Drive on the
By Tim O’Meilia
Police, fire and emergency services will cost more. But taxable property in Briny Breezes is worth less. And the town’s tax rate is already maxed out. So the Briny Breezes Town Council will ask the corporation that owns the town
By Paula DetwillerWhen LaDeshia Brooks attended fifth grade at Galaxy Elementary School in 1989, the school didn’t seem old to her.
“I just remember my classroom was in a portable,” she says.
But by the time Brooks grew up, earned an elementary educati
By Tim O’Meilia
After months of discussing setting standards for seawalls, Manalapan town commissioners abruptly decided July 23 to scrap the idea.
“I’ve been getting a lot of pushback from residents on the seawall situation,” said Mayor Da
By Tim O’Meilia
“David’s Rules of Order” — Manalapan Mayor David Cheifetz’s five informal suggestions for civility and decorum during town commission meetings — lasted four months.
Now commissioners and residents have three pages of “public
By Tim O’Meilia
Manalapan town commissioners upheld Town Manager Linda Stumpf’s recommendation of a 3 percent salary increase for general employees, two part-time weekend police officers to patrol the beach and a six-car police fleet.
By a
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 i
Congratulations are in order. The Florida Press Association has awarded Coastal Star staffers with eight awards in its 2012 Weekly Newspaper Contest. We consider this quite an honor since we are the only monthly newspaper in the competition.
The h
By Tim O’Meilia
Local officials are hoping to shave months off a two-year environmental impact study that could lead to beach restoration in South Palm Beach, Lantana, Lake Worth and southern Palm Beach.
The $560,000 study is required to ge
This month, we are happy to expand the range of coverage in The Coastal Star with a new feature, Business Spotlight, which highlights the news and announcements of local businesses.
Christine Davis, a veteran real estate and business writer, will anc
South Palm Beach nonunion employees would get a $1,500 bonus and perhaps a cost-of-living increase under a $1.7 million budget proposed by Town Manager Rex Taylor.
In a budget message, Taylor asked council members to consider cost-of-living
Marie Speed takes a moment from an hourlong practice session to pose with her dance coach and partner James Brann.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
Oh, the things a good woman will do for a good cause.
For five years, Marie Speed maint
The new Galaxy Elementary School in Boynton Beach will be the greenest school campus in the state when it opens this month. At its heart is a two-story Wonderment Center, a gathering and learning spot.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Former Ga
