Melissa Adams shows purses to Claire and Tony Parasiliti
at Dzines Consignment in Boca Raton.
By Paula Detwiller
Got stuff? Sure you do. Stuff your kids left behind. Stuff your parents left behind. Stuff you bought but don’t use anymore.
Whether we
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Gulf Stream School Underwriting Party will be held April 21 at the Delray Beach Marriott. The event is open to the community, supporters and GSS families. Experience the bohemian spectacular that was Old Havana — cocktails, dinner and dancing, blackj
By Emily Minor
BOCA RATON — Nancy Bayzar Toumayan, who moved to Florida in 1998 and spent many years as a home health-care nurse, caring and cooking for the lonely and ailing elderly, died March 21 of complications from pulmonary fibrosis.
“She ha
The Historical Society of Palm Beach County and the Delray Beach Historical Society host a collaborative event as part of a Public Program Initiative for local families. Held from 11:00 am-2:00 pm, April 29 at Sandoway House Nature Center, 142 S. Oce
J. Ernest Brophy
By Ron Hayes
BOCA RATON — J. Ernest Brophy, a winter resident of Boca Raton for 35 years, died March 19. He was 87 and had battled lung cancer and heart disease.
Mr. Brophy died peacefully at his Cocoanut Road home, surrounded by f
Injections of her own stem cells helped Mary Ellen Cook
of Delray Beach (right) avoid knee-replacement surgery.
Cook plays tennis twice a week with other senior players
like Joyce Joyner of Delray Beach, who have also found pain
relief through stem-
Highland Beach resident George Banet (left) with historian
Serge Klarsfield in the film La France Divisée. Photo provided
The film La France Divisée will be the center of Highland Beach Library’s Yom Hashoah commemoration.
Yom Hashoah, Holocaust M
By Arden Moore
Ah, April. The month typically signifies the departure of snowbirds and the arrival of persistent hot weather, where temperatures registering in the mid-80s and up are not uncommon in Palm Beach County.
OK, so that statement is not wo
An egg hunt and butterfly release are on tap for April 7
at the Chapel of St. Andrew in Boca Raton. Photo provided
By Tim Pallesen
Two of the most creative ways to celebrate the secular side of Easter for the past decade are the Easter Bonnet Pet P
Lillian Rose Palladino Mericantante
By Ron Hayes
BOCA RATON — When Father John Mericantante, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Pahokee, was told that the $1 million he’d raised was not enough to start construction on a new church, his mothe
Jazz band Four80East will play the Funky Biscuit on April 21.
By Steve Pike
Jazz and baseball typically aren’t thought of in the same sentence — except that one could argue each is an acquired taste — but here’s an analogy: In his classic book Sho
Art Show Opening Night of Women in the Visual Arts
Highland Beach Library
Ann Schwartz, (from left) exhibitions committee chair,
Phyllis Annunziato, president of WITVA, and Connie
Lefkowitz at the art show opening on March 9 at the
Highland Beach
By Tim O’Meilia
Five years ago, a developer figured the homey oceanfront mobile home park of Briny Breezes was worth half a billion dollars if it were decorated with high rise condominium towers, a pricey hotel and several hundred time-shares.
Correction
Because of a reporting error, The Coastal Star incorrectly reported that Greenacres has a contract with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office for police services. The error appeared in the April edition in a story about a Sheriff’s Office
The most popular Florida building may be in our neighborhood.
Results of an online poll of the state’s top 100 architectural buildings in the “Florida Architecture: 100 Years, 100 Places” competition will be reveal
By Tim O’Meilia
Five years after a half-billion dollar sale collapsed, Briny Breezes’ 43 acres of ocean-to-Intracoastal mobile homes is on a land developer’s shopping list.
An unnamed development firm has pitched the idea of erecting twin 20-story t
Croquet players take to the courts at St. Andrews Club, near Gulf Stream. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Photos: St. Andrew's Club - Yesterday and Today
By Mary Thurwachter
You could easily drive down A1A just south of Briny Breezes and not have ink
The 1950 Lantana Bridge will be replaced with a taller, wider span. The first bridge on the site was built in 1911. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Inconvenience ahead; might as well throw a party | Towns join forces to patrol Hypoluxo Island | Optimis
Neighbors of the home Caron purchased stand in front of portraits of former Delray Beach mayors and wear white to protest the rehabilitation center’s request to turn its property into a sober house during a meeting at City Hall. Jerry Lower/The Coast
Since 1909, Florida’s residents have had the right to see documents created by public agencies and since 1967 a basic right of access to most meetings of governing bodies of state and local governments.
This access constitutes the “Sunshine
