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By Tim Pallesen

    The lights on First Presbyterian’s steeple are among those that must be dimmed, shielded or shut off if Delray Beach adopts the county’s sea turtle protection law.

    Oceanfront businesses and residences also would get darker so

SOURCE: Delray Beach Police.

Map by Bonnie Lallky-Seibert/The Coastal Star

By Jane Smith

    During the past three years, traffic accidents along a stretch of East Atlantic Avenue have increased, according to a Coastal Star analysis of city and cou

By Dan Moffett

    Joan Orthwein spent the last two years in the crosshairs of Gulf Stream’s legal battles, serving as the town’s mayor during the stormiest period in its history.
    At the Town Commission’s April 11 meeting, she told a chamber cro

    Twelve years ago, SAFE (Safety As Floridians Expect) led a successful effort in persuading FDOT to build bike lanes and fill in sidewalk gaps in Delray Beach. 

    Since then, pedestrian and bike traffic have increased geometrically along SR A1A

Bernard Finkelstein was named president and chairman at Florence Fuller Child Development Center.

Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

By Ron Hayes

    For 17 years, Bernard Finkelstein worked in Cleveland, Ohio, and relaxed in Highland Beach.

    And then,

On April 28, signs remained posted and Manalapan police were warning people

to stay off the beach north of the Boynton Inlet.

Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

    For four days in April, the golden sand to the north of the Boynton Inlet was off limits

Editor's Note: Confusion about beach access abounds

By Dan Moffett

    Ocean Ridge residents will get their chance to weigh in on a number of contentious public beach access issues at a much-anticipated workshop scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. on May 6

Anastasia Neff, with an injured pelican she managed to save, makes it her goal to rescue and document pelicans.

Photo provided

By Cheryl Blackerby

    An osprey with a fish in its beak flew overhead, a blue heron perched at the end of a pier and su

By Cheryl Blackerby

    Palm Beach County joined Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties in 2009 to present the first Southeast Florida Regional Climate Leadership Summit. Elected officials from all four counties came together to discuss challenges an

By Ron Hayes
 
    At 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 26, a 90-year-old real estate agent named Woody Gorbach took off from Palm Beach International Airport aboard a US Airways jet, bound for Washington, D.C.
    At 8:20 that night, he returned.
    In bet

By Mary Thurwachter

    A proposal to redevelop the retreat property owned by the Catholic Cenacle Sisters into a high-end rental community took a step forward on April 23 when the Lantana Planning Commission gave its blessing to a needed zoning chang

By Mary Thurwachter
    
   Rather than borrowing money from a bank, the town of Lantana will finance the extension of natural gas lines to Hypoluxo Island using money from its general fund.
    In March, the Town Council directed Town Manager Deborah M

AmeriCorps members Michael Owen, 27, and roommate Cathy Hentschel, 23,

relax with their dogs in their pet-freindly Las Ventanas third floor loft apartment.

Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

AmeriCorps member Courtney Cambra works on spelling

By Dan Moffett

    Briny Breezes Town Council members are trying to figure out how to redefine the deputy clerk’s position so they can offer residents more access to Town Hall services.
    The issue comes down to whether Deputy Town Clerk Lesa Shoeman

ABOVE: A conceptual rendering of the $1.6 million Harbor Master project that is under construction near the fuel dock at Boynton Harbor Marina. Rendering courtesy A.W. Architects.
BELOW: Construction is underway at the Harbor Master building near the

A bulldozer levels the sand escarpment in Ocean Ridge just south of Boynton Beach Oceanfront Park while beachgoers and sea shell collectors enjoy the beach. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

By Cheryl Blackerby

    In a surprise move by the contractor, dr

Gloria Adams has worked at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts at Old School Square for 25  years, 23 of them as director of the Cornell Museum of Art. Libby Volgyes/The Coastal Star

By Lucy Lazarony

    For 25 years, artist Gloria Adams has brought

Donna Schneier’s collection forms the show ‘Unique by Design’ at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

    Envelopes get pushed when art dealer Donna Schneier is involved.
    The Manalapan resident’s latest coup is an envi

The $37 million Ocean Avenue Bridge, opened in November, features a designated fishing platform for fishermen and cast netters.  Willie Howard/The Coastal Star

By Willie Howard

    Palm Beach County has posted four “cast netting prohibited” signs