The construction site in Highland Beach.
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By Cheryl Blackerby
In March 2003, workers were digging a trench for underground utility pipes at the Sea Frolic hotel in Highland Beach when they came across something
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Robyn Nassetta performs to Ease on Down the Road from The Wiz with her partner, Ivan Rivera. She was honored as Best Female Dancer.
Dorothy MacDiarmid and partner Eric Dehant dance to Money, Money, Money from Mamma Mia.
Gary Colli
Marilynn Wick and her daughter, Kim, are preparing to open The Wick Theatre & Costume Museum
in the former Caldwell Theatre building on Federal Highway in Boca Raton.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Dale King
When the former Caldwell Theatre c
By Tim Pallesen
Nights will be quieter in east Delray than in the downtown under the city’s new noise ordinance approved by commissioners on Aug. 20.
The new law allows outdoor music until midnight on weeknights and until 1 a.m. on weekends
By Tim O’Meilia
South Palm Beach Town Council members will hold the tax rate to the current level and give non-union employees their first pay increase in years if they approve a $1.7 million budget proposed by Town Manager Rex Taylor.The council will
South Palm Beach and Manalapan police officers were awarded commendations in August from their town lawmakers.Lt. Nick Alvaro of South Palm Beach was honored for guiding the police force to third place in a statewide Law Enforcement Challenge, earn
By Tim O’Meilia
Twice before, Briny Breezes Mayor Roger Bennett has threatened to quit because of ill health, but he always returned. Now he really means it.Bennett, who has guided the town of mobile homes with a quick quip and a gentle hand for seven
By Cheryl Blackerby
Boca Raton Beach and Park District commissioners are willing to pay a greater share of the city’s beach renourishment bills. But before they start writing bigger checks, they’d like to start playing a bigger role in shaping t
By Tim O’Meilia
Elected officials in Ocean Ridge and Manalapan questioned the legal fees they are paying in a dispute over who pays for the Palm Beach County Inspector General’s Office.
While Ocean Ridge is considering reducing the fees or bailing out
Alessandra Medri, the marine animal stranding coordinator for Palm Beach County’s Environmental Resources Management Department, checks on a pygmy sperm whale found near shore in Delray Beach on Aug. 28. Passersby and Delray Beach lifeguards stayed
By Tim Pallesen
Get out the green confetti but not the green beer — the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade is a go for next year without alcohol.
Delray Beach commissioners have approved the March 15 event with a $31,273 cost for the promoter.
Fannie James served as post mistress of the first post office in Lake Worth. Courtesy of Historical Society of Palm Beach County
By Ron Hayes
On June 15, 1889, a former slave named Fannie James filled out a lengthy form, asking the First Assistant
By Tim O’Meilia
The choice for the Gulf Stream Town Commission was time or money.
Award the long-awaited contract to put overhead utilities underground now or wait two months to make the award and perhaps save $165,000.
They chose time.
By Steve Plunkett
Ground hasn’t been broken yet, but the long-awaited Interstate 95 interchange on Spanish River Boulevard already has attracted development that someday will generate 13,300 trips per day.
Boca Raton City Council members ap
Boca Raton will defer to new Mizner Park tenant Lord & Taylor and to Black Friday shoppers and light its holiday tree the day before Thanksgiving instead of the day after.
In June, City Council members, sitting as the Community Redevelopment
By Tim O’Meilia
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
Rendering provided by Singer Architects of Fort Lauderdale
By Jane Smith
The Palm Beach County Park Airport (Lantana airport) will get a new operator in April, the first change in 60 years. And with that new operator will come $5.5 million in imp
By Steve Plunkett
Forgive the city manager if he sounds almost giddy over Boca Raton’s finances.
“If you live in neighboring Delray — we hear lots of great things and Delray’s a great place — but you’ll pay twice as much in city property taxe
A Lantana woman died Sept. 1 after being ejected from a boat in the Intracoastal Waterway off Point Manalapan.
Karen Roberts, 42, was a passenger with two other people on a 19-foot Dusky center console when the boat took a sudden right-hand turn in ro
Stella Page, 7, poses for photographer Oona Cruger at Boca Raton Resort & Club
on Aug. 23. Stella is a Boca resident and a student at St. Andrew’s School.
French designer Laure Nell used the resort as background location for the shooting
of her Spr
