A crowd of well-wishers gathers to watch Ryan Butts release Cindy in the Atlantic Ocean. Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
Giving the turtle a name was easy. Giving her back to the sea took months.
On July 28, a loggerhead turtle
Before the meeting, more than 80 people gathered in front of City Hall to protest the proposed density of Atlantic Plaza II. Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Related story: Dec. 4 decision might, or might not, be last word
By Tim Pallesen
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At press time, Atlantic Plaza II was scheduled to come back to City Commission on Dec. 4.
The commission can either approve or deny the developer’s conditional use request to allow for building heights approaching 60 feet and a density of about 51
Marg Williams plans to donate part of the proceeds from her handmade necklaces (worn above) to benefit women’s heart health organizations. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
No, it’s not breast cancer.
In fact, heart disease is the l
By Thomas R. Collins
Plans to make Boynton Beach Boulevard a prettier — and, very possibly, narrower — street have entered the design phase, city redevelopment officials say.
Part of the beautification effort is to make the main thoroughfare,
By Tim Pallesen
Delray Beach is asking the state to regulate sober houses after the city failed in its own effort to prevent the Caron Foundation from opening two coastal houses for recovering addicts.
Delray Beach and Boca Raton will share th
By Cheryl Blackerby
Despite extensive damage from Hurricane Sandy, Delray Beach’s beach restoration project, part of a routine 10-year renourishment plan, is still on track for February.
The cost will be only a little more than the projected $
By Margie Plunkett
Delray Beach commissioners gave first approval of a rezoning that would allow a shopping center on the southeast corner of Linton Boulevard and South Federal Highway, despite an outcry from the waterfront neighborhood behind it.
By Margie Plunkett
A Parking Management Advisory Board meeting to collect public comment on extending metered-parking hours at the beach was cancelled after Delray Beach city commissioners noted it wasn’t the board’s position to make policy.
“W
By Margie Plunkett
The Ocean Ridge Police Department will continue on the beat, after commissioners defeated a proposal to provide law enforcement services through the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.
The decision — made in a 4-1 vote — met
80 concrete trucks arrived, mixed and poured on Nov. 3-4, as part of the construction project for the new Ocean Avenue Bridge in Lantana. The bridge is scheduled for completion March 2014, but may be ready as soon as November 2013. Tim Stepien/The C
By Mary Thurwachter
Taxpayers in Lantana will save about $1 million over the next nine years because the town is refinancing its water and sewer bonds.
At its Nov. 26 meeting, the Town Council agreed to refinance the bonds with TD Bank for a pr
By Tim O’Meilia
The beleaguered Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn, which has stirred South Palm Beach politics for five years, has been sold to a Delray Beach financier and investor in distressed properties.
The 58-unit, two-story motel on the ocean —
After 22 years, David Harden is stepping down as Delray Beach city manager. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Margie Plunkett
Twenty-two years ago, before Delray Beach’s vibrant downtown emerged, the city was suffering from a civic inferiority comp
Five candidates have been selected to interview for the position of city manager, which will become vacant in January when David Harden retires after 22 years.
The City Commission plans to bring the candidates in Dec. 6 and 7. Two alternates have
By Tim O’Meilia
Two more homes to be sliced from the old Spence estate — a Bermuda home with black shutters and a Colonial West Indies house with a charcoal tile roof — were approved unanimously by the Gulf Stream Town Commission Nov. 9, not that
Robb Barron in a healthy dune, standing in the midst of cocoplum, sea oats and sea lavender. Photos by Cheryl Blackerby/The Coastal Star
By Cheryl Blackerby
Robb Barron carefully tucked a sea oat seedling into a small hole in the sand, one of hund
Ocean Ridge resident Matt Gracey shows a rendering of his latest transformational idea, Art House of Delray. The community art center, which opened in September, benefits artists and art enthusiasts. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Delray Beach has a n
By Cheryl Blackerby
DELRAY BEACH — Elaine Prentice Hapgood found her mission in life more than a half-century ago when she attended an International Planned Parenthood conference in Pakistan. She witnessed firsthand the consequences of unbridled p
By Ron Hayes
GULF STREAM — John E. Searle Jr., a president of The St. Andrew’s Club from 1991 to ’93, died Oct. 30. He was 88 and had owned a villa at the club since 1973.
“He was very active until six months before his death,” said his daughter, K
