To strengthen cultural and culinary bonds, Delray Beach Mayor Cary Glickstein joined Miyazo, Japan Mayor Shoji Inoue
and his Sister Cities delegation for a July lunch at Caffe Luna Rosa in Delray Beach.
Joining them were Karen Granger, president and
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By Steve Pike
If you’re looking for some great reading, try Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson, which tells the story of scientist Isaac Cline, one of the country’s first meteorologists, and the events leading up to the September 1900 hurricane that k
Ocean Ridge resident Joyce Bruck (shown here with her Chihuahua Chi Chi)
travels extensively, using two Canon cameras to capture images
of the humans, the wildlife and the scenery she encounters.
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Joyce Bruck of Ocean
By Emily J. Minor
MANALAPAN — Around town, they called her “Manalapan’s mom” — mostly because she was friendly and kind and downright adorable. “The past four or five years, she gave up the snowbird thing and just lived down here permanently,” s
About 20 volunteers (including Gael Silverblatt, below, at left) took part
in a recent planting of mangrove seedlings just north of the Lake Worth Bridge.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
A fisherman on a yellow and oran
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach town commissioners last month gave tentative approval to a proposed revamping and streamlining of the way emergency calls are received and emergency vehicles dispatched.
If commissioners give formal approval t
Boca Raton resident John Granath walks toward the 8th tee
at Red Reef Executive Golf Course.
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Related Story: Golf courses struggle as the sports' popularity wanes
By Cheryl Blackerby
This is a story of two public go
By Steve Plunkett
The Lynn University student who played President Obama for a pre-debate rehearsal last fall, then traveled to the inauguration, is now a candidate for City Council.
“I‘ve always loved politics,” senior Eric Gooden (left)
By Steve Plunkett
One of the first things the Boca Raton City Council may consider when it returns from its summer break Aug. 26 is whether to offer health insurance and other benefits to same-sex partners of city employees.
Council member
By Steve Plunkett
Boca Raton property taxes will go up no more than 3.8 percent for the coming year and might come down.
City Council members unanimously approved City Manager Leif Ahnell’s recommendation July 9 to set the maximum rate at $3.
Boca Raton Beach and Park District commissioners unanimously approved a rollback tax rate for the upcoming year of .9676 per $1,000 of taxable property value, down from last year’s .9986.
This rate will bring a slight decrease in the bill fo
By Steve Plunkett
The city has bailed out the Boca Raton Children’s Museum with an emergency $127,000 grant.
The museum appealed to the city for help when it realized it was running out of money, Assistant City Manager Mike Woika said.
In the July edition, one of the photographs was incorrectly identified in a story about Boca Raton Police Chief Dan Alexander and Capt. Josh Mindick being honored for their work in ejecting a squatter from a $2.5 million Golden Harbour mansion. Bot
By Dan Moffett
Hardly anyone in Delray Beach thought the first test of the city’s new noise ordinance would come in the form of a Zen riddle.
But city commissioners found themselves trying to unravel a decibel mystery that seemed every bit a
Phoebe Wiener attended Girls Nation.
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Phoebe Wiener of Highland Beach took two unforgettable trips, and chances are both will have a major influence on her future career path.
Wiener, 16, who will be a senior at Atlantic High
Rotary Club Downtown Boca Raton installed new officers to lead the organization
into its second year of community service. ‘This has been an extraordinary inaugural year
for this club,’ President Alan Kaye said. The inaugural year saw the club recei
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The Plate: Oceans Crispy Calamari
The Place: Oceans 234, 234 N. Ocean Blvd., Deerfield Beach; (954) 428-2539 or oceans234.com
The Price: $12.99
The Skinny: Crispy calamari with a view.
That’s what sums up this little snack
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach town commissioners, after their first look at a proposed $11.7 million budget, voted to keep the proposed tax rate for the coming fiscal year at $3.95 per $1,000 of assessed value, the same as the current tax rate.
By Mary Thurwachter
To make sure the new Ocean Avenue bridge is operational by the end of November, the construction company charged with the job sought — and received — permission to work evenings until 11 p.m. through Oct. 31.
GLF Constru
By Steve Pike
When most people think about golf, they think about what they see on TV — primarily Tiger Woods and the PGA Tour. But neither Woods nor the Tour lives in the real world of the golf industry — an industry that includes struggling eq
