Registration for the East Boynton Beach Little League’s Spring 2013 Season will be accepted from Wednesday, January 2 through January 28 at Little League Park (300 W. Woolbright Road). Please visit www.eastboyntonll.com for specific dates and times a
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These large, cotton beach bags are available ONLY in our offices at 5011 N. Ocean Blvd. in Ocean Ridge (next to Colby's Barbershop.)
Our hours are hit-and-miss, but your best bet to catch us is from 10 am-6 pm, Monday-Friday.
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By Tim Pallesen
Delray Beach commissioners narrowly gave Atlantic Plaza II developers the OK to build 40 units per acre on Tuesday night.
The developer’s density reduction was necessary to win a 3-2 commission vote. Mayor Woodie McDuffie joine
Related photos/story: Aging seawalls no match for Sandy’s overtopping waters | Graphic: How the seawalls failed
By Tim O’Meilia
Medical supply entrepreneur David Lumia and his wife, Margaret, were in their Manalapan carriage house on the west
LEFT: Homeowners, property managers and state coastal officials toured a few properties, including the home of New Age musician Yanni, that had extensive damage.
RIGHT: DEP official Tony McNeal examines portions of the failed seaw
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
