When members of the library’s Quilting Bee heard the facility’s 100th birthday was coming up in April, they decided to create a beautiful textile to commemorate the milestone. The quilt is finished and on display, featuring old photos of the women wh
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Members of the Delray Beach Art Club exhibited their works during the third annual Delray Beach Art Show on Feb. 8.
Photo: Painter Barbara Montgomery O’Connell and guest Kate McCarthy.
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The Coastal Star
All four public meetings in March to discuss a new comprehensive plan for Briny Breezes will be held in the town’s community center at 5000 N. Ocean Blvd. at 4 p.m.
The town’s planning and zoning board will hold a public hearing March 7 and a regula
Mike Stein read a letter to the commission in praise of the leadership of library director Mari Suarez.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Hoping to protect the town’s library from what they say is overzealous oversight, dozens of
An attorney for the Manalapan resident who claims the town’s police engage in racial profiling has demanded that the police chief and one of his officers be fired as corrective action.
In a Feb. 21 letter to the mayor, West Palm Beach attorney Jack
The Rev. Craig Burlington and the Rev. Nancy McCarthy baptize
Deven Martin Nayak at St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church.
It was the last baptism the retiring McCarthy performed there.
Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
The large sanctuary with staine
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach is a neighborly town — so neighborly in fact, that sometimes the welcome is even extended to people being chased by police.
When two of 11 suspected illegal immigrants tried to escape after bailing out of a van on A1A
While vacationing from Syracuse, N.Y., on Feb. 21, Cole VanSlyke found this expired cushion sea star on the beach in Briny Breezes. These spectacular sea stars are often found on the sandy bottom of turtle grass beds. Photo by Joanne Friedman
Black borders and signposts would unify the look of town signs.
By Tim O’Meilia
Add street signs to the list of items Gulf Stream town officials are planning to spruce up the appearance of in their seaside community.
The town already has a $5.4 mi
By Tim O’Meilia
Google “Town of Gulf Stream” and there it is, down at the bottom of the first page of search results: www.gulf-stream.org.
The town with the “shh, don’t tell anyone we’re here” attitude has joined the 20th century, if not the 21st.
A waterspout came ashore over Briny Breezes on Feb. 9, tearing awnings off of three mobile homes. There were no reports of injuries.
LEFT: Residents gather on RuthMary Drive to share stories. One told of how she hid under the bleachers at the s
A jogger passes a pile of steel that has been removed to make
way for new seawalls in Manalapan. Fifteen seawalls
are currently being replaced in the wake
of Hurricane Sandy. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Tim O’Meilia
Manalapan town commissioner
By Tim O’Meilia
South Palm Beach, Manalapan, Lantana and three other towns will cash tidy checks in the next few months for overpaying for sewage treatment provided by the city of Lake Worth for 16 years.
It’s a stunning reversal for Lake Worth, whi
Wendy Friswell is director of the Twin Palms Center for the Disabled
in Boca Raton. She also volunteers for the Boca Boating and Beach Bash.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Chris Felker
Wendy Friswell, director of the Twin Palms Center for the Di
Pam O’Brien with some of her miniature creations. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Jane Smith
Most women would toss out the top of an empty lipstick tube.
Not Pam O’Brien. She can imagine it as an umbrella stand or other item for her dollhouse m
ABOVE: Shari Dunham (center) and Laura Murray of Delray Beach (right) sample Lantana resident Joe Farrell’s ‘Flying Pig’s Revenge’ chili during the 16th Annual Chili Cook-off on Feb. 16 at Old School Square Park in Delray Beach.
RIGHT: Delray resi
By Cheryl Blackerby
Have you ever driven by a sports complex at night and noticed the lights burning bright, though no one was playing or working on the fields?
Or seen empty downtown buildings lit up after working hours, or streetlights and outdo
Casto Benson
DELRAY BEACH — Nancy Casto Benson, 88, a native of Columbus and resident of Delray Beach, died at home Feb. 12, with her loving family and kitties at her side.
Mrs. Benson was born Jan. 21, 1925, in Columbus, Ohio, to Don Monroe Sr. a
By Cheryl Blackerby
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration set a target of 2015 to start giving storm surge watches and warnings along with hurricane tracks.
Forecasts by the National Weather Service
Roup
Briny Breezes — Joan A. Ruopp of Briny Breezes and Bricktown, N.J., died Feb. 2. She was 80.
Born on Jan. 3, 1933, to Fred and Hazel Anderson in Elizabeth, N.J., she was a great source of comfort to many through her crisp sense of humor and lo
