Grand Opening celebration: Style Bar Day Spa, Palm Beach – Dec. 13
Keira Glynn of Hypoluxo Island was one of dozens of patrons treated to a portrait during the grand opening of the Style Bar, which moved from the Hamptons and is now in the Palm Beach
Maculeuse St. Amie, left, thanks siblings Tori and Colin Wheat for their donation of Colin’s old bicycle, which will go to St. Amie’s grandson. Photo provided
By Emily J. Minor
It’s nice being a grandma, especially this time of year. And it’s esp
Laugh with the Library co-chairs Heidi Sargeant and Becky Walsh. Photo provided
By Lucy Lazarony
Just how funny is a Laugh with the Library charity event benefiting the Delray Beach Public Library?
One audience member banged his head on the tab
By Tim Pallesen
A citizens group has sued Delray Beach saying its density approval for Atlantic Plaza II violates the vision for Delray to always be “a village by the sea.”
Gulf Stream School parents, students, teachers and faculty members joined for an afternoon of sportsmanship and learning at the ‘Do the Right Thing’ parent-child golf outing. The friendly competition reinforced the school’s mission of empowering stud
The Spirit of Giving Network Holiday Gift Drive Collection Party took place at the home of Bob Sheets and Debbie Linstrom (above), where, in a single evening, hundreds of gifts poured in and more than $7,000 in cash was donated to support the annual
Florence Fuller Child Development Centers’ Wee Dream Ball raised a record-breaking $480,000, which will help ensure the 625 children at the Boca Raton facility have access to early-childhood education, programs and health screenings. Photo: Committee
By Tim Pallesen
A Trader Joe’s grocery store and eight restaurants might be too much to squeeze onto a 10-acre site near the Linton Boulevard Bridge, a city advisory panel says.
The developer of the proposed Delray Place project east of Federal Highway
Australian pines along A1A are part of Gulf Stream’s signature look. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Tim O’Meilia
The hammock of dense growth will remain along A1A in front of the old Spence property in Gulf Stream — noxious non-native plants incl
By Margie Plunkett
Thanks to anonymous donations, the Ocean Ridge Police Department is getting a new police car that had previously been cut from the budget.
The commission in December accepted the donation of $30,000 from the Ocean Ridge Support G
The Lantana Police Department will be getting two 2013 vehicles this year — a Dodge Charger pursuit car and a Chevy Tahoe 1500.
Total cost for the vehicles is $47,971 — $21,401 for the Dodge, $26,570 for the Tahoe. Another $36,702 will be spent for pa
The koi pond at Ocean Ridge Town Hall has aquatic plants so koi have hiding spots. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
Every day at around 3 p.m., receptionist Lisa Burns feeds the orange, black, white and cream koi darting abo
A detail of the window at Bethesda-by-the-Sea that depicts the biblical story of Jonah. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Mary Thurwachter
While not meant as a recruitment tool to lasso in the faithful, the Bethesda-by-the-Sea Church tour has drawn
Casa Alva, built in 1934 for a Vanderbilt heiress, has been both a private home and a social club. Photo provided
By Mary Thurwachter
Manalapan found its place on the social map with the construction of two grand homes for two great-grandchildren
Jayson Koss, known as ‘The Dude,’ founded Delivery Dudes
three years ago. The company has expanded across Palm Beach
County and into Broward. Libby Volgyes/The Coastal Star
By Libby Volgyes
On a recent Saturday night, Jayson Koss, 27, took to his
A walk along Manalapan’s beachfront is a dramatic illustration of the adage, “a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.”
Towering steel seawalls riddled with huge, rusted, Swiss cheese-like holes lay bowed seaward before eroded pits where
Dr. Gwen Flinchum interacts with Sydney, a 13-year-old black palm cockatoo.
Flinchum is owner/veterinarian at the All Bird Clinic of the Palm Beaches.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Arden Moore
Although the name of my column is called Paws Up fo
The razorbill, a seabird that usually travels no farther south than the Carolinas, was a common sight off the Boynton Inlet during the middle of December. Beach erosion and other disturbances brought on by Hurricane Sandy are thought to have prompted
Manalapan property owners are working together to fix their failing seawalls. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Tim O’Meilia
While oceanfront residents scramble for permits to rebuild their collapsed seawalls, the Manalapan Town Commission is con
By Tim O’Meilia
A proposed inlet-to-inlet approach to beach restoration and management will cost small coastal towns $4,000 to $19,000 a year with no promise that a beach protection project would be approved.
The pilot project proposed by s
