Delray Beach city commissioners have given their blessing to plans that will split the historic oceanfront property that was the 1930s home of famed cartoonist Fontaine Fox.
City commissioners voted in February to advance developer Frank McKinney’s p
Candidates for Delray Beach mayor and commissioner are scheduled to discuss issues important to Delray Beach and how they relate to the city’s commitment to environmental responsiblity at a forum scheduled for March 4 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church a
Comedian Tom Cotter (right), the first comedian to be a finalist in America’s Got Talent, was the featured entertainer at the seventh annual Laugh With The Library. Five hundred people attended the sold-out event, which raised more than $72,000 t
The fourth annual Boca Raton Fine Art Show presented $1,500 in awards to seven professional artists based on criteria including technique, execution, originality and booth appearance. Delray Beach resident Andrew Swan (above) won a $100 Award of Exce
Election Results
Question: Yes - 52, No - 14
By Tim O’Meilia
There’s a revolution on the Manalapan Town Commission.
The mayor and three commissioners are out. Three new commissioners and a familiar face as mayor are in. All without a shot being fire
Election Results
Question One: Yes - 5,307, No - 460
Question Two: Yes - 3,784, No - 1,994
Question Three: Yes - 3,344, No - 2,385
Question Four: Yes - 4,264, No - 1,459
Question Five: Yes - 3,650, No - 2,058
Question Six: Yes - 3,388, No - 2,199
De
Municipal elections will be held in a number of towns and cities in Palm Beach County on March 12. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Town or city clerks can provide answers to any election-related questions.
Briny Breezes
There is no electio
Election Results: Cary Glickstein - 3,180 | Tom Carney - 2,926
On Nov. 12, voters will elect a mayor and one commissioner for two-year terms. Commissioner Adam Frankel was automatically re-elected when his opponent dropped out of the race.
Tom Carney
Election Results: Shelley Petrolia - 3,324| Kurt Lehmann - 1,570 | Alexander Christopher - 1,049
Kurt Lehmann
Personal: 39,: Real estate broker, owns Lehmann Realty Inc.
Political experience: No elective office. Serves on city and community boards.
By Margie Plunkett
Ocean Ridge has started investigating the costs and concepts of creating a commercial zone at the town’s south end with an eye toward making recommendations to the Planning and Zoning Commission.
Commissioners agreed that Town Man
By Tim O’Meilia and
Mary Thurwachter
The town of Lantana has agreed to pay the cost of working around water and sewer lines discovered on the east side of the Intracoastal Waterway where the East Ocean Avenue bridge is being rebuilt.
The discussion
Love was in the air at a black-tie affair honoring Frances Bourque, founder of the center at Old School Square, and raising $57,000 for events, exhibits and educational opportunities. Broadway star Christine Andreas performed.
ABOVE: Event co-chairs S
The Boynton Beach/Lantana Rotary Club has awarded the first scholarship for a student of the United States to attend the May 28-29 Molecular Frontiers Annual Symposium in Stockholm, Sweden at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Destiny Andrews, a
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
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.
Mary Thurwachter/
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
