NOTE: With so many summer camps offered in our area, we selected those located between the Boca Raton Inlet and the Port of Palm Beach. We tried to keep our listing east of I-95. As of press time, not all summer camp schedules had been set. Please ch
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Summer Camp Guide 2013
By Jane Smith
Summer camp selections abound this year for coastal kids with a range of activities to keep them healthy, channel their creative energy and hone their theater skills.
Digi-Camp is capitalizing on the pop
Lights glow aboard the 355-foot-long dredge Texas as the full-moon rises over coastal Delray Beach on March 20. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
NOTE: The drege was towed away for minor repairs April 3, and is expected to be back on site early next week
By Tim Pallesen
Trader Joe’s wants to compete with Fresh Market in a burst of new commercial activity at the corner of Linton Boulevard and South Federal Highway.
Delray Place, a proposed shopping center at the southeast corner, is seeking city approva
While the beauty salon is still there, the Town Hall has replaced the food store at the south end of town. 1954 File photo courtesy Joan Nichols
By Tim O’Meilia
Briny Breezes celebrated its 50th anniversary as a town with a banner and a slide
At 94, Bob Welstein has no intention of slowing down. He still personally oversees the lecture program he started in South Palm Beach that now bears his name. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
Robert Welstein had a heart attack at 49.
Bulldozers give a sense of the width and depth of the renourishment project.
Photos by Michelle Quigley/ Special to The Coastal Star
More photos from the beach renourishment project
By Cheryl Blackerby
A 355-foot dredge, the most po
Mayor-elect Cary Glickstein’s family friend, retired Judge William Gladstone (center), shares a story before administering the oath of office in the Delray Beach City Commission chambers March 28. Pictured: Commissioner Al Jacquet, Commissioner-elect
By Margie Plunkett
In an attempt to ease downtown traffic, Delray Beach commissioners agreed to changes for the Southeast Second Avenue valet parking queue, including providing it more spaces and prohibiting left-hand turns at the intersection.
By Betty WellsDelray Beach would get about $1.1 million a year in extra tax money under a proposal that would lop off the property east of the Intracoastal Waterway — and the taxes that come from it — now assigned to the city’s redevelopment agency.
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By Tim Pallesen
Money given to nonprofits by the Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency will be examined in an audit by the Florida Auditor General’s Office.
The Legislature’s Joint Audit Committee ordered the audit April 1 at the request
A temporary lifeguard stand opened in March on Lantana Beach.
“Town staff built the one on the dune,” said Lantana Town Manager Deborah Manzo. “We are hoping that the town will obtain approval from the state to put a (permanent) stand back on the
Lantana council members Malcolm Balfour and Lynn Moorehouse (center) cut a cake as Moorehouse’s wife, Celeste, watches at a council meeting. Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal Star
In Lantana, it only took 284 votes for Hypoluxo Island resident Malcolm Balfour
By Mary Thurwachter
Council members in Lantana talked about rescinding the noise variance they approved in January so that contractors, by working at night, could more easily meet their construction deadlines for the Ocean Avenue Bridge.
Althou
By Tim O’Meilia
For the first time since he was hired in 2005, South Palm Beach Town Manager Rex Taylor underwent an evaluation by the Town Council at a Feb. 26 council workshop.
Taylor got good marks in sum from the individual council members,
Lee DiPietro has been running since she was a child. She competes in about 25 races per year.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Mary Jane Fine
Lee DiPietro knows how it must look to the uninitiated. Here she is — it’s 7:15 in the morning, a time whe
By Tim O’MeiliaGulf Stream town commissioners gave a tentative green light to new street lights — provided town residents give a thumbs up to a demonstration model to be erected, perhaps near Town Hall soon.
“Let people see what they are going to
By Tim O’Meilia
Gulf Stream resident Martin O’Boyle’s request to remodel the entry way on his 1983 Hidden Harbour Drive home was denied twice by town commissioners at their March 15 meeting.
During a four-hour hearing, the commission unanimousl
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami has begun an investigation of allegations by a Manalapan resident that the town’s Police Department engages in racial profiling.
Resident Kersen De Jong first filed a formal complaint with the Florida Department of
Town voters, the few who did vote, overwhelmingly approved a charter change imposing term limits on the mayor and commissioners by a 52-14 margin.
Elected officials can serve a maximum of three consecutive two-year terms as either mayor or commis
