By Thom Smith
A year ago this month, Florida Atlantic University President Mary Jane Saunders decided the school’s athletics department needed a kick in the pants. She started at the top, firing Athletic Director Craig Angelos. Granted, the new stadi
‘All those times we looked up at the sky,
Looking out so far
we felt like we could fly.’
— Grace Potter
& The Nocturnals
By Steve Pike
The winter season in Palm Beach County is prime time for stargazing. And not the kind that involves Rod Stewart an
The Plate: Classic Eggs Benedict
The Place: 50 Ocean, 50 S. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach; 278-3364 or 50ocean.com
The Price: $12
The Skinny: There’s no plate like Eggs Benedict for the Hollandaise.
And no matter how far away you roam, the view from 50 Ocean
Mary-Kate Eriksen of Hypoluxo Island is one of five seniors from The Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts to have been nominated for the prestigious Presidential Scholars Award. Inclusion in the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program, now in its 49th
Burt Reynolds gives advice to Marlin Wagner, a student who performed solo moments before.
Photo provided
By Thom Smith
The flu put him in the hospital for several days, but nothing was going to keep Burt Reynolds from going “home” — theatrically.
Elizabeth Thompson’s painting, Undulation. Courtesy image
By Mary Jane Fine
Elizabeth Thompson’s house is a proper Old Florida house, shaded by greenery, all-but-enveloped by greenery — Tarzan wouldn’t look out of place, swinging past on the vi
“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s
going to know whether you did it or not.”
— Oprah Winfrey
Who knows if Oprah really said this, or if one her writers provided these sage words, but in any case, I believe it’s true.
A
Live, Work, Play: Third of a three-part series looking at the downtowns of Delray Beach, Boca Raton and Boynton Beach
A wrecking ball demolishes what remains of the Bank of America
building on Federal Highway at Ocean Avenue in Boynton Beach
in Ja
Adolphus ‘Dolph’ Orthwein and Leverett Miller play polo at the old Gulfstream Polo.
Photos courtesy of the Orthwein family
By Tim Pallesen
Polo put the luster in Gulf Stream in the town’s early days.
Socialites, movie stars and even royalty flocked
Workers prepare the concrete cap for replacement of one of many
seawalls damaged during Hurricane Sandy along the beach in Manalapan.
More than 150 truckloads of sand were hauled to the north end of Delray Beach. A massive project to pump in sand
Fran Marincola, owner of Caffé Luna Rosa in Delray Beach,
has donated his baseball photographs to the Delray Beach
Public Library. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
Scan the walls of Caffé Luna Rosa, Delray Beach’s longtime oceanfront re
By Rich Pollack
Responding to concerns of residents living near the Intracoastal Waterway and the beach, Delray Beach city commissioners have once again put off approval of any changes to the city’s controversial noise ordinance until representative
An ordinance is in the works in Ocean Ridge that would require rental properties to register with the town, pay a fee and undergo inspection. Commissioners directed Town Attorney Ken Spillias to prepare the document at its February meeting.
Commissio
Ocean Ridge Town Commission gave thumbs-up at its February meeting to a site plan that would replace an apartment complex with townhouses at 3 Adams Road, just east of A1A.
The developer, Ernie Varvarikos of Ocean Breeze LLC, plans to demolish Ocean
With the North Atlantic Drive/Beach Curve drainage project complete, Lantana is prepared to begin paving the roads and doing additional drainage improvements on Hypoluxo Island.
At its Feb. 26 meeting, the town approved a contract with M&M Ashpalt Ma
By Betty Wells
An analysis comparing the 1985 value of nearly 2,000 acres in Delray Beach to current value is nearly complete by the Community Redevelopment Agency staff.
Compiling the numbers is the first step in researching whether the city should
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
