By Margie Plunkett
Motorists will have hundreds of new parking options each evening and on weekends in Delray Beach.
Mayor Woodie McDuffie got the word that the city can open the County Courthouse parking garage for use after hours seven days a week
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Bill Koch and his wife, Mary Lou, with polo stars
Del Carroll, Buddy Combs, Russell Firestone and William Mayer.
By Ron Hayes
If the people of Gulf Stream remember William F. Koch Jr. as lovingly as he remembered the town, history will have been
Pamela Goodman
By Tim Pallesen
Pamela Goodman fought hard for redistricting as a League of Women Voters leader.
So the Gulf Stream resident says it makes sense for her to become a candidate now that the boundary for a coastal South County state Hous
By Tim O’Meilia
Rex Taylor’s seventh anniversary as South Palm Beach town manager is this month and to mark the occasion his employers will review his performance for the first time.
But not before he does it first. Then next year, the council will
By Mary Thurwachter
For the second time in seven months, Lantana plans to splurge on a waterfront land purchase on the west side of the Intracoastal Waterway just north of Ocean Avenue. The town will spend $965,000 for lots at 206, 210 and 302 N. Lak
Ann Rutherford of Boca Raton brought her charitable activism
to another level with her book Flags of Freedom, honoring the men
and women who serve in the armed forces. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
What does being an American mean to you?
That’s t
Kathleen Weiser
By Steve Plunkett
The newest members of the Town Commission were at opposite ends last month when recommending a salary boost for the almost-as-new town manager.
Vice Mayor Ron Brown praised Town Manager Kathleen Weiser and pr
Nicky Mill with dad Andy and a permit fish he
caught on a fly rig in Cuba last year. Photo courtesy Andy Mill
By Thom Smith
It was a high school tennis tournament, more than 40 years ago, in Pompano Beach. The final score was 6-0, 6-0. The
Charles A. McCutcheon
By Christine Davis
BOCA RATON — Charles A. McCutcheon, 83, of Boca Raton, who served as Palm Beach County sheriff and Boca Raton police chief, died at home on June 19.
His long career in law enforcement began as a patrol
By Steve Plunkett
The Lake Wyman restoration project, dropped with a 4-1 vote by the Boca Raton City Council, could still be brought back to life.
“It’s never actually dead,” said Daniel Bates, the county’s deputy director of Environmental Reso
Frank J. Devine
By Ron Hayes
DELRAY BEACH — After retiring from a distinguished career in the U.S. Foreign Service, Frank Devine brought his diplomatic skills to Palm Beach County, first as an adjunct professor at Palm Beach Atlantic College, then
By Angie Francalancia
The burglars use rental cars, rented in someone else’s name. They often come up from Broward County, and have the cars’ windows tinted extra dark. Their target: Boca Raton.
But after seeing home and auto burglaries spike i
Ann Boden
By Mary Thurwachter
HIGHLAND BEACH — Even during the final months of her life while battling a long illness, Ann Boden retained her positive and fun-loving outlook, according to her next-door neighbor Judith Krovetz.
“She was a wonderful
Members of the first graduating class at Boca Raton Rabbinical College include (l-r) Levi Weingarten, 22, of Flint, Mich.; Shmaya Futerfas, 22, of Brooklyn; Sholom Wilansky, 21, of Montreal; Sholom Elharrar, 21 of Montreal; and Mendal Abramowitz, 21,
United by their shared Jewish values of philanthropy and Tikkun Olam, 50 women gathered for the installation celebration. The women are just starting their year-long terms. Eydie Holz, Women’s Philanthropy vice chair for community development (left)
Soroptimist International President Lorry Herdeen (left), Mark Hansen and community leaders Cynthia Cummings and Elke Schmidt attend the June 10 installation dinner for new officers. Photo provided
Randy ‘the Kite Man’ Lowe with one of his collection. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Paula Detwiller
Today it’s the 90-foot squid — swaying, nodding, riding the breeze above Delray’s public beach. Tomorrow it might be the 150-foot cob
By Ron Hayes
Every week or so, a gold, 1971 Oldsmobile Cutlass pulls up to the Helping Hands food center on Northwest First Court, where the driver unloads a box of papayas gathered from the trees in his yard.
The Oldsmobile Cutlass has 169,000
Members of the Brotherhood Ride honored the 11 emergency responders who died in the line of duty last year in Florida by riding bicycles through the state, covering more than 550 miles in eight days. The ride began June 3 in Naples, traveled up the
Dale Sugerman
By Steve Plunkett
Former Town Manager Dale Sugerman ended the Highland Beach chapter of his career and started a new one the next day 28 miles to the north. Highland Beach commissioners grudgingly approved paying Sugerman and his attorn
