A surfer spins back to the ocean after riding a wave churned up by Tropical Storm Isaac near Briny Breezes. Aside from a few power outages and downed tree limbs, most of coastal Palm Beach County was spared damage by this storm. Jerry Lower / The C
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By Steve Plunkett
A lushly landscaped triplex and duplex will replace the giant mound of dirt across from the 4001 condo project being built on State Road A1A in Gulf Stream.
Town commissioners approved the multifamily development Aug. 10 after noti
The water drain project on Hypoluxo Island is complete.
Jerry Darr, Lantana’s utilities director, said work on the much-needed project finished on Aug. 6.
And there’s more good news for the town: The cost was almost $60,000 less than expected.
The es
Taffy Brower of Ocean Ridge has played golf for about 50 years
and has won more than 50 tournaments.Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Craig Dolch
Taffy Brower has played golf for a half-century. Not just golf, but competitive golf, which as Bobby Jo
Photo slideshow
By Thom Smith
Glen Calder was in on the act, but he just wasn’t sure how. Wife Kristin was competing in the annual Boca Ballroom Battle, so in support of the cause — the George Snow Scholarship Fund — he agreed to play a role in her d
de Hoernle
Drive around Palm Beach County, especially Boca Raton, and it’ll be hard not to see a building bearing the name of Count Adolph and Countess Henrietta de Hoernle. The Red Cross, YMCA, Museum of Art and The Railway Station are all examples
Cindy Austino
By Mary Thurwachter
The Lantana Town Council is losing its sole female voice. Vice Mayor Pro Tem Cindy Austino, who has served on the council for five years, announced at the close of the Aug. 27 meeting that she would be leaving very s
Changes may be in store for the Carlisle, the high-end, six-story senior living community at the corner of A1A and Ocean Avenue in Lantana.
Up for discussion at the Sept. 10 Lantana Town Council meeting will be a request from the Carlisle to reduce t
By Tim O’Meilia
When Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne blustered into South Florida in 2004 and Wilma made a backdoor entrance in 2005, condominium associations — and their owners — learned hard lessons.
Count ’em: how to reach absent owners to gain e
By Ron Hayes
The historic Boynton Woman’s Club made history again recently.
In July, the club’s members officially turned over daily management of their 86-year-old building to longtime local caterer Jim Guilbeault.
Under the agreement, the club will
Joseph Rosso
By Ron Hayes
SOUTH PALM BEACH — Thirty-five years ago, Joseph Rosso started a small paving and drainage company in Lake Worth.
At the time of his death on Aug. 1, Rosso Paving & Draining Inc. was doing about $6 million in business each
Sandra Cropper
By Ron Hayes
COUNTY POCKET — Sandra and Reese Cropper bought a winter condo in Ocean Ridge 15 years ago, stayed seven seasons and loved the area so much they decided to search for a bigger home.
They found the county pocket.
“My wife
Lowen Poock
By Ron Hayes
BRINY BREEZES — For a time in the 1990s, Lowen Poock, a certified public accountant from Des Moines, Iowa, stayed at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Manalapan while he worked on a special project for Meisner Electric in Delray
An infestation of Rugose spiraling whitefly covers shrubbery along A1A in Ocean Ridge.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Tim O’Meilia
Last winter was so warm that even one of South Florida’s most unwelcome visitors — the Rugose spiraling
Dr. Pierre Andre Armand Vignau
Dr. Pierre Vignau was born in Caen, France, and was a beloved and unique educator. Teaching was his passion. His patience and humor helped thousands of students master la belle langue, French. Dr. Vignau died Aug. 15,
Dr. Clinton J. Shope
By Cheryl Blackerby
BOCA RATON — The Shope Hope Bell hangs in the radiation oncology department at Lynn Cancer Institute at Boca Raton Regional Hospital. When patients have completed cancer treatments, they can celebrate thei
Gladys Forrestal
By Ron Hayes
SOUTH PALM BEACH — Walking with her husband in Costco or Publix, strolling the streets, eating in restaurants, Gladys Forrestal was often approached by women smiling warmly.
“Gladys,” they asked, “is that you?”
They
Noah Yablong is competing in the singles and tennis
doubles competitions at the Paralympic Games in London.
His parents, who live in Ocean Ridge, will be there to
cheer him on, as will his sister Leah.
Tim Stepien / The Coastal Star
By Emily J.
Scott and Melissa Porten sit with their children,
Ava, 8, and Grayson, 5, at their Delray Beach
home. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
When Scott Porten assumed leadership of the Delray Beach Chamber of Commerce’s governmental affairs committee two y
Scott and Christel Koedel hold their daughters,
Kaia, born Aug. 3, and Katniss, age 18 months.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Paula Detwiller
On the afternoon of Friday, Aug. 3, while her Ocean Ridge neighbors tended their gardens, ran errands,
