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Barbara and Ed Buchanan hold foster cats Keeli 
and Kami outside their Greenacres home. The
couple are foster volunteers for the Palm Beach
County Animal Control Center. Keeli and Kami
are the 73rd and 74th kittens the Buchanans
have fostered. Tim

Physical therapy aid Alicia Phillips helps patient
Suzanne Volin relieve Parkinson’s symptoms at the
Giger MD Movement Therapy Center in
Boca Raton. Paula Detwiller/The Coastal Star

By Paula Detwiller

Charlie Lorenzo was a star basketball playe

Maitz’s painting titled Forty Thieves is on display at the Cornell Museum. Image provided

By Greg Stepanich

Call them a peg-leg meritocracy. 

Or perhaps they were a band of freethinkers, governmental naysayers who rejected the repressive society

Chrissy Loffredo brought her four children from
Wellington to golf at Putt’n Around in Delray Beach. 

Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

Step right up, ladies and gentlemen. This way, kids. Pick up a putter. Grab a golf ball

By Tim Pallesen

A new $3 million mosque that opened last month is evidence of the rapidly growing Muslim population in southern Palm Beach County.
    The 30,000-square-foot Islamic Center of Boca Raton will serve as a house of prayer, education cent

As a benefit for the Achievement Centers for Children and Families, an event catering to “the woman within” will be held at 6 pm, Oct. 4 at Hyatt Place, 104 NE 2nd Ave., Delray Beach.  For $50, women enjoy hors d’oeuvres and wine, live music, complim

Registration for the East Boynton Beach Little League's Fall 2012 Season will begin on Saturday, August 18 from 10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. at the fields (300 Woolbright Road). Following this, registrations will also be accepted Monday through Friday from 6

Painters at Artful Dreamers Studio during the tour.

Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

Delray Beach: Artist sees flourishing gallery off the beaten path

By Ron Hayes

BOYNTON BEACH —Shortly after 5 p.m. on July 19, a Molly’s Trolley carrying abo

Vincent Cacace shows off artwork to Anne Walsh.
 Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

Boynton Beach: Trolley takes enthusiasts on art-related tour

By Mary Jane Fine
    
DELRAY BEACH —Vincent Cacace envisions the future of Artists Alley as if it w

By Tim O’Meilia
   
Four things learned from last month’s visit of President Obama and Vice President Biden:
    1. Waiting onlookers and reporters like pizza, ice cream and cinnamon-nut French toast.
    2. Roped-off parking lots mean no parking me

By Tim Pallesen
    
Every registered voter in Palm Beach is eligible to vote in nine races on the Aug. 14 primary ballot. That’s a change from the days when primary elections were strictly closed elections for Republicans and Democrats to select their

Gulf Stream resident Pamela Goodman has dropped out of the State House race for coastal South County because of her husband’s health.
“It’s a pretty serious illness. I can’t stay on the campaign trail,” Goodman said after notifying Democratic Party of

By Steve Plunkett
    
Deputy Boca Raton Manager George Brown is a “Home Rule Hero” to cities across the county and across the state for helping derail a proposed Florida law on sober houses.
Richard Radcliffe, executive director of the county League of

By Tim Pall

To preprare for the competition, Bob Gittlin practices his dance moves with partner Mariya-Khristina Shurupova at Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Boca Raton. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

By Paula Detwiller
    
Bob Gittlin believes so strongly in helping

By Tim O’Meilia
    
Imagine unmanned drones patrolling the Manalapan shoreline or helium-filled balloons surveilling the beach or infra-red cameras spying north and south after dark along the oceanfront. However fantastic and unlikely — except perhaps

By Margie Plunkett

    Ocean Ridge had full police coverage in county parks for the July Fourth holiday week, protected by marked and unmarked patrol cars, marine patrols, motorcycle officers and even a helicopter as the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Of

Ocean Ridge Commissioners passed an ordinance in July that requires residents to remove foliage that’s dead or dying due to pests like the white fly.  The ordinance gives residents 60 days to try to treat the plants; if plants don’t respond, however,

By Mary Thurwachter

    Tax rates haven’t been raised in Lantana for 11 years and that won’t change this year.
    Council members set the preliminary tax rate at $3.24 per $1,000 of a home’s assessed value at their July 23 meeting.
    “We’ve been thr

By Angie Francalancia
    
Boynton Beach commissioners once again are talking about closing the city’s downtown fire station, which ran on more than half the calls in Ocean Ridge last year, to cut costs.
    During budget workshops last month, Commi