Barbara and Dick Schmidt and the Schmidt Family Foundation’s
gift to Boca Raton Regional Hospital follows a $25 million gift
by Billi and Bernie Marcus. Photo provided
The Marcus Neuroscience Institute, scheduled to open in 2014, got a hefty cash
Boston Proper employees enjoy the fashion show during
the Proper Affair held at the Boca Raton Resort & Club on
April 18. Sitting in the front row, from left: Alain Boyer,
Ernie Sulpizio, Deanna Lederman and Giulio Ghiro. Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal
By Steve Plunkett
Creating new signs at the town’s entryways and choosing a slogan to put on them aren’t the top goals of Highland Beach’s new three-year strategic plan, but they may be the ones finished first.
“We love our town. Let’s make it loo
Charles and Anna Carlino’s Polynesian-style home on Avenue Au Soleil in Gulf Stream.
By Christine Davis
There are a few people in South Florida’s tropical paradise who live in literal Shangri-Las.
Take for example, Bruce and Muriel “Mert” And
By Steve Plunkett
The city hopes to win a $109,050 matching grant to help pay for replacement equipment to move sand from the Boca Raton Inlet south onto beaches.
The City Council authorized applying for the Florida Inland Navigation District grant
The city will make a $170,000 emergency repair to a bridge on Date Palm Road after a truck exceeding the posted weight limit crossed the span and a large piece of concrete fell off.
Boca Raton-based Florida Concrete Protection LLC won a $202,794 bid
By Emily J. Minor
HYPOLUXO ISLAND — Hers was a life full of passion, people and laughter, lots of laughter.
“Anyone who met Lib loved her,” remembers Sharon Ehlers, who cared for Mary Elizabeth Sory in the years before Miss Sory’s death.
“Actual
The results are in and Boca Raton’s old town hall has been deemed the “top civic building” in Florida.
The designation came in April after an online poll of the state’s top 100 architectural buildings in the “Florida Architecture: 100 Years, 100 Pla
Former Boca Raton Rotary Club President Rick Zimmer (above left) presents a $50,000 check during the April 24 groundbreaking ceremony for the new city library. Rotary Club President Douglas Mummaw (lectern) speaks as Mayor Susan Whelchel (back left)
President and CEO of Hospice by the Sea Inc. Paula J. Alderson, left, congratulates skipper Bret Moss, second from left, after his team’s second-place win. Photo provided
Despite near gale force winds and torrential downpours, skipper Bret Moss, r
By Ron Hayes
DELRAY BEACH — During his retirement years, Thomas Browne did not play golf or bridge, racquetball, shuffleboard or tennis.
Mr. Browne walked. And walked.
Every morning he rose at 5, had breakfast, left his home in southern Delray B
By Scott Simmons
The Plaza Theatre has jumped into the ring to help patrons of Boca Raton’s beleaguered Caldwell Theatre.
The Manalapan theater, which opened in February, will honor tickets to Caldwell’s production of Our Lady of Allapattah, which firs
By Steve Plunkett
The clock may be down to its final few ticks on $2.5 million in grants and county money to make over Lake Wyman.
Rob Robbins, director of the county’s Environmental Resources Management Department, told City Council members that th
SCORE South Palm Beach has been named the National SCORE Chapter of the Year, doubling the number of businesses it has helped and for its programs with veterans, teen entrepreneurs and universities.
“Our country survives on the entrepreneurial spirit
Impact 100 founders Cindy Krebsbach (left), Lisa Mulhall and Tandy Robinson raise a toast during their annual meeting and grant presentation at Lynn University. Photo provided
The women of Impact 100 Palm Beach County championed the “power of giving
By Steve Plunkett
The City Council may decide what restaurant goes on the former Wildflower site as soon as October.
The city plans to issue a request for proposals for the 2.25-acre Intracoastal Waterway parcel in mid-June, Deputy City Manager Geor
Grass River Garden Club member Susan Vicinelli shows Paul’s Place after-school student Tanicha Emilcar (center) an edible flower during the April 10 closing of the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Community Garden in Delray Beach. Students Jovante Pierre
Frances Curtiss (seated, from left), Regie Moorcroft and Sylvia Hinges; with Cindy Hopkins and Jeanne Strong, enjoy the March 20 Boca Delray Music Society’s musical social, ‘Hats & Harps Luncheon’ at the Delray Beach Club. Photo provided
Delray Beach Historical Society members and guests enjoy cocktails during the second annual Celebration of Old Delray Cocktails on the Beach fundraiser at The Colony Cabana Club on April 12.
Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal Star
Honorary Chair Jane “Kitchie” Tolleson, Co-Chair Barbara Backer and Spring Boutique Committee Member Laila Young enjoy the three-day shopping extravaganza in downtown Delray Beach March 6-8. Event proceeds benefitted the women and programs of Wayside
