Charles Kraus
By Liz Best
BOCA RATON — Charles Kraus made a difference in his native New Jersey as a prominent Republican, banker and Bergen County roads chief. He also made a difference when he retired to the Esplanade condominiums in Boca Rato
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By Hap Erstein
Boca Raton’s Caldwell Theatre has been in a financial bind ever since it took out a $6 million mortgage on its new theater in 2008. But it sees an end to its difficulties, with an imminent filing for Chapter 11 reorganization bankrupt
Land-use planning consultant Charlie Siemon lives and works at Mizner Park.
He helped create the original vision in the early 1990s for the mixed-use downtown
development, and has overseen Festival of the Arts Boca since its debut in 2007.
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Roberta Jurney (left), Peggy Kelleher, Dr. Maria M. Vallejo, Lynda Levitsky,
Bobbi Horwich, Lexye Aversa, Renee Plevy, Sherry Frankel, Jacie Keeley
and Patricia Turner. Photo provided
Outstanding local women will be honored with portraits during th
Exotic car fans enjoyed the view at the
Concours D’ Elegance. Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Steve Constantine is a car guy through and through.
“I’ve been a car guy ever since I was old enough to know about cars,” says Constanti
Former Boca Raton Mayor Bill Smith and his wife Bonny,
were decked out in matching shirts at the George Snow Scholarship
Fund’s 19th Annual Caribbean Cowboy Ball on Jan. 28.
Jason Walton, chief of staff at Lynn University, above,
and Jessica Corn
Kelly Barrette and Raymond Jones distribute signs around their coastal Delray Beach neigh-borhood to protest the planned upscale recovery houses for people with drug and alcohol addictions. Photo by Jerry Lower
By Tim Pallesen and Antigone Barton
As
By Thomas R. Collins
The decision by Caron Treatment Centers to spend millions of dollars to buy two large houses near the ocean in Delray Beach is designed to expand the organization’s addiction-treatment offerings.
It could also be seen as a shrew
Rich Draper, co-owner of the Ice Cream Club, reminisces with Kathy Willoughby at his Manalapan shop. Photo by Jerry Lower
By Ron Hayes
Here’s the big scoop.
Thirty years ago, two former fraternity brothers from the University of Illinois at Ur
The big bully. The mean kid. We always knew them when we saw them.
Generations of parents helped their children face the school bully, and surviving their attacks came to seem a rite of passage to adulthood.
Somehow, though, the tough-it-out
Sea Angels founders (l-r) Rod and Kathy Silverio and Robyn and Mike Halasz prepare for a cleanup event at the Boynton Beach Inlet in late January. The group aims to remove litter from the beaches with a ‘minimal carbon footprint and without disturbin
By Tim O’Meilia
A former Lantana police officer was sentenced to three years in prison Jan. 10 after pleading guilty to stealing cash from Hispanic men during traffic stops.
Mark Ott, 36, pleaded guilty to three counts of targeting Hispanic me
By Jan NorrisLots of activity in local restaurants. Star chef Michelle Bernstein has left The Omphoy as restaurateur. Official word from her publicist didn’t elaborate beyond saying she’s leaving effective Feb. 1 and that, “She and husband/partner Da
By Steve Plunkett
Boca Raton and Delray Beach are tracking a bill in the Florida Senate that would establish rules for a “sober house transitional living home.”
The proposal by state Sen. Ellyn Setnor Bogdanoff, R-Fort Lauderdale, would require supe
By Tim O’Meilia
While the Ocean Avenue Bridge is rebuilt beginning in mid-March, Lantana’s Hypoluxo Island residents may see the strobing blue lights of a Manalapan or South Palm Beach police cruiser first when they call for law enforcement help
By Steve Plunkett
WPBT’s Evening With Jim Lehrer this month gives top billing to the longtime PBS news anchor and presidential debate moderator, but Gulf Stream Mayor William Koch Jr. comes in a close second.
The Miami-based station will present Ko
By Steve Plunkett
Water bills in Gulf Stream will have a new $30 charge every two months to save up for future repairs.
“Basically what we are recommending is that we immediately begin billing an additional base fee,” Town Manager William Thras
Ellen Glendinning Frazer Ordway was photographed taking a photograph in 1938.
By Mary Thurwachter
For quite a few years, mostly in the 1920s and ’30s, Philadelphian photographer Ellen Glendinning Frazer Ordway chronicled the lives of prominent,
Robert Rookie, 21, of Delray Beach checks out the Stanley Cup at Boston’s on the Beach on Jan. 19. The trophy and a few Bruins (2011 champs) are on a national tour. Photo by Kurtis Boggs
By Thom Smith
Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye. Forthwith, insofar
Commissioners are considering budget cuts and a reconstituted fire fee to make up a $3.2 million shortfall resulting from the defeat of a fire assessment after vehement public protest.
The panel directed City Manager David Harden to work toward a 50-5
