By Tim O’Meilia
Manalapan voters will have a chance to set term limits on its commissioners and allow the mayor’s presence to count toward getting a quorum for meetings when some commissioners are away.
Those two possible changes in the town charter
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By Tim O’Meilia
One of the nation’s richest communities — where almost every home has a waterfront view — hides a sclerotic and rotting network of water pipes beneath its finely landscaped lawns.
Ten years after a previous Town Commission rejected t
By Mary Thurwachter
The four remaining members of the Lantana Town Council will go it alone until the March 12 election, opting not to appoint anyone to the Group 2 seat vacated last month by Cindy Austino.
Austino, who is moving to Florida’s Panhand
The Lantana Town Council unanimously voted down a height exception request for a planned Hypoluxo Island home.
Owner Edmund Gonzalez made the request for a house to be built at 907 N. Atlantic Drive so he could extend the chimney 18 inches and a mech
Lori Robbins (left) and Candy Evans harvest vegetables in the Community Garden of the Cason Methodist Church in Delray Beach. Photo provided
By Tim Pallesen
The community garden behind Cason Methodist Church isn’t only feeding the poor. The garden
Some changes are in store for residents of the Carlisle, a six-story senior living community at 450 E. Ocean Ave., in Lantana.
Senior Lifestyle Corp., owner of the luxury retirement community since March 2011, plans to make adjustments to better meet
The oldest original edition of the Delray News in the Delray Beach Historical Society’s archives dates from 1923.
Staff photo
The day the 'News Journal' died | Obituary: Anne 'Nancy' Fontaine Maury Miller
By Mary Thurwachter
It’s hardly breaki
June McSweeney (right) laughs while playing bridge with Elaine Brenner at the Harbour’s Edge retirement community in Delray Beach. Photos by Libby Volgyes/The Coastal Star
By Libby Volgyes
The pool is glittering in the morning light, and B
The after-school program at St. Paul’s includes tutoring, like Joyce Harvey (above) helping Brian Saint Val with his math, and a daily meal enjoyed by dozens of students, including Rachelle Poliard and Angie Cyril (below). Photos by Jerry Lower/The C
Women participate in a qigong class near Boca Raton’s South Beach Pavilion. The ancient Chinese class is offered by Lisa Perdue and Enrique Diaz. Paula Detwiller/The Coastal Star
By Paula Detwiller
At first glance, it looks like humanoid robots have
By Emily J. Minor
DELRAY BEACH — Margaret H. Floyd, who began coming to South Florida in the 1960s and enjoyed coming back year after year to nurture her love for tennis and all her friendships, died Sept. 17. A memorial service was held a few day
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Mary Thurwachter
BOYNTON BEACH — Friends and family of community news journalist Anne “Nancy” Fontaine Maury Miller will remember her during a service at 11 a.m. Oct. 13 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Delray Beach.
Mrs. Miller, 79, died
Millar
By Tim O’Meilia
Hours after he spoke at a South Palm Beach Town Council meeting on Sept. 19, former Mayor Martin Millar was arrested after reportedly using a flashlight to attack a man in a Palm Beach Gardens club.
After his arrest, Mill
The South Palm Beach Town Council approved a $1.75 million budget during September public hearings that will hold the tax rate at $4.32 for each $1,000 of taxable property value, the same as this year’s rate.
The town will dip into reserves for $117
Shoeman
By Tim O’Meilia
Briny Breezes last month hired its third deputy town clerk in 15 months following the forced resignation of Cindy Corum after nine months on the job.
Town Clerk pro tem Nancy Boczon, also an alderman, promised Corum th
Director Amy London gives instruction to Hannah Joyce, 13,
of Ocean Ridge, at The Plaza Theatre in Manalapan. London is
leading the students in Frank Loesser’s 1961 musical How to
Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. Tim Stepien/The Coastal
Mary Thurwachter aboard the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile when she was editor of the News Journal. Photo by Paul Milette
By Mary Thurwachter
I was the editor of the Delray Beach/Boynton Beach News Journal the day it perished on Nov. 20, 1986.
Overseein
Megan Mulry’s A Royal Pain will be in
bookstores Nov. 1. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
“What can I do while the kids are in school?”
Some women learn to play tennis. Some take up yoga.
Megan Mulry tackled a royal romance.
Her famil
Janet and Jack Zurell enjoy a spin in their golf
cart in Briny Breezes. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
He made sure there were movies and she reported the news — along with a dollop of wit and inspiration.
Briny Breezes residents since 1990, Ja
By Ron Hayes
HIGHLAND BEACH — On his 90th birthday, Allen Schweizer went out to dinner with family and friends and pronounced himself happy with his long life. If I die tomorrow, he told them, I’ll feel I’ve lived a good, full life.
“And he got mor
