On July 16, the Florence Fuller Child Development Center’s Thrift Shop received a special makeover by Neiman Marcus’ Boca Raton employees and a host of dedicated volunteers. Pictured: Neiman Marcus volunteers Jarrod Gac and Marissa Vinograd. Photo p
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By Margie Plunkett
Waste Management retained its contract with Delray Beach in a 3-2 commission vote that allows renewal for the trash disposal company, rather than putting the contract out to bid.
Commissioners made their choice at an August meetin
Bill Slavin, Civil War Union re-enactor, fires off a round to the enjoyment of the crowd at the American Legion Post 65 in Delray Beach. Post 65 held the Civil War re-enactment the weekend of Aug. 11 to raise money and awareness about the nation’s hi
By Tim Pallesen
Delray Beach commissioners have dipped into reserves to prevent an increase in the city property tax rate.
The decision prevents job cuts or a fire fee to make up for a $4 million shortfall in the city’s $97 million proposed operatin
Mary Kate Leming
By Mary Kate Leming, Editor
On the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Andrew’s shredding of Homestead and the Miami area, and seven years since Katrina’s flood waters devastated New Orleans, Tropical Storm Isaac breezed through our are
By Tim O’Meilia
Former alderman Karen Wiggins was appointed unanimously by the Briny Breezes Town Council to fill the seat of Lowen Poock, who died unexpectedly Aug. 9.
Wiggins, who has lived in the town/mobile home park since 2004, was the only r
What better way to celebrate the end of summer, than with a romp in the sprinklers during summer camp at Gulf Stream School?
Henry Dickenson leaps through water as (l-r) Rylan Dahya, Max Martin, Peter Antonucci, Jeb Huisinga and Ryan Fenton wait th
By Margie Plunkett
A proposal by Ocean Ridge Mayor Geoff Pugh to give city employees a 5 percent raise this year — to compensate for three years without an increase — met with shock from a contingent of commissioners.
To support the pay increase, Pu
By Tim O’Meilia
The South Palm Beach Town Council might dip $118,000 into their reserve money to keep from raising the tax rate on condominium owners next year.
The council spent much of a budget workshop session Aug. 7 trying to slice at least $20
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
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
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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
