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By Steve Plunkett

Changing town attorneys may save the town upward of $30,000 a year if January’s legal bill is any guide.

New attorney Glen Torcivia billed Highland Beach $6,396 for 32.8 hours of work in his first month on the job. The total is jus

Stephanie Miskew of coastal Delray Beach raises a glass
inside the wine room at the Seagate Hotel & Spa, where one of the Boca Bacchanal events will be held. Miskew is general
chairman. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

Steph

St. Lucy Catholic Church member Marilyn Rubin (left)
of Highland Beach enjoys the Xpressions 2012 40th Annual
Fashion Show & Luncheon with her guest Audrey Miller. The
show was held at the Delray Beach Club on Feb. 18. 

By Tim Pallesen

The social l

By Steve Plunkett

All planning and design efforts for a park at Ocean Strand have been stopped.

The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District, which owns the oceanfront 14.85 acres just south of Spanish River Park, ordered a halt to Ocean Strand wor

Residents of the Boca Cove/Camino Cove neighborhood are on guard after two burglaries on the south side of Russell Drive.

Police alerted residents via email following the second burglary. 

Both incidents happened on a late Saturday afternoon or early

The Boca Raton Historical Society is offering snippets
of pioneer Frank Chesebro’s diaries as tweets. Photos provided

By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley

Frank Chesebro moved to Boca Raton from Michigan in 1903. He planted his land, worked with a crew of A

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

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 Norris

Lots 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