Vital Flight pilot Juan Plaza (right) assists Scott Rubin, 20, of Boca Raton,
before his plane ride during the organization’s special event at the Boca
Raton Airport. Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Pilot Juan Plaza checked the ins
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Serena and Venus Williams contend with the breezes on the
patio of Apt. 401, the $6.5 million condo Venus decorated at
One Thousand Ocean in Boca Raton. Thom Smith/The Coastal Star
By Thom Smith
When her tennis game is on, few players want to be
By Steve Plunkett
Residents are mostly pleased with the way their town government works — at least that’s the word from 192 people who completed Highland Beach’s official survey this winter.
“I think overall, the results that you got from your res
The Palm Beach County League of Cities held its first meeting in Highland Beach on March 28.
“Thank you to the Town of Highland Beach and St. Lucy Catholic Church. Our first visit to the town was memorable,” the league said on its website.
The leagu
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
You don’t need to reserve a seat or pack a suitcase to board the Boca Express. Just bring your love of history and your imagination.
At the Boca Express Train Museum, you start your 30-minute tour in the original station b
Closet Couture Luncheon to benefit The Lupus Foundation of America, Southeast Florida Chapter will be held April10 at Benvenuto Caterestaurant, 1730 N. Federal Hwy. in Boynton Beach. Guest speaker is Eva Ritvo, MD, author of The Beauty Prescription:
Natalie Warren, volunteer program manager for the Spirit of Giving Network,
bills herself as a volunteer matchmaker who pairs people with organizations
that need their help.
Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Jodi Lane wanted t
Artist Chris Burlini (right) works with Bob Green of Boca Raton, who has been a student of his for several months at the Burlini Studio in Boca Raton. Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal Star
By Mary Jane Fine
There’s an art to teaching art. Sometimes, it begi
Janice Rubin of Highland Beach is one of 85 people
who volunteer for Listen to Children. Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
Every week, about 85 men and women arrive at 53 elementary and middle schools in Palm Beach County.
They stay perha
Delray Acura/Hyundai President Jim O’Neill
and his guest, retired FAU football coach Howard
Schnellenberger, lead more than 40 golf carts through
Mizner Park Plaza during the St. Patrick’s Day Golf Cart
Parade. Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal Star
By St
Sandoway House Nature Center Gala committee members Carolyn Patton (l) and Elaine Morris meet with Honorary Chair Coach Howard Schnellenberger to plan the April 14 event. The gala features live music by The Valerie Tyson Band and lots of dancing unde
Rick Dupuis with his wife, Gale, and their dog Cappuccino.
Rick was born and raised in Ontario, Canada, and moved
to Florida more than 40 years ago. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
If there’s a pattern to Rick DuPuis’ life, it’s that he always trie
Boca Raton’s Old Town Hall is among the contest candidates. Photo provided
By Mary Thurwachter
The most popular Florida building may be in South Palm Beach County.
Results of an online poll of the state’s top 100 architectural buildings in the “
Melissa Adams shows purses to Claire and Tony Parasiliti
at Dzines Consignment in Boca Raton.
By Paula Detwiller
Got stuff? Sure you do. Stuff your kids left behind. Stuff your parents left behind. Stuff you bought but don’t use anymore.
Whether we
Gulf Stream School Underwriting Party will be held April 21 at the Delray Beach Marriott. The event is open to the community, supporters and GSS families. Experience the bohemian spectacular that was Old Havana — cocktails, dinner and dancing, blackj
By Emily Minor
BOCA RATON — Nancy Bayzar Toumayan, who moved to Florida in 1998 and spent many years as a home health-care nurse, caring and cooking for the lonely and ailing elderly, died March 21 of complications from pulmonary fibrosis.
“She ha
The Historical Society of Palm Beach County and the Delray Beach Historical Society host a collaborative event as part of a Public Program Initiative for local families. Held from 11:00 am-2:00 pm, April 29 at Sandoway House Nature Center, 142 S. Oce
J. Ernest Brophy
By Ron Hayes
BOCA RATON — J. Ernest Brophy, a winter resident of Boca Raton for 35 years, died March 19. He was 87 and had battled lung cancer and heart disease.
Mr. Brophy died peacefully at his Cocoanut Road home, surrounded by f
Injections of her own stem cells helped Mary Ellen Cook
of Delray Beach (right) avoid knee-replacement surgery.
Cook plays tennis twice a week with other senior players
like Joyce Joyner of Delray Beach, who have also found pain
relief through stem-
Highland Beach resident George Banet (left) with historian
Serge Klarsfield in the film La France Divisée. Photo provided
The film La France Divisée will be the center of Highland Beach Library’s Yom Hashoah commemoration.
Yom Hashoah, Holocaust M
