By Margie Plunkett
A $9 million beach renourishment project will proceed, after Delray Beach commissioners committed to spending the money even though anticipated federal financing has not been allocated.
“It will cost us way more if we don’t,” said
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By Tim O’Meilia
Gulf Stream homeowners will pay 7.1 percent more in town property taxes, on average, in the new budget year as commissioners try to replenish the town reserves.
The commission voted unanimously at public hearings in September to bump
Bobby, Marge, Caron, Bob, Nancy, Maureen and Jim Dockerty serve as celebrity chefs and bartenders at ‘Dine Out For A Cause,’
raising $2,000 in celebration of the library’s 100th birthday.
Henrietta de Hoernle listens during ceremonies
at Boca West to mark her 100th birthday.
Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Thom Smith
While Palm Beach has been throwing over-the-top parties for a century, Boca has been a bit more reserved.
Commissioner Tom Carney announced his candidacy in the Delray Beach mayoral race, challenging former Planning Board Chairman Cary Glickstein for the post.
The seat will be vacated by current Mayor Woodie McDuffie, who is not eligible to run after rea
By Margie Plunkett
Delray Beach Commissioners introduced five ordinances to amend the city’s charter, including one that wasn’t favored but passed to allow public comment.
The charter amendments are scheduled for a public hearing Oct. 16. If approve
Frank McKinney wants to split an oceanfront property that once belonged to cartoonist Fontaine Fox. Photo provided
By Rich Pollack
Developer Frank McKinney is hoping to get the green light to split his remaining historic Delray Beach oceanfron
Clayton Peart, Robert Hickok and Marissa Garone-Blatz
attended the event. The donations and silent-auction bids garnered more than $1,000 to benefit the Delray Beach Preservation Trust.
South Palm Beach Town Council members Robert Gottlieb and Bonnie Fischer supported the literacy luncheon.
Sue Wandersman, Michele Popper, Denise St. Patrick Bell, honoree Eliot Popper and Jean Evans. The gala raised more than $30,000 for the organization’s mission of providing homeownership opportunities to those in need.
Mike Campbell, executive director
By Tim Pallesen
Ocean Ridge commissioners have cut back on their budget after residents objected to the tax rate increase.
Three of five commissioners were ready Sept. 10 to raise the current property tax rate of $5.25 per $1,000 of taxable property
Donna Askinazy, Marilyn Adler and Shelley Studley staff the Pap Corps display table during Boca Festival Days. The event raised $2,000.
By Tim Pallesen
A proposed task force to study the mutual concerns of coastal communities is picking up steam.
Ocean Ridge became the first town to select a representative to the A1A Future Plan task force by naming Commissioner Edward Brookes to
By Tim O’Meilia
Four southern Palm Beach County coastal towns are part of the 23 percent.
That is, beaches in South Palm Beach, Manalapan and Lantana won’t benefit in the near future from an inlet-to-inlet beach management plan now being assembled
Dr. Jim Weege gives examinations and vaccinations to more than 35 pets during an adoption and low-cost vaccination clinic.
By Tim O’Meilia
For months, Manalapan town commissioners discussed ways to beef up police presence in Ocean Inlet Park and Bird Island to shoo away trespassers and turn down the beach volume.
Adding a marine patrol unit, expanding the beach patrol w
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
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
