The Lansing Melbourne Group proposal shows glass enclosures and an outdoor garden.
Drawing provided
By Angie Francalancia
After 20 years of debating the fate of Boynton Beach’s Old High School, city leaders now are in a hurry to see it transformed in
Lina Roche, an eighth-grader at St. Mark Catholic School, checks the depth of the sea grape tree she planted with classmate Katelyn Guinan at Boynton Beach’s Oceanfront Park in Ocean Ridge on April 26. The Arbor Day event memorialized surfer and envi
By Emily J. Minor
They were different times back then, certainly, what with free love and the women’s movement and the Vietnam War. And for local resident and writer Kristin Alexandre, it was, in so many ways, the defining years of her life.
Yo
Gumbo Limbo Nature Center hopes to open the first two of its four new tanks the third week of May.
Work on the nearshore-reef habitat was finished at the end of April, said Michele Peel, president of the Friends of Gumbo Limbo. The mangrove habitat w
By Mary Thurwachter
The season has come to an end and many of you are headed north for the summer. Seems like just yesterday we were putting together the holiday gift guide, for goodness sakes. Where has the time gone?
We will miss you, but we won
Hamid Hashemi, iPic Theaters. Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal Star
By Thom Smith
Long ago and far, far away, Hamid Hashemi couldn’t get enough of movies. His mother would take him and his brother and sister to the local cinema in Tehran, Iran, every Frid
By Angie Francalancia
The buildings will be taller, the occupants younger and the amenities more cutting-edge than anything downtown Boca Raton has seen. And if the developers’ and city leaders’ predictions come true, the new apartments going up in
Jack and Beverly Circle bake fruitcakes to raise money for the Boca Raton
Museum of Art and its school.Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Paula Detwiller
He had a men’s clothing business in St. Louis. She had an antiques shop.
They raised two daugh
The Christine E. Lynn Women’s Health and Wellness Institute at Boca Raton Regional Hospital is one of 10 leading clinical centers in the country to have participated in a new breast ultrasound study.
The study was conducted among women with dense br
Eleven former or current Boca Raton Regional Hospital physicians have been nominated for the Palm Beach County Medical Society’s Heroes in Medicine Awards and will be honored at the Society’s ninth annual luncheon, at the Kravis Center on May 9.
For
Barbara and Dick Schmidt and the Schmidt Family Foundation’s
gift to Boca Raton Regional Hospital follows a $25 million gift
by Billi and Bernie Marcus. Photo provided
The Marcus Neuroscience Institute, scheduled to open in 2014, got a hefty cash
Boston Proper employees enjoy the fashion show during
the Proper Affair held at the Boca Raton Resort & Club on
April 18. Sitting in the front row, from left: Alain Boyer,
Ernie Sulpizio, Deanna Lederman and Giulio Ghiro. Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal
By Steve Plunkett
Creating new signs at the town’s entryways and choosing a slogan to put on them aren’t the top goals of Highland Beach’s new three-year strategic plan, but they may be the ones finished first.
“We love our town. Let’s make it loo
Charles and Anna Carlino’s Polynesian-style home on Avenue Au Soleil in Gulf Stream.
By Christine Davis
There are a few people in South Florida’s tropical paradise who live in literal Shangri-Las.
Take for example, Bruce and Muriel “Mert” And
By Steve Plunkett
The city hopes to win a $109,050 matching grant to help pay for replacement equipment to move sand from the Boca Raton Inlet south onto beaches.
The City Council authorized applying for the Florida Inland Navigation District grant
The city will make a $170,000 emergency repair to a bridge on Date Palm Road after a truck exceeding the posted weight limit crossed the span and a large piece of concrete fell off.
Boca Raton-based Florida Concrete Protection LLC won a $202,794 bid
By Emily J. Minor
HYPOLUXO ISLAND — Hers was a life full of passion, people and laughter, lots of laughter.
“Anyone who met Lib loved her,” remembers Sharon Ehlers, who cared for Mary Elizabeth Sory in the years before Miss Sory’s death.
“Actual
The results are in and Boca Raton’s old town hall has been deemed the “top civic building” in Florida.
The designation came in April after an online poll of the state’s top 100 architectural buildings in the “Florida Architecture: 100 Years, 100 Pla
Former Boca Raton Rotary Club President Rick Zimmer (above left) presents a $50,000 check during the April 24 groundbreaking ceremony for the new city library. Rotary Club President Douglas Mummaw (lectern) speaks as Mayor Susan Whelchel (back left)
President and CEO of Hospice by the Sea Inc. Paula J. Alderson, left, congratulates skipper Bret Moss, second from left, after his team’s second-place win. Photo provided
Despite near gale force winds and torrential downpours, skipper Bret Moss, r
