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By Ron Hayes
    
DELRAY BEACH — During his retirement years, Thomas Browne did not play golf or bridge, racquetball, shuffleboard or tennis.
    Mr. Browne walked. And walked.
Every morning he rose at 5, had breakfast, left his home in southern Delray B

By Scott Simmons

The Plaza Theatre has jumped into the ring to help patrons of Boca Raton’s beleaguered Caldwell Theatre.
The Manalapan theater, which opened in February, will honor tickets to Caldwell’s production of Our Lady of Allapattah, which firs

By Steve Plunkett

The clock may be down to its final few ticks on $2.5 million in grants and county money to make over Lake Wyman.

Rob Robbins, director of the county’s Environmental Resources Management Department, told City Council members that th

SCORE South Palm Beach has been named the National SCORE Chapter of the Year, doubling the number of businesses it has helped and for its programs with veterans, teen entrepreneurs and universities.

“Our country survives on the entrepreneurial spirit

Impact 100 founders Cindy Krebsbach (left), Lisa Mulhall and Tandy Robinson raise a toast during their annual meeting and grant presentation at Lynn University. Photo provided

The women of Impact 100 Palm Beach County championed the “power of giving

By Steve Plunkett

The City Council may decide what restaurant goes on the former Wildflower site as soon as October.

The city plans to issue a request for proposals for the 2.25-acre Intracoastal Waterway parcel in mid-June, Deputy City Manager Geor

Grass River Garden Club member Susan Vicinelli shows Paul’s Place after-school student Tanicha Emilcar (center) an edible flower during the April 10 closing of the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Community Garden in Delray Beach. Students Jovante Pierre

Frances Curtiss (seated, from left), Regie Moorcroft and Sylvia Hinges; with Cindy Hopkins and Jeanne Strong, enjoy the March 20 Boca Delray Music Society’s musical social, ‘Hats & Harps Luncheon’ at the Delray Beach Club. Photo provided

Delray Beach Historical Society members and guests enjoy cocktails during the second annual Celebration of Old Delray Cocktails on the Beach fundraiser at The Colony Cabana Club on April 12.
Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal Star

Honorary Chair Jane “Kitchie” Tolleson, Co-Chair Barbara Backer and Spring Boutique Committee Member Laila Young enjoy the three-day shopping extravaganza in downtown Delray Beach March 6-8. Event proceeds benefitted the women and programs of Wayside

Sacred Heart fifth-grader Adrianna Smigiel and her mom, Marcela, of Lake Worth, pick up treats during the April Showers Bring Sacred Heart Flowers Afternoon Tea at St. Andrews Club on April 11. The fundraising event was hosted by The Friends of Sacre

Sandoway House Nature Center’s Earth Day Gala was held under the stars April 14 at a local beach club. Legendary football coach Howard Schnellenburger served as Honorary Chairman.  More than $20,000 was raised for Delray Beach’s only nature center. 

Brianna Ritota has recently accepted scholarship offers for both her academic and athletic achievements from Siena College in Loudonville, N.Y. She plans to attend in the fall to pursue a degree in veterinary medicine. Brianna is graduating from Boca

Tim Barnes, general manager of the Violin Shop and principal
violist with Palm Beach Opera Orchestra, tests the sound of a
violin at the Violin Shop. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

By Tim Norris

Ivory of wooly mammoth, hair of Mongolian

Richard Pollock, who lives in Highland Beach with his wife, 
Mary Jo, has worked for the YMCA for 38 years. He is the CEO
of the YMCA of South Palm Beach County, which includes facilities
in Boca Raton and Boynton Beach. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Sta

Lorraine ‘Lorry’ Herdeen (left) stands with some of the 3-year-old students
from the Pluto Class at the Florence Fuller Child Development Center in
Boca Raton. Front row, from left: Dariya Hill, Gavin Shuler and Arrianna
DeAlva. Back row, from lef

Adian and Sydney O'Connor look through the seaweed in
search of sea beans while on the beach in Ocean Ridge. Tim Stepien.The Coastal Star

By Antigone Barton

It can be a puzzling sight: mounds of newly arrived seaweed lying in the tracks of the tr

The Lupus Foundation of America’s Southeast Florida Chapter hosted its Annual Closet Couture Luncheon at Benvenuto’s on April 10. The event raised over $25,000 to help support the LFA’s mission of finding the causes of and cure for lupus and providin

Edgar Mitchell Lecture Series: Royal Poinciana Chapel, Palm Beach

Rebecca Williams and John Audette joined more than 125 people 
on April 24 to kick off the South Florida Science Museum’s Edgar
Mitchell Science Lecture Series. 

By Antigone Barton

There’s something about tea: Soothing and restoring, a comfort and a tradition, it provides both a lull and a lift to the day. Let fathers celebrate their day with tee times, Mother’s Day tea is an occasion for finger food and flo