Australian pines along A1A are part of Gulf Stream’s signature look. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Tim O’Meilia
The hammock of dense growth will remain along A1A in front of the old Spence property in Gulf Stream — noxious non-native plants incl
By Margie Plunkett
Thanks to anonymous donations, the Ocean Ridge Police Department is getting a new police car that had previously been cut from the budget.
The commission in December accepted the donation of $30,000 from the Ocean Ridge Support G
The Lantana Police Department will be getting two 2013 vehicles this year — a Dodge Charger pursuit car and a Chevy Tahoe 1500.
Total cost for the vehicles is $47,971 — $21,401 for the Dodge, $26,570 for the Tahoe. Another $36,702 will be spent for pa
The koi pond at Ocean Ridge Town Hall has aquatic plants so koi have hiding spots. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
Every day at around 3 p.m., receptionist Lisa Burns feeds the orange, black, white and cream koi darting abo
A detail of the window at Bethesda-by-the-Sea that depicts the biblical story of Jonah. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Mary Thurwachter
While not meant as a recruitment tool to lasso in the faithful, the Bethesda-by-the-Sea Church tour has drawn
Casa Alva, built in 1934 for a Vanderbilt heiress, has been both a private home and a social club. Photo provided
By Mary Thurwachter
Manalapan found its place on the social map with the construction of two grand homes for two great-grandchildren
Jayson Koss, known as ‘The Dude,’ founded Delivery Dudes
three years ago. The company has expanded across Palm Beach
County and into Broward. Libby Volgyes/The Coastal Star
By Libby Volgyes
On a recent Saturday night, Jayson Koss, 27, took to his
A walk along Manalapan’s beachfront is a dramatic illustration of the adage, “a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.”
Towering steel seawalls riddled with huge, rusted, Swiss cheese-like holes lay bowed seaward before eroded pits where
Dr. Gwen Flinchum interacts with Sydney, a 13-year-old black palm cockatoo.
Flinchum is owner/veterinarian at the All Bird Clinic of the Palm Beaches.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Arden Moore
Although the name of my column is called Paws Up fo
The razorbill, a seabird that usually travels no farther south than the Carolinas, was a common sight off the Boynton Inlet during the middle of December. Beach erosion and other disturbances brought on by Hurricane Sandy are thought to have prompted
Manalapan property owners are working together to fix their failing seawalls. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Tim O’Meilia
While oceanfront residents scramble for permits to rebuild their collapsed seawalls, the Manalapan Town Commission is con
By Tim O’Meilia
A proposed inlet-to-inlet approach to beach restoration and management will cost small coastal towns $4,000 to $19,000 a year with no promise that a beach protection project would be approved.
The pilot project proposed by s
Update: Citizens group sues city over density approval for Atlantic Plaza II
By Tim Pallesen
Coastal residents near the proposed Atlantic Plaza II project remain concerned after Delray Beach commissioners narrowly gave developers the OK to build
Maura and Bill Benjamin have enjoyed living in their historic Manapalan home for 33 years. Photo provided
By Christine Davis
Bill and Maura Benjamin have happily downsized from their longtime historic home, Casa Alva at 1300 Lands End Road in Mana
Mary and Joseph, played by Alice Robinson and Hunter Gregg, were surrounded by wise men, angels and shepherds during dress rehearsals for a telling of the Christmas story at St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic School in Delray Beach. Jerry Lower/The Coastal
Brandon Martel, 15, relies on his Labradoodle, Sophie, to
help him during stressful times when he is prone to having
seizures from an as-yet-undiagnosed condition.
Photos by Libby Volgyes/The Coastal Star
By Arden Moore
Little did Brandon Martel r
By Tim O’Meilia
For the second time in two years, the Manalapan Town Commission rejected bids from outside agencies to handle the town’s police dispatch services.
Both neighboring Ocean Ridge and Lantana submitted proposals well under the town’s $2
By Tim O’Meilia
Before Manalapan Commissioner Howard Roder could make a motion to fire Town Manager Linda Stumpf, the other commissioners quickly gave her a 5-1 vote of confidence Dec. 18.
“I want to consider other candidates for the position o
By Tim O’Meilia
Kathy Clark had been a police dispatcher for the Boca Raton Police Department for 18 years and was taking college courses to become a paralegal when her dad asked her for help.
Could she fill in as a dispatcher in Manalapan? Her fat
The Delray Beach Preservation Trust dedicated its message to the future in December, a time capsule that won’t be opened for a century.
The capsule, which is housed in the lobby of City Hall and celebrates the city’s centennial, contains photos of Del
