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By Steve Plunkett
A $750,000 proposal to revamp Town Hall would allow people to get from the main lobby to commission chambers without going outside and consolidate the Police Department at the rear of the building.
Architect Mark Marsh of Palm Beac
By Tim O’Meilia
Until now, beach protection was an exercise in putting a jigsaw puzzle together. Everyone had a piece but maybe that piece didn’t fit with their neighbor’s.
South Palm Beach condo owners fretted over how to get groins and breakwaters
Businesses at 5011 N. Ocean Blvd. can stay at least until June 2014.
Town commissioners decided to grant building owners Orlando and Liliane Sivitilli one extra year before they must move their tenants and convert the building to townhomes. The Sivit
By Steve Plunkett
Roads in Point Manalapan will get their first new coat of asphalt since the 1960s.
Delray Beach-based Hardrives Inc. submitted the winning bid of $293,140 to resurface all the roads on the Point. Four other companies bid $325,000 t
Dr. Thomas Balkany is a cochlear implant surgeon and researcher. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Paula Detwiller
Dr. Thomas Balkany of coastal Delray Beach decided at age 12 that he wanted a career in medicine. It happened the day his mother took
Noah Yablong, 23, is Paralympics bound. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Emily J. Minor
When he was a kid back in Fort Wayne, Ind., limping along all of a sudden, out of the blue, forced to give up all the sports he loved, Noah Yablong never dream
Kate, the leatherback sea turtle who has a problem nesting,
heads back into the Atlantic Ocean after a failed attempt to
lay eggs along the beach in Ocean Ridge. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
Leatherback turtle facts | See photos | Watch video
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By Margie Plunkett
Motorists will have hundreds of new parking options each evening and on weekends in Delray Beach.
Mayor Woodie McDuffie got the word that the city can open the County Courthouse parking garage for use after hours seven days a week
Bill Koch and his wife, Mary Lou, with polo stars
Del Carroll, Buddy Combs, Russell Firestone and William Mayer.
By Ron Hayes
If the people of Gulf Stream remember William F. Koch Jr. as lovingly as he remembered the town, history will have been
Pamela Goodman
By Tim Pallesen
Pamela Goodman fought hard for redistricting as a League of Women Voters leader.
So the Gulf Stream resident says it makes sense for her to become a candidate now that the boundary for a coastal South County state Hous
By Tim O’Meilia
Rex Taylor’s seventh anniversary as South Palm Beach town manager is this month and to mark the occasion his employers will review his performance for the first time.
But not before he does it first. Then next year, the council will
By Mary Thurwachter
For the second time in seven months, Lantana plans to splurge on a waterfront land purchase on the west side of the Intracoastal Waterway just north of Ocean Avenue. The town will spend $965,000 for lots at 206, 210 and 302 N. Lak
Ann Rutherford of Boca Raton brought her charitable activism
to another level with her book Flags of Freedom, honoring the men
and women who serve in the armed forces. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
What does being an American mean to you?
That’s t
Kathleen Weiser
By Steve Plunkett
The newest members of the Town Commission were at opposite ends last month when recommending a salary boost for the almost-as-new town manager.
Vice Mayor Ron Brown praised Town Manager Kathleen Weiser and pr
Nicky Mill with dad Andy and a permit fish he
caught on a fly rig in Cuba last year. Photo courtesy Andy Mill
By Thom Smith
It was a high school tennis tournament, more than 40 years ago, in Pompano Beach. The final score was 6-0, 6-0. The
Charles A. McCutcheon
By Christine Davis
BOCA RATON — Charles A. McCutcheon, 83, of Boca Raton, who served as Palm Beach County sheriff and Boca Raton police chief, died at home on June 19.
His long career in law enforcement began as a patrol
By Steve Plunkett
The Lake Wyman restoration project, dropped with a 4-1 vote by the Boca Raton City Council, could still be brought back to life.
“It’s never actually dead,” said Daniel Bates, the county’s deputy director of Environmental Reso
Frank J. Devine
By Ron Hayes
DELRAY BEACH — After retiring from a distinguished career in the U.S. Foreign Service, Frank Devine brought his diplomatic skills to Palm Beach County, first as an adjunct professor at Palm Beach Atlantic College, then
By Angie Francalancia
The burglars use rental cars, rented in someone else’s name. They often come up from Broward County, and have the cars’ windows tinted extra dark. Their target: Boca Raton.
But after seeing home and auto burglaries spike i
