By Mary Thurwachter, Managing Editor
These are the dog days of summer, and they are sultry.
But if you consider August a month marked by lethargy, inactivity or laziness, think again. Take a look at the Coastal Star community calendar (Pages 15-16
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By Steve Plunkett
The town will dip into reserve funds again to continue providing municipal services without raising property taxes.
Town commissioners tentatively adopted the rollback rate of $3.41 per $1,000 of taxable value at a special meet
Royal Palms are known for their massive trunks and large fronds. Photo by Jerry Lower
By Steve Plunkett
Except for the occasional lawnmower, work at the county’s future Cam D. Milani Park has ended until 2020.
“I’m not passing out a whole lot
By Steve Plunkett
Delray Beach will charge the Town of Gulf Stream about $38,000 a year extra for fire-rescue service to Ballantrae condominiums, the 4001 North Ocean project and other recently annexed parcels.
Delray Beach city commissioners v
By Angie Francalancia
Woolbright U-Gas, one of the rare gas stations that still offers auto service, is closing, soon to be replaced by a PNC Financial Services branch.
PNC has signed a 20-year lease for the land with Anagnostakis Inc., the fa
Jay Whelchel and Mariya-Khristina Shurupova practice for last year’s
Boca’s Ballroom Battle at the Boca Raton Resort & Club. Photo by Jerry Lower
By Thom Smith
“I’ve got a book deal in the works. We’re talking about a made-for-TV movie,” Jay Whel
From bridge to rubble … to reef? Maybe, if financing can be found.
The town of Lantana is trying to persuade county officials to spend an additional $300,000 and use the crumbled parts of the soon-to-be demolished Ocean Avenue Bridge as
Fresh produce is the focus of Ellenville Garden Center, in Boca Raton, that draw s 200 to 300 people to a farmer's market each Thursday evening. Photo by Jerry Lower.
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
Ellenville Garden Center is becoming a community ce
James E. Patrick is a founding shareholder and CEO
of National Healing Corp., founded in 1996. Patrick
received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year
2011 Florida Award in the health care category. Photo by Tim Stepien
By Linda Haase
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How do you persuade someone to spend about $5 million?
Commissioners pondered the question at their July 5 meeting as they heard a staff report on the future of the historic 1927 Boynton Beach High School building.
The city has
By Margie Plunkett
Boca Raton is looking for public suggestions as well as letters of interest from potential developers on uses for the Wildflower property, a vacant piece of waterfront land the city bought for $7.5 million in 2009.
“This is a pre
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Lauren Loricchio
Jennifer Sullivan and Ann Margo Peart attend the fifth annual PR Yak-Yak held July 21 at Crane’s BeachHouse in Delray Beach. Co-hosted by the Gold Coast PR Council and PRSA-Palm Beach, the event drew more than 80 local marketing, media and public re
Realtor Senada Adžem represented the buyers in the purchase of a $10.4 million condo.
Photo by Tim Stepien
By Christine Davis
The One Thousand
By Steve Plunkett
Former Mayor Jim Newill is moving out of town five months after losing his re-election bid to a campaign engineered by his neighbors and former supporters at Villa Costa condominiums. He bought his new condo in Trieste at Boca Rat
Diane Benedetto (left) poses with her mother and
her brother Buddy in a photograph dating from the 1920s.
Photo by Lauren Loricchio. Historical photos courtesy of the Boca Raton Historical Society
By Mary Jane Fine
She looks so grandmothe
Steven V. Maklansky is the new director of the Boca Raton Museum of Art.
Steven V. Maklansky began his new post as director of the Boca Raton Museum of Art in July.
Previously, Maklansky was the execu
