Publisher Jerry Lower
By Jerry Lower, Publisher
Our coastal community is constantly influenced by the changing seasons.
In autumn we can count on hurricane season giving us a few scares and autumnal tides to swell the Intracoastal Waterway, with s
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Boca Raton Fire Department’s Captain Ray Lintner describes a few of the firefighting tools found on a firetruck at Fire Station 3 at 100 S. Ocean Blvd. His tour was part of the department’s city-wide open house May 12. The department has 207 certi
By Tim O’Meilia
A year ago, Manalapan Mayor Basil Diamond claimed South Palm Beach could save a half million dollars a year — give or take $100,000 — by letting Manalapan provide police and dispatch service.
South Palm Beach Mayor Donald Clayman di
By Steve Plunkett
Manalapan police are confident patrolling the Point but feel unequipped to fight crime on the ocean.
The “threat profile” in the ocean zone has changed over the years, Town Manager Linda Stumpf and Police Chief Carmen Mattox told t
By Mary Thurwachter
It’s been a year since Highland Beach Commissioners voted to hire Kathleen Weiser as town manager, which means it’s time for a performance evaluation and discussion of a merit increase. Those topics were on the agenda for the tow
By Tim O’Meilia
Six months after a win-win truce was declared in the struggle over the future of a six-acre Gulf Stream estate and the demolition of its 75-year-old mansion, a “hole in the sky” has re-opened the battle.
Neighbors of the soon-to-be b
By Tim Pallesen
Gulf Stream’s bill for fire protection from Delray Beach will jump 35 percent to $428,198 this year.
“It’s a result of annexation. Delray Beach is providing additional service because our land mass has increased,” Gulf Stream tow
Boynton Beach to hear PBSO proposal at 6:30 p.m. on June 5.
By Angie Francalancia
In the roughly 18 months since the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office pulled its parks deputies and moved its marine patrol headquarters from the Boynton Inlet, police
Greater Federated Women’s Club installation of officers
The Bridge Hotel, Boca Raton
Guests from Ocean Ridge at the event included
Joanne Gimmy, Donna Hutchins and Betsy Polhamus.Photos by Barbara McCormick
Members of the Greater Federated Women’s C
Golfers practice outside the Hamlet Country Club. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Tim Pallesen
Residents at the Hamlet Country Club have voted overwhelmingly to sell their golf course and clubhouse to the owner of the Seagate Hotel and Spa.
Th
By Antigone Barton
The people who raise and lower the bridges that link the mainland to the island have little in common but the water that flows between them.
Some are retired: Accountants, iron workers, Realtors, fire fighters, truck drivers and a
By Steve Plunkett
A landlord’s request to let businesses stay an additional three years at the south end of town has some commissioners asking whether Ocean Ridge still needs its ban on commercial properties.
“Different commissions, different times
Sally Painter currently has works hanging in Delray Beach at Posh Realty
and in the lobby of the 110 Atlantic office building. She also will
be featured in an exhibit at the Agora Gallery in New York City. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Stopping to
Sporting toy hard-hats to celebrate the project, Tonja Olive,
president of the McCormick Mile Beach Club, signs the agreement
with contractor Mark Becker and board member Jerry Goray (left).
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
Raise the roof.
By Mary Thurwachter
Work on the long-awaited drainage project on Hypoluxo Island began on May 28.
The area has been plagued with flooding for several decades. During budget talks in 2011, the Lantana Town Council decided to dip into its reserves to
St Joseph’s Episcopal School fifth-grader Veronica McCord helps Jewish War vets Irving Schildkraut and Tony Deutsch as they decorate grave sites at the Boynton Beach Memorial Park in honor of Memorial Day. About 30 children and veterans teamed up to
Workers from Kast Construction enjoyed a BBQ lunch
and gift prizes during the “topping off” party for the 4001
Condo being built by Kolter Homes on A1A in Gulf Stream.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Thom Smith
While most in the crowd at the Whit
Katherine Vellis and Michelle Remus enjoy a glass of wine
at Josephine’s Italian Cuisine in Boca Raton. Josephine’s
restaurant was one of the stops on the Check Please! South
Florida Tasting Tour. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Debo
JoAnn T. Urban
By Liz Best
HIGHLAND BEACH— Devoted wife, mother, grandmother, avid reader and beach lover, JoAnn T. Urban, of Highland Beach, died May 4 at Hospice by the Sea. She was 73 years old.
Mrs. Urban was born on Dec. 28, 1938, in New Yor
Betty Lou Shaw
By Ron Hayes
DELRAY BEACH — Betty Lou Shaw, a professional fashion model, devoted wife, loving mother and longtime area resident, died May 23 at her home in the Delray Beach Club apartments.
She was 88 and remained active until
