Randy ‘the Kite Man’ Lowe with one of his collection. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Paula Detwiller
Today it’s the 90-foot squid — swaying, nodding, riding the breeze above Delray’s public beach. Tomorrow it might be the 150-foot cob
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By Ron Hayes
Every week or so, a gold, 1971 Oldsmobile Cutlass pulls up to the Helping Hands food center on Northwest First Court, where the driver unloads a box of papayas gathered from the trees in his yard.
The Oldsmobile Cutlass has 169,000
Members of the Brotherhood Ride honored the 11 emergency responders who died in the line of duty last year in Florida by riding bicycles through the state, covering more than 550 miles in eight days. The ride began June 3 in Naples, traveled up the
Dale Sugerman
By Steve Plunkett
Former Town Manager Dale Sugerman ended the Highland Beach chapter of his career and started a new one the next day 28 miles to the north. Highland Beach commissioners grudgingly approved paying Sugerman and his attorn
Ted Smith, Delray Subaru manager (left), and Roy Timothy Young, director and president of Delray Subaru attend the June 28 ribbon cutting of their new Subaru Showroom on Federal Highway in Delray Beach. Pets were invited. Photo provided
Emcee Kait Parker, NewsChannel 5 meteorologist, with outgoing United Way Chairman and coastal Delray Beach resident Art Menor. Photo provided
The Saint Joseph’s Episcopal School Boys Tennis Team won first place in the Gold Coast Tennis League with a record of six wins and one loss for the Boynton Beach School. Nick Albino and John Tierney were the No. 1 doubles team and went undefeated 7-0
Landscape Chairman Carol Rice shows a group
what is on the back of her T-shirt as she leads a tour
through the Boca Raton Garden Club for National
Garden Week. Club members also installed officers.
The back of Rice's T-shirt reads ‘Dirt Gardener.’
Students and instructors give the hang loose sign during
Nomad’s inaugural Summer Surf Camp. Photo provided
Nomad Surf Shop’s much anticipated Summer Surf Camp was cause for great excitement in my family. The camp impressed me with its relaxed app
Greg Young (from left), Becky Walsh, Sylvie Bergeron, Headmaster Joseph Zaluski, Maureen Reuter and Heidi Sargeant hold a check for $210,000 at the Gulf Stream School’s year-end Auxiliary Luncheon. The auxiliary supports the school through major even
John Connelly III of Gulf Stream. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Steve Pike
Athletes are often judged on two things: talent and IQ, the latter of which has nothing to do with test scores. Here’s all you need to know about John Connelly III’s
A detail of the wallpaper at the Ritz-Carlton’s resort club
lounge shows dapper monkeys sipping martinis. Photo provided
By Mary Thurwachter
What could be more fun than a barrel of monkeys? How about a swanky club lounge that mingles chic mid-cent
Carol DeChant has made a recording of 16 of the 50 eulogies
featured in her audio-book Great American Catholic Eulogies. Photo provided
By Tim Pallesen
An Ocean Ridge writer who spent seven years searching for eulogies that were given for ins
Norman Gardner with a sampling of his sculptures that
depict women with babies in the womb. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Mary Jane Fine
The theme here is not a subtle one. Room after room is pregnant with meaning. Nearly every sculpture, every
By Paula Detwiller
Variety is the spice of life, so how about spicing up your fitness routine this summer?
Experts say that when you do the same old workout week after week, your body adapts and hits a fitness plateau. You also run the risk of over
Parishioners fill their plates during a Memorial Day picnic
at the home of the Rev. Georgia Hillesland, pastor of Boynton
Beach Congregational Church. Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Tim Pallesen
The pastor’s home has become a festive p
By Greg Stepanich
The closing in April of the Caldwell Theatre Co. after money problems forced it to dim its footlights was a blow to more than the company itself and its audiences.
It also was a shock to the whole South Florida theater system, aki
Arden Moore gives Cleo a hug after her terrier mix helped set
three world surf records in competitions on the west coast.
Photo courtesy of Casey Dean
By Arden Moore
I grew up near a small lake in northwest Indiana where the only wave action came
Funeral services for former Palm Beach County Sheriff Charles A. McCutcheon have been scheduled for 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 23, with a Mass at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Boca Raton. On Friday, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., there will be visiting h
By Steve Plunkett
Mayor William Koch Jr., who served as Gulf Stream’s top elected official for more than half his life, has died. He was 91.
Despite being a very public servant, Mayor Koch was a “very private and humble man,” the town said about his
