By Thom Smith
Once known as sleepy Delray, it now seems like the town that never sleeps. A coupleof months ago we had Savor The Avenue, with diners at “long tables” down the middle of Atlantic Avenue. Then the Delray Beach Film Festival — the li
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“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
— Mark Twain
Freelance writer and frequent Coastal Star contributor Ron Hayes posted the above quote on his Facebook page to recognize the 100th anniversary o
By Tim O’Meilia
His business is called “Kenny Brown’s Trapping and Wildlife Rescue.” His truck says, “Pelican and Wildlife Rescue and Release.”
The kids call him “Noah.” Or “Dr. Doolittle.” Some call him “the pelican man.” Fishermen often call h
By Mary Kate Leming
Former part-time Manalapan resident Tom Petters was sentenced to 50 years in prison bya federal court in Minneapolis in early April. The sentence mandates that the least time he could spend behind bars, with credit for good be
By Angie Francalancia
Federal authorities have seized the Ocean Ridge home and another home owned by JosephRomano, who has been accused of resurrecting a $40 million boiler room scam he originated on Long Island with his Delray Beach-based Collec
By Mike Readling
When Palm Beach County installed 62, 1- to 2-ton pods just offshore from Ocean Ridge last year, the idea was to provide a breakwater for the beachrenourishment project it had in the works.
One of the byproducts of that venture was
By Margie Plunkett
Ocean Ridge’s first art exhibit was so successful that even the paintingCommissioners voted to buy at half price was sold. An enamored resident purchased the seascape by Max Matteson instead, but the town won, too — the sale br
By Antigone Barton
“A stack of letters,” as Mayor William Koch put it — 17 then, with three more onthe way —addressed to Town Hall in April may be the most correspondence in recent times to demand Gulf Stream commissioners’ attention, and was all
By Tim O’Meilia
The South Palm Beach Town Council may soon be negotiating with its small policeforce over pay and benefits.
The Palm Beach County Police Benevolent Association has filed with the state’s PublicEmployee Relations Commission to re
By Tim O’Meilia
The Imperial House might not wash into the sea this hurricane season after all.
Construction of most of a new $500,000 seawall to protect the 58-unit cooperative fromunrelenting erosion was completed just as turtle-nesting season
By Kelly Wolfe
Barry University’s board of trustees unanimously agreed to sell its publicbroadcasting radio station WXEL to Classical South Florida for $3.85 million in April.
And although the announcement was made in a celebratory fashi
By Antigone Barton
The hour was late and the Boynton Beach commissioners bleary-eyed enough to decidepostponing a discussion on budget matters was a good idea.
Still, the decision to give a symbolic nod to historical preservation by OK’ing$18,0
By Margie Plunkett
Seawall construction won’t threaten the sea turtles this year: The state turned down Lantana’s request to build after the start of turtle season, pushing back the start date to Nov. 1.
The town instructed its manager, Michael B
For recipes, see Mother's Day Brunch
By Jan Norris
Nanci Moore’s Mix It Up class at Gulf Stream School simply can’t wait for Mother’sDay. Nine students in the after-school cooking class have a special breakfast surprise in store for their
By Thomas R. Collins
My mom was on a gurney, tubes everywhere, strangers leaning over her, machinesmaking beeps and whirs, fluorescent lights shining cold and bright.
When I got to the emergency room that day six months ago, after my mom turned bl
By Greg Stepanich
The arts season for 2009-10 is in the books, but that doesn’t mean we’re all goingto be reduced to flipping on the A/C and watching videos of cats playing piano apps on an iPad (cute as that is).
Longtime observers of the cultu
By Ron Hayes
County Pocket —When they saw the American flag athalf-staff over Surf Road, the painting of Ponce De Leon against the pole, his
neighbors knew Elvin Priest was gone.
A resident of the county pocket since
the late 1960s, Mr. Priest di
By Emily J. Minor
DELRAY BEACH — Lisl Bischof Ekvall, anative of Vienna, Austria, who fell in love with a U.S. Navy man after the war
and moved to the states — died April 17 after a sudden hospitalization. She was
85.
Mrs.
Ekvall married her hus
By Antigone Barton
Gulf Stream — When thieves took a boy’s wheelchair, the story made the news.
Louise
Mallory’s response didn’t make the news, but the child got a new wheelchair.
That
was the way Mrs. Mallory wanted it, Frank Giacalone, her
By Emily J. Minor
Gulf Stream — Shirley Bennett, a Gulf Stream resident who was loved for her easysmile, sense of humor and outstanding Key lime pie, died March 31 in the hospice unit at Bethesda Memorial Hospital after a very recent series of
