Parking specialist Scott Aronson was directed to put together a fee-based parking program that will give Delray Beach commissioners a solid starting point on how downtown parking will be managed and funded.
The plan comes after two parking charret
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A group of flamingos takes over a lawn on Island Drive in Delray Beach. The Youth Group at St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church in Boynton Beach is in charge of ‘Flamingo Flocking,’ a fundraising effort for a planned 18-day trip to Scotland this summer. The
By Tim O’Meilia
As the presidential election season rumbles on elsewhere, in south Palm Beach County coastal towns, there’s no place more comforting for an incumbent than a high-backed chair behind the council dais.
Of the 19 seats up for elect
By Rich Pollack
Six months ago, if you called the city of Delray Beach to ask if your wedding could be held on the public beach, the answer would have been a simple no.
Call today and the answer will be yes, weddings are allowed — sort of.
By Angie Francalancia
With continuing uncertainty over emergency services for the coastal towns, Ocean Ridge City Manager Ken Schenck reached out to private ambulance company American Medical Response to investigate options.
It could cost as mu
Ocean Ridge police voted last month to approved a long-awaited contract that will give them an additional $800 toward their medical deductible and a $1,000 salary adjustment.
Ocean Ridge town commissioners are set to vote March 5 on the pact, the
By Angie Francalancia
Ninety days after the Ocean Ridge Town Commission warned its manager he’d have to improve his job performance, most of the commissioners said they were satisfied with Schenck’s improvement.
But Commissioner Zoanne Hennigan
Delray Beach voters can vote for a Seat 2 and a Seat 4 city commission candidate and on a charter amendment when they go to the polls March 13. The charter amendment asks voters whether they want to change commissioners’ and mayor’s length of office
Members of the congregation gather on a chilly Sunday for service at Old School Square.
By Tim Pallesen
Delray Beach’s fastest-growing new church began with a chance meeting in a downtown coffee shop.
The Avenue Church wasn’t intended. It wasn’
By Margie Plunkett
A beach pavilion in disrepair that’s the target of a resident fundraising campaign was rescued from becoming a budget casualty in February, the sole survivor of midyear budget cuts necessitated by a $3.2 million shortfall from t
By Margie Plunkett
Delray Beach is stocking up on garbage carts, getting ready for barrier island residents to have regular curbside trash pickup rather than rear-door service.
The island neighborhood is going to curbside pickup on April 1, whe
Host Beverly Mosher (left) listens as Lunch Bunch members Paula Robinson, Nancy Aceto and Nancy Greenblatt discuss local restauraunts.
By Ron Hayes
The show starts promptly at 8 a.m. as a cameraman holds up four fingers … three… two … one …
“Goo
By Jan Norris
Two years is a long time to go without Pamela’s grapefruit pie, or a plate of Peruvian fish and pepper cream sauce or George’s famous chicken salad.
Once the Ocean Avenue bridge closes, shutting off Lantana from the coastal reside
Three candidates are seeking the two seats on the March 13 ballot in Ocean Ridge. Longtime mayor and commissioner Kenneth Kaleel is not seeking re-election after 17 years in office. The top two vote-getters win the open seats.
* designates winner.
By Emily J. Minor
DELRAY BEACH — Marion Cousins, who ran a meticulous dress shop on Atlantic Avenue back in the day when proper ladies never wore slacks to lunch, died Feb. 13 after a brief hospital stay. She was 100.
Ms. Cousins was born July
Briny Breezes Bazaar volunteer Eric Wolffbrandt (right) tries out one of the phones for sale with fellow volunteers Sue Thaler (center) and Beth Farr (left) at the Briny Breezes Auditorium on Feb. 18. Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal Star
By Angie Francalancia
Boynton Beach’s Community Redevelopment Agency is no closer than it was two months ago to razing the old building at Boynton Marina after county commissioners insisted on a 30-day delay to try to accommodate the building’s fo
By Antigone Barton
The predicament that Singer Islanders described to county commissioners in early February was one familiar to South Palm Beachers: “When I look down from my balcony,” as one resident put it, “all I can see is water.”
The plan
Clarification: In a March story, “Sides agree to plan for crowded property line landscaping,” it may not have been clear that although Manalapan resident E. Peter McLean was asked to serve as an alternate on both the architectural and zoning commiss
Batter up!
It’s spring training time. All around Florida’s Grapefruit League, fans are gathering to cheer on their favorite ballplayers, watch the up-and-comers, and drink in the excitement about another baseball season in America.
Pam Carey of Gu
