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Jay Van Vechten and Zack Rice have been making plans for the
Boca Raton Boating & Beach Bash for several months. 

Mary Thurwachter/The Coastal Star

By Mary Thurwachter

When Jay Van Vechten envisioned an annual boating and beach event for people

Candidates for Seat D on the City Council are running for a three-year term. A March 27 runoff will be held in the event of a tie. Constance Scott won a second two-year term to Seat C after challenger Bill Trinka, a retired firefighter, dropped out.

More than 500 guests attended the YMCA of South Palm Beach County’s 10th 
Annual Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 9 at the Boca Raton Resort & Club to see keynote
speaker and daytime TV celebrity Regis Philbin. Pictured are Philbin (left) and
Mary Jo and R

Candidates are seeking three-year terms on the city commission in two races. * designates winner

Boca Bacchanal 2nd Annual Iron Chef Competition

Boca Raton Resort & Club

Cindy Krebsbach and Amy Kazma, members of the first-place-winning
team Cendyn, celebrate their victory  at the Feb. 10 event.  

Marie Speed, judge; Allison Lane, Iron Chef Co

By Jan Norris

Boca Raton’s mayor and her staff got a leg up on movie-goers at the new iPic theater slated to open this summer in Mizner Park.

Hamid Hashemi presented Susan Whelchel and a few council members with their own monogrammed pillows and blan

The flower beds of Gail Brown’s Delray Beach house are
filled with 1,400 New Guinea impatiens. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

By Antigone Barton

Every October, for each of the last 20 years, Gail Brown has surrounded her white-pillared, white-trim

Milton’s Grooming Parlor in Manalapan incorporates images of Milton.

By Arden Moore

Martha Stewart inspires many with her cuisine and knack for home décor. But for Maurici Luz, it’s all about the dogs. Specifically, Stewart’s eye-catching French b

By Steve Plunkett

The town has offered to settle former Town Manager Dale Sugerman’s lawsuit out of court and is waiting for his answer.

“At this point, all I can tell you is a lawsuit is going on, but there’s always conversations in any lawsuit a

Debbi Lahr Lawlor

Debbi Lahr Lawlor, a long-time resident who was chairwoman of Boca Festival Days for the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce, has been named operations director for the 33-year-old Boca Raton Children’s Museum.

In the newly cre

By Steve Plunkett

Changing town attorneys may save the town upward of $30,000 a year if January’s legal bill is any guide.

New attorney Glen Torcivia billed Highland Beach $6,396 for 32.8 hours of work in his first month on the job. The total is jus

Stephanie Miskew of coastal Delray Beach raises a glass
inside the wine room at the Seagate Hotel & Spa, where one of the Boca Bacchanal events will be held. Miskew is general
chairman. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

Steph

St. Lucy Catholic Church member Marilyn Rubin (left)
of Highland Beach enjoys the Xpressions 2012 40th Annual
Fashion Show & Luncheon with her guest Audrey Miller. The
show was held at the Delray Beach Club on Feb. 18. 

By Tim Pallesen

The social l

By Steve Plunkett

All planning and design efforts for a park at Ocean Strand have been stopped.

The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District, which owns the oceanfront 14.85 acres just south of Spanish River Park, ordered a halt to Ocean Strand wor

Residents of the Boca Cove/Camino Cove neighborhood are on guard after two burglaries on the south side of Russell Drive.

Police alerted residents via email following the second burglary. 

Both incidents happened on a late Saturday afternoon or early

The Boca Raton Historical Society is offering snippets
of pioneer Frank Chesebro’s diaries as tweets. Photos provided

By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley

Frank Chesebro moved to Boca Raton from Michigan in 1903. He planted his land, worked with a crew of A

Charles Kraus

By Liz Best

BOCA RATON — Charles Kraus made a difference in his native New Jersey as a prominent Republican, banker and Bergen County roads chief. He also made a difference when he retired to the Esplanade condominiums in Boca Rato

By Hap Erstein

Boca Raton’s Caldwell Theatre has been in a financial bind ever since it took out a $6 million mortgage on its new theater in 2008. But it sees an end to its difficulties, with an imminent filing for Chapter 11 reorganization bankrupt

Land-use planning consultant Charlie Siemon lives and works at Mizner Park.
 He helped create the original vision in the early 1990s for the mixed-use downtown
development, and has overseen Festival of the Arts Boca since its debut in 2007.  
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Roberta Jurney (left), Peggy Kelleher, Dr. Maria M. Vallejo, Lynda Levitsky,
Bobbi Horwich, Lexye Aversa, Renee Plevy, Sherry Frankel, Jacie Keeley
and Patricia Turner. Photo provided

Outstanding local women will be honored with portraits during th