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
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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
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
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.
T
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
Exotic car fans enjoyed the view at the
Concours D’ Elegance. Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Steve Constantine is a car guy through and through.
“I’ve been a car guy ever since I was old enough to know about cars,” says Constanti
Former Boca Raton Mayor Bill Smith and his wife Bonny,
were decked out in matching shirts at the George Snow Scholarship
Fund’s 19th Annual Caribbean Cowboy Ball on Jan. 28.
Jason Walton, chief of staff at Lynn University, above,
and Jessica Corn
Kelly Barrette and Raymond Jones distribute signs around their coastal Delray Beach neigh-borhood to protest the planned upscale recovery houses for people with drug and alcohol addictions. Photo by Jerry Lower
By Tim Pallesen and Antigone Barton
As
By Thomas R. Collins
The decision by Caron Treatment Centers to spend millions of dollars to buy two large houses near the ocean in Delray Beach is designed to expand the organization’s addiction-treatment offerings.
It could also be seen as a shrew
Rich Draper, co-owner of the Ice Cream Club, reminisces with Kathy Willoughby at his Manalapan shop. Photo by Jerry Lower
By Ron Hayes
Here’s the big scoop.
Thirty years ago, two former fraternity brothers from the University of Illinois at Ur
The big bully. The mean kid. We always knew them when we saw them.
Generations of parents helped their children face the school bully, and surviving their attacks came to seem a rite of passage to adulthood.
Somehow, though, the tough-it-out
