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Summer Camp Guide Sampler, Take 2

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on May 6, 2009 at 8:26

NOTE: Here is an updated summer camps schedule, with additional listings. With so many summer camps offered in our area, we selected those located between the Boca Raton Inlet and the Port of Palm Beach. We kept most of our listings east of I-95. Ple

Learning to slow down

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on May 1, 2009 at 19:03

I drive fast. Not too fast — I don’t get tickets. But I do push the limits. I commuted to West Palm Beach on A1A for many years, and consider myself lucky that my job required only a couple years of I-95 commuting — to Hollywood and Miami Beach. Now

Meet Your Neighbor— 10 Questions with Mary Katharine: Gulf Stream

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on May 1, 2009 at 18:30

In 2002, newly divorced and with five daughters, Mary Katharine “took the high way,” so to speak, giving a whole new meaning to the phrase, “You go, girl.” She could have started therapy, she said, thinking back, but instead, she chose to become a r

Taking a stroll along barefoot mailman's route

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on May 1, 2009 at 18:30

By Emily J. Minor The original barefoot mailman probably didn’t have a microphone headset or bottled water or a blue shirt from Macy’s.

And he probably didn’t meet up at the Ritz-Carlton after his route, sitting with the folks who are celebrating P

Police chief honored for deaf-services efforts: Manalapan

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on May 1, 2009 at 18:30

By Emily J. Minor There are people you like and people you love. And then there are people like Manalapan Police Chief Clay Walker — the kind you’d pretty much like to clone.

“He’s not just doing this because it’s the law,” said Joan Gindlesperger

Obituary—Elizabeth G. Beinecke: Gulf Stream

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on May 1, 2009 at 18:29

By Emily J. Minor Gulf Stream — Elizabeth G. Beinecke, a generous benefactor of the arts and the environment who had a winter home in Gulf Stream for many years, died April 14 in her sleep. She was 89. Known as Betty to her friends and family, Mrs.

Manalapan weighs allowing larger beach houses

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on May 1, 2009 at 18:28

By Margie Plunkett Manalapan commissioners bumped up the size of beach houses to 750 square feet in a preliminary vote that compromised between the current allowance and a proposed increase to 1,000 square feet. An ordinance that encompasses this an

Site plan approved for mixed-use downtown project: Delray Beach

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on May 1, 2009 at 18:23

By Margie Plunkett Commissioners approved the site plan for the $250 million Atlantic Plaza II project — two blocks of living, office and retail space on eight acres downtown — at a crowded public hearing April 7. Residents there voiced support for

End of sewage’s ocean-ward trek took activism, work, money: Delray Beach

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on May 1, 2009 at 18:09

By Thomas R. Collins It ended simply: Somebody turned a valve and presto, no more greenish-brown plume of water gushing from the South Central Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant into the ocean a mile off the Delray Beach coast. Instead, that water

Seeing motherhood at its most primeval

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on May 1, 2009 at 18:04

The following is an edited excerpt from a letter written by Kate Livingstone to her mother, Barbara Keenan, who shared it with The Coastal Star. It describes the rare, before-dawn encounter Livingstone and her family had with a green turtle on the be

Atlantic Plaza II: Delray Beach

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on May 1, 2009 at 18:00

Atlantic Plaza II Location: Between East Atlantic Avenue and Northeast First Street, and between Northeast Sixth Avenue and Veterans Park. Description: A mixed-use development built in three phases on more than 8 acres. The development is in six buil

A Coastal Star of the Month—Call her 'Granny Nature": Delray Beach

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on May 1, 2009 at 18:00

Alieda Riley When Lt. j.g. Alieda E. Nelson, communications officer, married Lt. Cmdr. Melville “Hank” Riley in 1946, they honeymooned in Cuba, then moved to the Riley family home on South Ocean Boulevard in Delray Beach. Mrs. Riley Sr. had built th

INTERFAITH21: Uniting people of faith, or no particular faith, in the 21st century

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on May 1, 2009 at 18:00

By C.B. Hanif A different way of thinking about the Bible — namely through the lens of modern biblical scholarship informed by reason — is the premise of Thomas G. O’Brien III’s 15-week course at Bethesda-by-the-Sea. Each class is a treasure, thanks

Wood boardwalk in works for park: Boynton Beach, Ocean Ridge

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on May 1, 2009 at 17:58

By Linda Haase When the Oceanfront Park boardwalk was replaced with recycled plastic in 1986, city officials hailed it as the latest and greatest in the green movement. But, as they say, you can’t fool Mother Nature. The harsh winds and corrosive sa

Obituary—James Kevin Campbell: Manalapan

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on May 1, 2009 at 17:54

Manalapan — James Kevin Campbell of Manalapan and Charlevoix, Mich., died Saturday, April 18, 2009, at JFK Medical Center in Atlantis. He was 90. Mr. Campbell was born in Detroit, where he spent many years associated with the automobile industry. He

Obituary—Elizabeth Annette Kunik: Delray Beach

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on May 1, 2009 at 17:53

By Ron Hayes DELRAY BEACH — A seasonal resident for more than 20 years, Elizabeth Annette Kunik passed away April 9. Born March 6, 1927, in Shenandoah, Penn., Mrs. Kunik attended the Philadelphia General Hospital School of Nursing Cadette Corps prog

Obituary —James W. Davant: Delray Beach

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on May 1, 2009 at 17:52

By Mary Katherine Stump Delray Beach — James W. Davant, retired CEO of PaineWebber Group, died in Delray Beach on April 17 at the age of 93. Mr. Davant led PaineWebber, now a part of UBS Financial Services, from 1964 to 1980. Mr. Davant was a former

No-see-um battle returns to Town Commission: Ocean Ridge

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on May 1, 2009 at 17:50

By Margie Plunkett The town is being eaten alive. No-see-ums are out in force, driving residents indoors. “I haven’t talked to anyone in Ocean Ridge who hasn’t been bothered by no-see-ums,” Robert Happ told Ocean Ridge commissioners in April. “It’s

At 75, Hand's remains ‘Delray Beach 100 percent’

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on May 1, 2009 at 17:39

By Cynthia Thuma Even a village by the sea needs office supplies. And so, since it began life as a book shop three-quarters of a century ago, Hand’s Office Supply, in the heart of Delray Beach, has endeavored to serve locals’ and visitors’ needs. Fr

Fire station loses rescue transport because of budget constraints: Gulf Stream, Delray Beach

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on May 1, 2009 at 17:36

By Margie Plunkett Delray Beach Fire Station No. 2 — Gulf Stream’s main station — no longer has a rescue transport to accompany its fire engine to calls, the result of a temporary staff change meant to ensure the safety of the station’s firefighters

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