South County homes and businesses are still leaking taxable value, but this year it’s closer to a dribble than a dam break.
While eight of nine coastal towns lost more than 5 percent of their taxable real estate value in 2009, only Mana
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South County homes and businesses are still leaking taxable value, but this year it’s closer to a dribble than a dam break.
While eight of nine coastal towns lost more than 5 percent of their taxable real estate value in 2009, only Mana
Tami Pleasanton (left) and Kim Jones remember growing up in the county pocket. Photo by Jerry Lower
By Ron Hayes
In the summer of 1969, a registered nurse with two young daughters to raise started looking for someplace to live closer to her job at Bet
What to do about the three weathered, rusting FPL electrical boxes in South Palm Beach that keep the street lights on along the town’s 5/8-mile strip of A1A?
Why, ask the town’s unofficial artist-in-residence Penny Davidson, who, conven
By Steve Plunkett
The folks planning a park at Ocean Strand want a few creative ideas on what to put there.
The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District, which owns the coastal parcel, launched a new website, www.mybocaparks.org, which it hopes t
Seven years after it was put on the selling block, WXEL-FM finally sold to Classical South Florida after the Federal Communications Commission approved a deal with Barry University May 16.
The 40-year-old station, start
By Thom Smith
For decades the family yacht tied up at local marinas, the better for dad to entertain big clients and the family to enjoy a little respite from Northeast winters.
Malcolm Forbes died in 1990, but the wining and dining aboard Highlander
An item in Around the Town in the May issue of The Coastal Star mentioned Boca’s Walk of Recognition, but incorrectly called it the Wall of Recognition. Presented by the Boca Raton Historical Society, the Walk of Recognition at Royal Palm Place recog
By Steve Plunkett
The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District has given the city $2 million to help pay for a 2010 beach renourishment project that fell victim to federal budget-cutting.
Boca Raton officials expected to get $5.3 million from the
By Mary Thurwachter
For 20 years, my husband and I have spent a considerable amount of time traveling the Sunshine State. We have been everywhere from the Panhandle to the Keys, staying in homey bed-and-breakfasts, intimate boutique hotels, large
Briny Breezes has a new clerk, and she’s both experienced and eager to work — driving north from Broward County a few days a week because she says she likes working for small government.
Shari Canada doesn’t live in Briny or own prope
Christine Carton
By Angie Francalancia
It was Christine Carton’s love of adventure, appreciation for self-improvement and admiration of Japanese artw
Arthur Jaffe’s passion is books. Photo by Tim Stepien
By Ron Hayes
One lazy summer day when he was a boy, Arthur Jaffe wandered over to the Carnegie Library in Butler, Pa., and asked the helpful librarian to recommend a book.
“She gave
By Paula Detwiller
They called her “the holdout.”
The year was 1997, and the city of Delray Beach wanted to take Pat Healy-Golembe’s historic house by eminent domain to expand a parking garage near the beach. She said “no sale.”
The developer proposed
If town commissioners had term limits, would there be enough candidates to fill all seven seats?
Commissioner David Cheifetz answers yes and asked his colleagues to consider limits at their May meeting.
“For a long time the
The gatehouse at Point Manalapan may be rescued by an unlikely knight: the man whose request to remove Australian pines along A1A prompted a review of town policy on exotic vegetation.
Point residents came to the Town Commission’s
Kathleen Dailey Weiser
By Steve Plunkett
Town commissioners balked at signing a contract with Interim Town Manager Kathleen Dailey Weiser but this time around had no
Changes to state growth management laws passed during the latest legislative session have area watchdogs and officials wary of the prospects for development in and around coastal barrier island towns.
The changes, pushed th
By Thom Smith
For decades the family yacht tied up at local marinas, the better for dad to entertain big clients and the family to enjoy a little respite from Northeast winters.
Malcolm Forbes died in 1990, but the wining and dining aboard Highlande
The Boynton Beach Woman’s Club has reluctantly offered to deed its historic, 85-year-old building to the city because it can no longer afford the $70,000 annual operating budget.
The all-volunteer club supports itself by renting the buildi
