Ryan Heavyside builds custom surfboards and sells Nomad brand clothing at the shop that has been in his family for 55 years. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
When Nomad Surf Shop owner Ryan Heavyside was approached about being the subject of a Meet Your
ABOVE: Open tennis champion Coco Gauff leads her hometown parade as grand marshal of the annual holiday parade down Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach. For her next big event, Gauff, 19, is entered in the Australian Open, which starts Jan. 14 in Melbour
The barricades to protect people from traffic on Federal Highway could be staggered to soften their appearance and be painted or covered with murals. Rendering provided
By Mary Hladky
The city has started work to improve the appearance and safety of
By Mary Thurwachter
Lantana is the 2023 Small Municipality winner in Palm Beach County’s Read for the Record event on Oct. 26. A certificate proclaiming the victory was presented during the Town Council’s Dec. 11 meeting.
To achieve the distinction,
Lifesaving award — Police Chief Sean Scheller presented a Life Saving Award to Officer Arianna Morris during the Dec. 11 Town Council meeting. The July 29 rescue involved a non-verbal 7-year-old boy who had lacerated his wrist in an accident at home
By Steve Plunkett
The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District will spend up to $10,000 to get copies of public records from the city for its fight to stop sending millions of dollars each year to the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency.
Briann H
By Steve Plunkett
The year 2023 was not a good one for the nonprofit group originally founded to support the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton.
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City hopes to improve streets for all — The City Council on Nov. 28 adopted a Complete Streets policy that will guide planning, design, operation and maintenance of streets so that they will meet the needs of motorists, pedestrians, cyclists and tran
Nicole Von Paris looks inside the sailboat Tayana that washed ashore in Delray Beach. Police spokesman Ted White said the 41-foot sailboat, first spotted on Dec. 15, is thought to have lost its mooring in the multiday storm that hit the area with hea
ABOVE: A private jet taxis past part of the 135-foot-long mural that shows air traffic control and a burrowing owl. BELOW: The toothy expression on the front of a fighter plane pays homage to the years the airfield was a military training ground. It
The Subculture Group is seeking approval to paint murals on the east and south sides of its future coffee shop on northbound Federal Highway in Delray Beach. Rendering provided
A place for art? — The City Commission has agreed to review the Public Ar
By Steve Plunkett
Paul Lyons Jr., a seven-year veteran of the Gulf Stream Town Commission, vacated his seat on Dec. 8 with a simple “I resign, effective tomorrow” followed by a round of emotional thank-you’s to his colleagues on the dais, the town’s
By Larry Barszewski
A broken valve has blocked the flow of water to the fire suppression system at the Villas of Ocean Ridge, which is now relying on human eyes to look out for potential fires until the town is able to repair the valve.
Town commissi
By Steve Plunkett
Briny Breezes has a new mayor, Ted Gross, and for the second time, some controversy — at least from Gross’ would-be challenger — about how residents qualify to run for office.
It also has a new Town Council president, Liz Loper; a
By Tao Woolfe
A developer from Greensburg, Kentucky, has been selected to design a new U.S. post office for downtown Boynton Beach.
Maple Tree Investments — one of two developers seeking to design and build a 3,490-square- foot retail post office at
By Rich Pollack
With a Feb. 1 meeting hosted by county leaders just weeks away, Highland Beach condo presidents from nearly two dozen buildings gathered last month to brainstorm a strategy aimed at stopping the county’s long-delayed development of Mi
LEFT: Jakob Thompson, a 17-year-old student at Santaluces High School, leaps into the water flowing out the Boynton Inlet to rescue a woman who was being swept out to sea in November. Video and photo provided
By Mary Hladky
Fed up with car thefts in their neighborhoods and what they claim is insufficient police action to stop them, Golden Triangle and Golden Harbour residents have mounted a campaign to press the Boca Raton Police Department to ramp up enf
The completion date to replace the El Rio Canal bridge on West Palmetto Park Road has been pushed back once again.
The project, which started in 2021 and was to be completed in the fall of 2022, is now expected to be finished sometime in the spring,
Utilities Director Poonam Kalkat praised the quick work to fix and clean up the leak at the east end of Boynton Beach Boulevard. But the state is investigating the leak and could penalize the city. Tao Woolfe/The Coastal Star
By Tao Woolfe
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