How you can help protect sea turtles
Avoid visiting sea turtle nesting beaches at night, unless accompanied by a guide permitted by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Do not disturb or handle sea turtles, their eggs or their nest
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Loggerhead
Florida's most common sea turtle, the loggerhead is named for its large head. It grows to a length of 3 feet, can weigh 200 to 250 pounds, and is a threatened species.
The loggerhead nests from April to September.
By C.B. Hanif
How prayer would manifest in a municipal setting was my question when I learned that Delray Beach would host a National Day of Prayer observance in front of City Hall. The event, celebrated nationwide on the first Thursday each May, wa
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Watch a slideshow of experts and volunteers on their morning patrol
By Ron Hayes
Bright and early Mother’s Day morning, Joan Lorne climbed aboard an ATV and tore down Gulf Stream beach on a rescue mission for countless mothers who will never know
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MANALAPAN – Town Commissions won’t fund efforts to rid neighborhoods of iguanas, but are compiling a list of licensed contractors residents can call to perform removal services.
An annual town contract would cost $12,000 to $13,000 and would necessi
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By Margie Plunkett
What’s more painful than nasty no-see-um bites? The question of who should pay to get rid of the pest — the town or property owner.
“All of you have beautiful homes and have moved to a beautiful area — and are upset by the bug pro
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Delray Beach Commissioners will determine if they can fully staff Fire Station No. 2 this fiscal year after reviewing county Property Appraiser’s figures, due in on June 1, Mayor McDuffie said at a special commissioners meeting in May. The Commission
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By Margie Plunkett
Residents can build bigger beach houses in Manalapan as a result of the wide-ranging zoning ordinance the Town Commission passed on second reading in May.
After extensive discussion over several meetings, the commission decided t
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By Mary Thurwachter
Those of us who live on barrier islands are vulnerable to the storm surges hurricanes bring. Which means, when a hurricane warning is issued, it’s time to skedaddle.
“We go by the state of Florida guidelines,” says Diane Spears,
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By Mike Readling
After years of watching the thick mangrove shoreline along the Intracoastal Waterway in Boynton Beach become thinner and host to substantially fewer mangroves, Palm Beach County’s Environmental Resource Management department has ta
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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. PleRead more…
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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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 beRead more…
