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Debate continues on who pays for no-see-um control: Ocean Ridge

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on May 28, 2009 at 7:42

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

Fire station staffing will depend on new property appraisals: Gulf Stream, Delray Beach

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on May 27, 2009 at 21:00

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

Compromise for bigger beach houses set at 750 sq. ft.: Manalapan

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on May 27, 2009 at 21:00

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

It’s hurricane season. Be ready when warning is issued

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on May 27, 2009 at 21:00

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,

Intracoastal mangroves to be protected by breakwaters: Ocean Ridge, Delray Beach

Posted by Mary Kate Leming on May 27, 2009 at 21:00

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

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