By Rich Pollack
Having to spend about $250,000 less than they expected on employee health insurance, Highland Beach commissioners will plow that money back into reserves rather than minimally reduce a tax rate that is already among the lowest in Palm
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach town leaders are hoping 16 condominiums that missed deadlines will soon file structural and electrical inspection reports that were mandated following the Champlain Towers condo collapse in Surfside more than two years
Students from West Boca Raton Community High School pose for a group photo on the last day of their summer break before they headed back to school. Traditionally, students from all of the Boca Raton area’s high schools gather at the park to mark the
Penn-Florida Cos. has obtained a $302.5 million loan in the latest refinancing of its Mandarin Oriental hotel and branded residences project in downtown Boca Raton.
Madison Realty Capital, a real estate private equity firm, provided the loan, which r
City Council members voted unanimously on Aug. 22 to spend as much as $365,000 a year to pay the salaries of assistants who will help them with managing their schedules, policy research, communications and serving constituents.
The money allows for f
By Mary Hladky
Boca Raton is working with Palm Beach County to determine what can be done to improve safety along the stretch of East Palmetto Park Road that runs from the Intracoastal Waterway to State Road A1A.
Beachside residents for years have so
Your August article about “buried valves” in Ocean Ridge has some disturbing quotes. Ken Kaleel might not have known about this issue, but it has come up over and over when valves broke, or could not be located and had to be replaced. During my three
Former Atlantic Plaza buildings are being torn down to make way for the second phase of Atlantic Crossing. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Larry Barszewski
Veterans Park visitors have lost their easy Atlantic Avenue access to parking there now that A
By Mary Thurwachter
South Palm Beach is suffering budget woes, and they have nothing to do with money or expenses. With a new town manager — only two months on the job — and an even newer financial consultant putting the budget together in such a sho
By Mary Thurwachter
Looks like a little more tinkering will be required for that unique contract Town Attorney Glen Torcivia negotiated for South Palm Beach’s new manager, Jamie Titcomb.
Titcomb’s two-year contract has him working 20-25 hours a week
By Mary Thurwachter
If you’ve driven by — or through — Water Tower Commons lately, you know the once empty lots have been filled with residential apartments and commercial buildings, including Aldi, Wawa and Chick-Fil-A.
A car wash (El Car Wash) is u
Boynton Beach commissioners and the city’s arts advisory board are in a dispute over a sculpture the board approved for installation at WXEL’s office plaza on Congress Avenue.
ABOVE: A model of the sculpture, Harmony, by artist Patti Warashina, who li
By Larry Barszewski
When it comes to salary considerations, Ocean Ridge commissioners decided they don’t have to treat Town Hall workers and Police Department employees exactly alike.
At an Aug. 15 budget meeting, the commission approved a $2,500 pay
By Larry Barszewski
Downtown Development Authority board members will meet with Delray Beach city commissioners to discuss the future of Old School Square. However, the DDA members themselves are undecided about what their agency’s continuing role sh
Bobbi Horwich, resident and fitness instructor at The Carlisle in Lantana, draws a crowd for a yoga class inside the fitness room. Horwich also has started a ballet class. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Bobbi Horwich is something we rarely see: a born-
Dozens of surfers paddled off the shores of Lantana Beach on Aug. 5 to honor Rob Caldwell (left), who died on July 13 at the age of 67. Caldwell, a career lifeguard and surfer, worked for the Lantana Fire Department from 1976 to 2009 and was captain
LANTANA — Beloved family man and restaurateur John Joseph Caruso died Aug. 4. He was 80.
Born June 19, 1943, in Brooklyn, New York, to Esther and Francis Caruso, John was the youngest of seven children: two sisters and four brothers, who were raised
GULF STREAM — Robert Eugene Glennon Jr. of Gulf Stream and Arlington, Virginia, died Aug. 7 at his home in Arlington. He was 75.
Born on April 23, 1948, in Bement, Illinois, the son of Robert Eugene Glennon Sr. and Martha Chapman Glennon, Robert work
By Jeff Perlman
DELRAY BEACH — Entrepreneur and philanthropist Carl A. DeSantis died Aug. 10. He was 84.
Born in Boston in 1939 and raised in South Florida, Mr. DeSantis attended college at Florida State University in Tallahassee. He returned to Miam
By Sallie James
BRINY BREEZES — He was the beloved Briny Breezes dock master whose seasoned ear could pick out the sound of a misfiring boat engine from the front porch of his home, day or night. Boaters knew the slightest hint of trouble on the wate
