February 2012 Blog Posts (129)

The 11th Annual Delray Beach Home Tour Benefiting Achievement Centers for Children & Families features distinctive homes in the Lake Ida area of Delray Beach from 10 am-4 pm on March 15. Admission is $100 and includes complimentary trolley service and luncheon…

Wayside House 2012 Spring Boutique Committee (back l-r): Lydia Coyle, Susan Duane, Judy Wheatley, Robin Weiss, Karen Sywolski; (front l-r): Laila Young, Doli Rodriguez, Nancy Wibblesman, Event Co-Chairs Barbara Backer and Pat McElroy, Marie Dering, Sandra…

Officer Christine Braswell and Detective John Young of the Delray Beach Police Department demonstrate self-defense moves taught to women in the department’s free Rape Aggression Defense (R.A.D.) class. Sgt. Nicole Guerriero and Officer…

  By Allen Whittemore

    

Roger Ashcroft has three passions in his life: his faith, his wife of 16 years, Heidi, and his tennis.

    Sports and church came early to Ashcroft (Heidi was a little later), and by 17, he had chosen tennis as his main athletic…

St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church members Quinn Doyle, 11, and Deena Rizzo, 7, have fun on the bumper cars during the 45th Annual St. Vincent Ferrer Parish Festival in Delray Beach on Feb. 24.

Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal…

By Emily J. Minor



Stephanie Schappert, 18, started running because it was all in the family — everyone was doing it — and she got lucky.

She’s good at it. And she likes it.

“A lot of people have always thought that we were pressured into running, but that was never the…

Activists say signs such as this one have increased awareness of bike laws. 

By Steve Plunkett

Signs from Boca Raton to Manalapan cautioning motorists…

By Steve Plunkett

The competition between beach-goers and sea turtles for a spot in the sand continued to heat up in 2011. 

Countywide, female loggerheads, greens and leatherbacks dug a record-high 19,552 nests, besting 2010’s record total, said Paul Davis with the county’s Department of Environmental Resources Management.

But the new record was slim. “We only increased 31 nests this year,” Davis said.

Davis noted the county’s almost 41…

By Tim Pallesen

The Caron Foundation has sued Delray Beach after the city denied its request to operate a sober house for seven recovering alcoholics and drug addicts at 1232 Seaspray Ave.

    City commissioners also had responded to outrage over sober houses near the ocean on Feb. 21 by approving three ordinances to make it more difficult for treatment providers to operate in the city.

    “The city might not like it, but our rights are well…

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By Mary Thurwachter

Managing Editor

Combing through The Coastal Star’s community calendar each month leaves us, first, in awe of Michele Smith, the conscientious scribe who assembles the massive list and, second, inspired by the wealth of things to do here! 

March is a good example,…

Marge Lanthier, former senior advancement officer

at St. Andrew’s School, is president of the Friends of

the Highland Beach Library. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star…

Jay Van Vechten and Zack Rice have been making plans for the

Boca Raton Boating & Beach Bash for several months. 

Mary Thurwachter/The Coastal Star…

Candidates for Seat D on the City Council are running for a three-year term. A March 27 runoff will be held in the event of a tie. Constance Scott won a second two-year term to Seat C after challenger Bill Trinka, a retired firefighter, dropped out.

*Designates winner

More than 500 guests attended the YMCA of South Palm Beach County’s 10th 

Annual Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 9 at the Boca Raton Resort & Club to see keynote

speaker and daytime TV celebrity Regis Philbin.…

Candidates are seeking three-year terms on the city commission in two races. * designates winner

Boca Bacchanal 2nd Annual Iron Chef Competition

Boca Raton Resort & Club

Cindy Krebsbach and Amy Kazma, members of the first-place-winning

team Cendyn, celebrate their victory  at the Feb. 10 event.  …

By Jan Norris

Boca Raton’s mayor and her staff got a leg up on movie-goers at the new iPic theater slated to open this summer in Mizner Park.

Hamid Hashemi presented Susan Whelchel and a few council members with their own monogrammed pillows and blankets — to be used in the new electric leather recliners that will serve as seating in the luxe-premium areas of the upscale theater.

At an outdoor press con-ference in Mizner Park’s green space last month,…

The flower beds of Gail Brown’s Delray Beach house are

filled with 1,400 New Guinea impatiens. Jerry Lower/The Coastal…

By Steve Plunkett

The town has offered to settle former Town Manager Dale Sugerman’s lawsuit out of court and is waiting for his answer.

“At this point, all I can tell you is a lawsuit is going on, but…