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Built in 1924 and remodeled in 1988 and 2001, this Mizner-style beach house was one of the first homes built in Ocean Ridge.…

Judy Dempsey, owner of Art Explosion of South Florida, decorated her Boynton Beach home with underwater scenes, such as this one on a living room wall.…

By Betty Wells



    The Arts Garage, Delray’s Beach’s small, popular music and theater venue, needs to raise $2.5 million in 30 months to pay the city for its home — 10,000 square feet of retail space at the Old School Square parking garage. The executive director believes it can happen.

    Dozens of residents praised the nonprofit during an April 16 public hearing packed with more than 200 people at City Hall. The City Commission then voted to let the Arts…

Christina Benisch uses elements found in her Ocean Ridge garden for her award-winning flower arrangements.

This year she represented the Grass River Garden Club at the Society of the Four Arts, and in 2010,…

The Plate: Mediterranean Hummus Plate

The Place: Jellies Bar at The Atlantic Grille at The Seagate Hotel and Spa, 1000 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach; 665-4900 or theatlanticgrille.com

The Price: $9

The Skinny:…

By Thom Smith

Jeff Bolton was one of the good guys. Great accountant. Tremendous sports fan. Loving husband. Unwavering father. When he learned six years ago that his son Jason had acute myeloid leukemia, a nasty bone marrow disease that attacks maybe five kids in the U.S. each year,…

Impact 100 members, including Laura Stoltz (raised fist), react as the winners of the $100,000 grants are announced at the Delray Beach Marriott. Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

By Christine…

Jazz fusion band Oriente will perform at the Arts Garage on May 11. Photo provided

By Greg Stepanich

    Although the arts center she has run for two years was in danger last month of going the way of the…

By Ron Hayes

    BOCA RATON — Her family called her “Mary Detail,” and during the final years of her life, the Boca Raton Historical Society benefited from Mary McKenzie’s love of detailed work.

    A resident for 30 years, Mrs. McKenzie died April 10 after a short illness.“If we couldn’t remember somebody’s birthday, or something that had happened, we’d call her up,” remembers her sister, Pat Gilmour of Margate. “Her memory was phenomenal, right up until…

By Rich Pollack



    A Highland Beach spending issue that appeared to have been resolved last fall has resurfaced, this time at the urging of a new commissioner who believes residents want stronger veto power over purchases of big-ticket items.

    At an April 30 commission workshop meeting, Commissioner Carl Feldman, elected in March, revisited a spending cap that requires voter approval on any purchases exceeding 10 percent of the town’s $10.4 million operating…

Seminoles sit at a chickee at Pirates Cove.

Photo courtesy of the Boca Raton Historical Society

By Deborah S.…

Collector Jerry Reinert shows an etching by artist Winslow Homer.

Dale King/The Coastal Star

By Dale King…

Doris Trinley served Highland Beach for 25 years, including six as a commissioner.

Now she has retired and has time to enjoy the town she loves.

Tim Stepien/The Coastal…

Friends Josepha Peters of Winter Haven, Shake Potoukian of Fort Lauderdale, Cecile Guekjian of Miami

and Rosemary VanWitzenburg of Fort Lauderdale raise a cup at TeaLicious Tea Room…

Necklace of multicolored shell pearls, $195-$225. At Unique Boutique, Delray Beach.…

Dr. Ken Simmons visits with Zeek Moore, Hannah Banana Marinus and Lexi Panitz

in the Doggie Day Care at the Barkeritaville Lagoon at Simmons Veterinary Hospital in Lake Worth.…

CROS Ministries members Carolina Martinez, 27, (left) of West Palm Beach and Tracy Tenore, 28, (right)

of Boynton Beach paint the house of Delray Beach resident Willie Lee Thomas, 89, with the help…

A full-size pirate ship complete with cannons and a gang plank is shaded by massive oak trees

in the side yard of David Nordhausen’s Boca Raton home.…

John Cutrone, director of the Arthur & Mata Jaffe Center for Book Arts at Florida Atlantic University and founder of Real Mail Fridays, talks as AnnaMaria Windisch-Hunt applies postage to one of her 20 thank-you notes.…

Nicholas Michael Kaleel of Ocean Ridge is preparing to graduate from Saint Andrew’s School in Boca Raton.  Commencement exercises will take place at the Chapel of Saint Andrew the Apostle on the school’s campus. Prior to Saint Andrew’s, Kaleel attended Gulf Stream School.

Graduating with…