Mary Kate Leming's Blog Posts Tagged 'boynton beach' (114)

By Tim O’Meilia

Crosswalks and pedestrian signals will be installed at A1A and Woolbright Road despite the objection of neighborhood residents and the Ocean Ridge Town Commission.

Five days after commissioners voted 3-1 to oppose the state-funded project, the Florida Department of Transportation notified the town by letter May 7 that the work would begin May 28, the day after Memorial Day.

The letter cited safety concerns because of increased pedestrian…

By Tim O’Meilia

Bowing to the pleas of two dozen nearby residents, Ocean Ridge town commissioners took a stand against the installation of crosswalks at the Woolbright Road and A1A intersection but that opposition may not be enough to stop the project.

The Florida Department of Transportation will wait until next week to receive a letter from the town before a decision on the $44,500 project is made. But a DOT official who attended the…

The Coquimbo stands grounded on a reef in this 1909 image.

Photo courtesy of the Boynton Beach City Library

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A high-rise would fill the former Bank of America land at Federal Highway and Ocean Avenue. Rendering provided

By Thomas R. Collins



    Towers of offices, rental apartments, shops, restaurants…

Attendees photograph the sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean following the Easter Sunrise Community Worship Service presented by the Boynton Beach Ministerial Association. Photo by Charlie…

The Boynton Beach/Lantana Rotary Club has awarded the first scholarship for a student of the United States to attend the May 28-29 Molecular Frontiers Annual Symposium in Stockholm, Sweden at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Destiny Andrews, a certified student…

By Angie Francalancia

    

Boynton Beach’s downtown fire station that helps serve Ocean Ridge and Briny Breezes will be brought back up to full staffing, thanks to a two-year grant that the Boynton Beach Commission agreed last month to accept.

    Boynton Beach will hire seven new firefighters with the $967,000 grant, which will cover the cost of their salaries and benefits for two years. The city had cut its crew last year to save money in the 2011-12 budget.…

Debby Coles-Dubay, Boynton Beach’s public art administrator, engages with a moving sculpture in Lake Worth. Boynton Beach will host the 2013 International Kinetic Art Exhibit and symposium.

Jerry Lower/The Coastal…

More than 150 supporters, along with an army of tiny ‘workers,’ celebrated the ground-breaking of the Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County’s new Literacy Center for Education, Training and Outreach. To kick off the construction, a group of little ones…

Maculeuse St. Amie, left, thanks siblings Tori and Colin Wheat for their donation of Colin’s old bicycle, which will go to St. Amie’s grandson.  Photo provided

By Emily J. Minor

    

It’s nice being a grandma, especially…

Ryan Graham, 6, of Delray Beach is a study in concentration as he fills his K-Cup with potting soil and seeds. Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

By Ron Hayes



Erin Donahue’s dog ate her homework.

Before she could eat it herself.

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By Thomas R. Collins

    

Plans to make Boynton Beach Boulevard a prettier — and, very possibly, narrower —  street have entered the design phase, city redevelopment officials say.

    Part of the beautification effort is to make the main thoroughfare, with two lanes in each direction, into more of a main-street-type roadway, possibly with one lane in each direction between Seacrest Boulevard and Federal Highway. That, officials hope, will make it an inviting…

The largest crowd ever — close to 200 — attended the Boynton Woman’s Club’s Fashion Show and Luncheon. Nine club-members-turned-models showed off a selection of designer clothes and accessories from Second Time Around, a Delray Beach consignment boutique. The fashion show…

Family and friends of Michael J. Metcalf honor him with a granite bench on Veterans Day during a memorial service at Veterans Memorial Park in Boynton Beach. Metcalf, an Army private first class, died in April trying to save four other soldiers while in Afghanistan as…

Local artist Paul Slater installs  I Ching by artist Jeff Kahn of Lenshartsville, Pa. The sculpture was installed in front of the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum as part of the The 2013 International Kinetic Art Exhibit and Symposium to be held Feb. 8-10 in Boynton Beach.…

Christopher O’Hare in his Pineapple Grove Designs factory. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

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By Angie Francalancia



    People displaying a disabled parking tag no longer automatically get free parking at Boynton Beach’s Oceanfront Park, located within Ocean Ridge.

Boynton Beach city officials made the decision during their budget workshops earlier this year, and began the change in October at the start of the new budget year.

    The exception is for people whose vehicles have been modified with special equipment such as a lift, a ramp or hand…

Painters at Artful Dreamers Studio during the tour.

Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star…

By Angie Francalancia

    

Boynton Beach commissioners once again are talking about closing the city’s downtown fire station, which ran on more than half the calls in Ocean Ridge last year, to cut costs.

    During budget workshops last month, Commissioner Steven Holzman said the city…

By Angie Francalancia



After three tries to get Palm Beach County to allow Boynton Beach to remove an old building at the city’s marina, the Community Redevelopment Agency has pulled its request.

    But that doesn’t mean the building will remain in use, nor does it mean its former tenant, Splashdown Divers, will be back in the old spot.

    The city can move forward with renovation plans, including erecting a new, code-compliant building, ignoring the old…