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Robert Souaid of Gulf Stream, new to the board of the Caridad Center, and his wife, Jane, hosted a cocktail party at their home to introduce the Gulf Stream community to the work being done at Caridad Center. Located in western Boynton Beach, it is the largest free medical, dental and vision clinic in Florida.…

By Tim O’Meilia

Denied approval for a new entry way to his waterfront home by town commissioners in March, Gulf Stream resident Martin O’Boyle decided on a different renovation.

A white Ku Klux Klan-like hood is painted between two upper story windows on his 1983 home, visible from…

By Tim O’Meilia



Gulf Stream town commissioners gave a tentative green light to new street lights — provided town residents give a thumbs up to a demonstration model to be erected, perhaps near Town Hall soon.

    “Let people see what they are going to get,” said Commissioner…

By Tim O’Meilia

    

Gulf Stream resident Martin O’Boyle’s request to remodel the entry way on his 1983 Hidden Harbour Drive home was denied twice by town commissioners at their March 15 meeting.

    During a four-hour hearing, the commission unanimously upheld Town Manager William Thrasher’s interpretation of the town code disallowing a 25-foot-high entry feature above the front door, then rejected three of four variances O’Boyle sought to override the code.…

Adolphus ‘Dolph’ Orthwein and Leverett Miller play polo at the old Gulfstream Polo. Photos courtesy of the Orthwein family

By Tim Pallesen



Polo put the luster in Gulf Stream in the town’s early…

Australian pines along A1A are part of Gulf Stream’s signature look. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

By Tim O’Meilia

    

The hammock of dense growth will remain along A1A in front of the old Spence property in…

By Tim O’Meilia

    

Two more homes to be sliced from the old Spence estate — a Bermuda home with black shutters and a Colonial West Indies house with a charcoal tile roof — were approved unanimously by the Gulf Stream Town Commission Nov. 9, not that anyone cared much about the architectural style.

Instead, the focus was on podocarpus hedges, buttonwood trees and buffer zones between established Hidden Harbour homeowners and the new Harbour View Estates…

By Ron Hayes



GULF STREAM — John E. Searle Jr., a president of The St. Andrew’s Club from 1991 to ’93, died Oct. 30. He was 88 and had owned a villa at the club since 1973.

    “He was very active until six months before his death,” said his daughter, Kip Abbott. “He was…

Several seawalls, pools and yards in Manalapan were seriously damaged by the constant pounding of the surf from Hurricane Sandy and seasonal high tides.  Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

More photos from…

What do the town of Gulf Stream and cities such as Wellington, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens and Boca Raton have in common?

    Location. Location. Location.

    They’re all part of PBC Interactive, Palm Beach County’s newest website to connect business people and developers hungry for new sites with just the right location in just the right town.

    Jupiter, Royal Palm Beach, Riviera Beach, Boynton Beach and Juno Beach are also among those hungry to find business matches…

By Tim O’Meilia

    

The first of six homes to be carved from the old Spence estate was approved unanimously by Gulf Stream town commissioners Oct. 12 without a whisper of complaint from nearby neighbors.

    The site plan for Lot 3 along North Ocean Boulevard includes a 9,200-square-foot, partial two-story, Bermuda-style home with a three-car garage and a swimming pool. A carriage house will sit atop the garage and will be connected with the main house by a…

By Steve Plunkett

    

Gulf Stream town commissioners may decide to raise property taxes up to 7.1 percent for the coming budget year, mostly to rebuild reserves used last year for the underground utilities project.

    Commissioners set a maximum rate of $3.10 per $1,000 of taxable value, a rate that can be lowered but not raised in subsequent meetings. A home assessed at $1 million after exemptions last year paid $2,927 in town property taxes. If that home’s…

By Steve Plunkett

    

A second unscheduled opening on the Gulf Stream Town Commission may allow the remaining members to add youth as well as experience to the dais.

    Fred Devitt III sold his North Ocean Boulevard home and resigned his seat July 18, just five days after being selected as vice mayor.…

By Steve Plunkett

Fond recollections and a stirring tribute to the late Mayor William Koch Jr. marked the Gulf Stream Town Commission’s first meeting in the post-Koch era.

Town Attorney John “Skip” Randolph remembered being a “wet behind the ears” lawyer in 1971 and meeting the “somewhat intimidating” mayor.

“It took me a while, but I ultimately learned that Bill Koch’s gruff exterior was just a facade and that his bark was much worse than his bite,”…

By Steve Plunkett



Town police, who monitor a 20 mph speed limit throughout Gulf Stream, will install six stop signs and establish a school zone on Gulfstream Road to slow motorists even more.

Delivery trucks and construction vehicles combine with the town’s lack of sidewalks to create a dangerous situation for pedestrians, Police Chief Garrett Ward said.

The stop signs, both northbound and southbound, will go up on Gulfstream Road and Polo Drive at Middle…

By Steve Plunkett

Mayor William Koch Jr., who served as Gulf Stream’s top elected official for more than half his life, has died. He was 91.

Despite being a very public servant, Mayor Koch was a “very private and humble man,” the town said about his June 16 death, noting he was a…

The view of the construction site from one neighbor’s driveway used to be blocked by a banyan tree, vines, shrubs and other vegetation. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

By Steve…

A Leatherback sea turtle returns to the ocean after depositing her eggs at first light on the beach in Gulf Stream on April 6.

Photo by Joan Lorne, Sea Turtle…

Charles and Anna Carlino’s Polynesian-style home on Avenue Au Soleil in Gulf Stream.

By Christine Davis

    

There are a few people in South Florida’s tropical paradise who live in literal Shangri-Las.

    Take…

Bruce Anderson volunteering at Palm Beach State College. Kurtis Boggs/The Coastal Star

By Steve Pike



    John F. Kennedy once said: “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

    Bruce…