Deborah Hartz-Seeley's Blog – February 2012 Archive (53)

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…

Milton’s Grooming Parlor in Manalapan incorporates images of Milton.

By Arden Moore

Martha Stewart inspires many with her cuisine and knack for home décor. But…

Debbi Lahr Lawlor

Debbi Lahr Lawlor, a long-time resident who was chairwoman of Boca Festival Days for the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce, has been named operations director for the 33-year-old Boca Raton Children’s Museum.

In the newly created…

By Steve Plunkett

Changing town attorneys may save the town upward of $30,000 a year if January’s legal bill is any guide.

New attorney Glen Torcivia billed Highland Beach $6,396 for 32.8 hours of work in his first month on the job. The total is just 71 percent of the $9,000-a-month retainer paid the man he replaced, longtime Town Attorney Tom Sliney.

“I’m pleased that our bill was less, but I don’t want to jump to conclusions,” Torcivia said.…

Stephanie Miskew of coastal Delray Beach raises a glass

inside the wine room at the Seagate Hotel & Spa, where one of the Boca Bacchanal events will be held. Miskew is general

chairman. Tim Stepien/The Coastal…

St. Lucy Catholic Church member Marilyn Rubin (left)

of Highland Beach enjoys the Xpressions 2012 40th Annual

Fashion Show & Luncheon with her guest Audrey Miller. The

show was held at the Delray Beach Club on Feb.…

By Steve Plunkett

All planning and design efforts for a park at Ocean Strand have been stopped.

The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District, which owns the oceanfront 14.85 acres just south of Spanish River Park, ordered a halt to Ocean Strand work on Feb. 21 “until a documented recreational need is recognized.”

Curtis+Rogers Design Studio Inc., the consultant hired to plan a park for the parcel spanning the Atlantic to the Intracoastal,…