March 8 was International Women’s Day, including in Azerbaijan. Back in South Florida, March 9 is Election Day in some municipalities. For a quick look at some of the candidates in The Coastal Star’s circulation area, check out my candidate profiles: South Palm Beach Delray Beach Ocean Ridge Manalapan
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Staffers marked a successful year for The Coastal Star, and its Palm Beach ArtsPaper insert, with Sunday’s gathering hosted by Coastal Star editor Mary Kate Leming and publisher Jerry Lower at their Ocean Ridge home. Longtime readers and friends may appreciate glimpses of my colleagues in these photos, courtesy of Aneesha Hanif.
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“The triumvirate,” is how an admiring colleague described them. “They all work together so much that as far as the Women’s Circle is concerned, they’re kind of inseparable,” said fellow volunteer Mary Crawley. That would be the Women’s Circle whose Circle of Hope dinner gala fundraiser, Feb. 8 at Benvenuto in Boynton Beach, will profit […]
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Angeleta Gray says she will “continue to meet with people, listen to their views and bring all the players to the table. I think that will be instrumental in helping us to continue to move forward.” There’s agreement that her fellow Delray Beach commissioners helped advance the city by appointing her to Seat 4 that […]
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Professional awards and other recognitions always are special. Although not the biggest, this one is especially so. Not only for being bestowed by my journalism peers. And in a time of unprecedented change in our profession. But also for coming in a new venue, The Coastal Star newspaper. As well as a new arena of […]
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“District 84 goes all the way out to the Glades, so I have to do a lot of traveling,” said former Delray Beach Commissioner Mackenson Bernard. He’ll be doing a lot more if he wins the Florida House of Representatives seat he is seeking. “Mack” Bernard has resigned his commission seat to run for the […]
From our recent Washington, D.C. conference of the world’s news ombudsmen, I came away thinking that we members of the international Organization of News Ombudsmen don’t have The Answer for newspapers either. At least, not here in the USA. Our group’s president, Stephen Pritchard, reported that since last year’s meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, U.S. newspapers […]
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Are ‘hyperlocals’ replacing traditional newspapers?
July 26th · No Comments · news media, South Florida Times, The Coastal Star
Time weighs in with another update on a question that no matter where I go, comes up as soon as folks become aware of my news journalism background — “What’s happening to our newspaper(s)?” A nod to Jan Norris, mother hen to a bunch of us former Palm Beach Posties, for the alert on the Times piece. […]
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