Coconut Creek News
By ZAHRA HUBER
December 13, 2025
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – After 25 years with the Coral Springs-Parkland Fire Department, Deputy Fire Chief Michael Moser has retired, closing a chapter that began when he first joined the department as a volunteer firefighter in 2000.Moser, who served six years as deputy fire chief, retired early this ...
POMPANO BEACH — Pompano Beach is moving forward with plans to build a new Emergency Operations Center and Fire Administration building, a project city officials say would modernize emergency management and improve coordination during hurricanes and other major incidents.According to documents filed ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — Coconut Creek bluegrass fans don’t have far to go this weekend to listen their favorite music at Fern Forest Nature Center.The next free concert in the Dan Barrow Memorial Bluegrass Concert Series, featuring the Shade Tree Pickers, is this weekend. The band performs from 2 to 4 ...
POMPANO BEACH — With a ribbon cutting on Thursday, Pompano can now call itself a part of the world of upscale clothing design and the hot growth of Keenabela - a boutique that specializes in women's sustainable resort-wear and loungewear.Fashion designer Myriam Belasse, along with Pompano Beach ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — Two area boys basketball coaches, including one at Coral Springs High School, are accused of secretly renting out school gyms for private tournaments and pocketing the proceeds, according to arrest affidavits released this week.Henry “JR” McNabb, 42, Blanche Ely High School's ...
WEST BOCA RATON, FL — When Richard Bloomfield opens the doors to the new Baya Bar on Saturday at The Greens Plaza in West Boca Raton, it will mark not just the franchise’s Florida debut, but the start of a personal venture rooted in his family’s life here.“This will be the first store in Florida, ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — As state lawmakers haggle over cutting property taxes, Coconut Creek on Thursday fired a consultant it hired only two months ago to help it create a redevelopment plan as a cost-saving move months before it’s even clear what proposal may come out of Tallahassee. In October, the ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — Promenade at Coconut Creek kicks off the Festival of Lights on Sunday with live music, fire juggling, traditional jelly donuts, and, of course, the lighting of a grand menorah. The retail center‘s annual Chanukah celebration, put on in partnership with Chabad of Coconut Creek, ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — The lack of bacon on a recent Coral Springs Dunkin' Donuts breakfast croissant order ended with the arrest of an employee for brandishing a pocketknife and threatening two drive-through customers. After the incident on Dec. 7, police arrested Elijah Joseph Muller, 21, of West ...
BOCA RATON, FL — The Boca Raton City Council is set to consider a $100,000 grant request from the Boca Raton Museum of Art at its meeting next week.According to a memo from museum CEO and director Ena Heller to city officials, the grant request is intended to support a series of art exhibitions and ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – Coral Glades High School is celebrating a historic milestone: Kyler Theophile, a senior, has become the first boys basketball player in school history to commit to a Division I program. The 16-year-old standout, who has been playing basketball since he was three, officially ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL - Coral Springs residents can once again take a self-guided tour of some of the city’s brightest and most festive homes, as 22 households are participating in this year’s 2025 Deck the Halls Holiday Home Decoration Tour.The city released its annual list of decorated homes this ...
Margate, FL – HCA Florida Northwest Hospital, which serves Coconut Creek, on Thursday announced that it has earned a certification from a national accreditation group for its advanced care of patients suffering strokes.The group, DNV Healthcare USA Inc., recognized the hospital as a primary plus ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — A major expansion proposed for North Broward Preparatory School is winding its way through Coconut Creek's review process.The city's development review committee met with school representatives on Thursday about its plans. According to documents posted by the city, the project — ...
POMPANO BEACH — Pompano commissioners on Tuesday advanced a proposed zoning amendment that would allow “freestanding emergency rooms” - sometimes called “off-campus emergency departments” to be built in the city.HCA Florida Northwest Driving the ChangeDriving the debate is HCA Florida Northwest, ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – A Coral Springs man is accused of hitting his mother in the head multiple times with a frying pan before trying to smother her inside their home, according to an arrest report.Police say 53-year-old Keith Woodward and his mother were searching for the phone number of a caretaker ...
WEST BOCA RATON, FL — Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office deputies recently arrested a West Boca Raton man with a history of mental health issues and access to guns for harassing his ex-girlfriend with up to 1,000 contacts within a week, through phone messages and social media. On Dec. 9, they charged ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — Two Coconut Creek condominium associations are up for city grants, one to replace trees, the other for security upgrades, and the city’s elected leaders will decide on Thursday whether to award them. Baywood Village II Condominium Association applied for a grant to help pay for ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL— A Coconut Creek woman lost hundreds of dollars after accidentally calling a fraudulent phone number she found online - while trying to order pizza, police said.Coconut Creek police said the woman recently tried to order pizza from a local restaurant. But instead of calling the ...
BOCA RATON, FL - Keith O’Donnell spent decades helping shape the Boca Raton so many residents know today — from high-profile corporate headquarters to the redevelopment projects that energized the city’s downtown. O’Donnell died on Nov. 28 at age 74, leaving behind a legacy written into the ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — The city’s annual Holiday Parade returns this Wednesday, Dec. 10, bringing thousands of spectators to Sample Road — and a series of planned road closures beginning at 5 p.m.The parade, one of Coral Springs’ biggest community traditions, will run along Sample Road, where families ...
BOCA RATON, FL — After a two-year investigation, Boca Raton police on Tuesday announced the arrest of a Clearwater man who stands accused of defrauding nearly $200,000 from clients of a Boca Raton-based company for much of 2023. Police charged Marius St. Gerard, 38, with multiple counts of ...
POMPANO BEACH, FL — For most spectators, the 63rd Annual Greater Pompano Beach Holiday Boat Parade is an hour or two of shimmering lights, thumping music and holiday cheer drifting up the Intracoastal Waterway. But for the folks who actually enter their vessels in the parade, it's a tradition that ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — Come Friday, the streets of Coconut Creek will see the likes of Santa and Mrs. Clause, maybe a Grinch and some folks from Whoville and, of course, an elf or two as the city’s Polaris Express Holiday Caravan hits the road. Officials suggest residents come dressed in their coziest ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — Coconut Creek schools and those across the county are starting to feel new burdens due to the financial crunch Broward County Public Schools faces as a result of declining enrollment. Superintendent Howard Hepburn on Monday announced several moves the district is taking ...
BOCA RATON, FL — If Boca Raton were to build a new skate park, what kind of obstacles should it have for the skateboarders, BMX enthusiasts, rollerbladers and other “wheeled sports” enthusiasts? That’s the focus of an upcoming conceptual design workshop hosted by the local non-profit skateboarding ...
POMPANO BEACH — Newly obtained 911 audio sheds light on the death of former NBA center Elden Campbell, who died in what his family called a fishing tragedy in Pompano Beach on Dec. 1. He was 57.A passerby reported seeing Campbell's body at the beach shore, and dialed 911. Deputies at the scene ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — Israeli siblings Maya and Itay Regev received thunderous applause Sunday night in Coral Springs as they calmly recounted being shot, kidnapped, and held hostage by Hamas militants during the October 7, 2023 attack on the Nova Music Festival.More than 250 people filled the Chabad ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – After a breakthrough season that has the band already focused on raising the bar for next year, the Coral Springs Charter School Marching Panthers closed out 2025 with a history-making accomplishment: qualifying for finals at the Florida Marching Band Championships for the first ...
BOCA RATON, FL — Louisville will meet Toledo in this year’s Boca Raton Bowl, set for Dec. 23 at Flagler Credit Union Stadium on Florida Atlantic University’s campus, officials announced on Monday. The game, officially the Bush’s Boca Raton Bowl of Beans, will kick off at 2 p.m. on ESPN. It marks ...