Coconut Creek Top Stories
By LUIS F. PEREZ
December 15, 2025
BOCA RATON, FL — The Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County hosts a community celebration to mark the fourth night of Chanuka at Boca Center on Wednesday. The annual event, which starts at 5 p.m. at 5150 Town Center Circle, features storytelling, crafts and community candle lighting, ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – Coconut Creek High School is inviting the community to roll up its sleeves and help refresh its campus during a day-long volunteer effort aimed at beautification, connection, and school pride.The event, called Cougar Beautification Day, will take place from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - High above Broward County, just outside of Coconut Creek where construction debris and landscaping waste are layered across a 225-foot hill, Cliff Sanchious spends his workdays behind the controls of massive machines that once fascinated him as a child.Sanchious, 61, has worked ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — A Coral Springs residence associated with a cocaine drug bust earlier this year remains locked in legal limbo after its owner failed to show up for a city nuisance-abatement hearing, further delaying the city’s efforts to clean up the property.The property, at 1839 NW 91st ...
BOCA RATON, FL — As enrollment climbs to record levels, Lynn University is racing to expand housing, academic facilities and student support services to keep pace with its fastest period of growth in more than a decade.The university says overall enrollment has risen 14% since 2018 — now topping ...
CORAL SPRINGS — Organizers of the annual Hanukkah Festival in Coral Springs have added extra police and private security for Sunday’s event at the Sportsplex, citing safety concerns following a deadly antisemitic attack at a Jewish holiday celebration in Australia.Rabbi Yankie Denburg of the Chabad ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — Coconut Creek police are investigating a case of bank card fraud that happened over about 12 days last month when the victim’s account had at least 14 fraudulent charges that ranged from $3 to $133, according to a police bulletin. The victim reported the false charges to police ...
BOCA RATON, FL — Mizner Park will turn into a place for simple holiday fun as Merry in Mizner returns with two free pop-up public entertainment events coming up.On Sunday, Dec. 14, the pop-up entertainment event is Stuff-a-Plush, starting at 6 p.m. at the south gazebo. People can make a winter ...
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 ...