Coconut Creek News
By LEON FOOKSMAN
October 13, 2025
COCONUT CREEK, FL — Broward County parks in Coconut Creek are bringing seasonal fun to families this October, with a fall celebration and a spooky nature program at two of the city’s most popular parks.- Oct. 18: Fall Festival at Tradewinds Park — 11 a.m.–3 p.m.Tradewinds Park, 3600 W. Sample Road, ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — After years of wear, waterlogging, and weekend tournaments, the baseball fields at North Community Park in Coral Springs may be getting a long-awaited upgrade.City officials are proposing to replace the park’s four grass fields with synthetic turf — a $1.45 million project ...
BOCA RATON, FL — Boca Raton’s holiday season will kick off with the second annual Holiday POPS Concert at Mizner Park Amphitheater on Saturday, Dec. 6.The Symphonia, conducted by Jacomo Bairos, will perform festive favorites alongside the FAU Chamber Singers and Schola Cantorum of Florida.Doors ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — The outdoor shopping center Promenade at Coconut Creek will host a Halloween Dance Party on Sunday, Oct. 26, from 2 to 4 p.m.The free, family-friendly event will feature music, arts and crafts, and other Halloween activities. Costumes are encouraged.The event will take place at ...
POMPANO BEACH — Pompano Beach High School has been named a “School of Excellence” by the Florida Department of Education. The distinction makes it one of nine public high schools, out of 32 in the county, to be recognized in such a way for the 2024–25 school year.According to Broward County Public ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – A Coral Springs man swung a metal axe at his brother after being told to move out for smoking crack cocaine, according to police.When police arrived at the home on Sept. 30, around 8:30 p.m., the victim told officers that his brother, Ariel Bonilla, 46, had been smoking crack ...
LIGHTHOUSE POINT, FL — As a child growing up in Brazil, Hamilton Monteiro, M.D., knew he wanted to be a doctor — a journey that’s taken him from his home country to a Yale University-affiliated hospital to now serving northern Broward County, including Coconut Creek, at the recently opened women’s ...
BOCA RATON, FL — After hearing presentations from nine potential vendors, over two nights' worth of public meetings, commissioners for the Greater Boca Raton Beach & Park District gave Boca Surf Park their top ranking.With the last of the presentations concluding on Wednesday night at Sugar ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – The Chabad Jewish Center in Coral Springs is kicking off a new season of SparkSpace, a community program offering creative and wellness classes open to everyone — regardless of affiliation.Designed to help residents “gather, grow, and glow,” SparkSpace provides a welcoming ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – Two people were hospitalized following a serious two-vehicle crash early Friday morning that shut down a major stretch of Sample Road for several hours.Coral Springs Police say one person is in serious condition and another in critical condition following the crash around 6 a.m.
BOCA RATON, FL — Boca Helping Hands is asking for community support to feed more than 4,000 families through its 21st annual Thanksgiving Box Brigade. Each $29.72 donation provides a turkey and a box of holiday meal essentials for a local family, according to organizers. Donate here: ...
POMPANO BEACH — Late morning and early afternoon saw torrential rain drench Pompano and much of northern Broward County with - by some estimates of local TV stations - between 6 to 8 inches of rain.The weather cleared and streets drained off their watery burdens in late afternoon, but not before ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – A Coral Springs man caused a disturbance at two Coconut Creek hotels, banged on a locked door so hard it broke, and attempted to enter several parked cars, according to police.Officers were called to the Residence Inn on State Road 7 just after 6 a.m. on Oct. 2, following ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – A Coconut Creek family’s frantic search for their missing cat ended in an unexpected place — behind a wall.After several hours of calling and searching, the family in the Bayport neighborhood, off Lyons Road and 42nd Street, realized their feline friend was meowing from ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — Global drugmaker Lupin Pharmaceuticals plans to build a $250 million manufacturing plant in Coral Springs, bringing more than 200 skilled jobs to the city by 2030, the company announced on Wednesday. The new 70,000-square-foot facility on five acres in the Coral Springs Park of ...
BOCA RATON, FL — A retired Boca Raton lawyer has filed a lawsuit to halt a ballot initiative sparked by the city’s proposed downtown government campus redevelopment plan that, if passed, would require the city to hold elections to lease or sell more than a half-acre of land. The lawsuit is the ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – A 45-year-old Wellington man hit a pregnant woman with his vehicle during a dispute over a parking space outside Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurant at The Promenade in Coconut Creek, according to police.The victim was standing in a parking space to hold it for her husband ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — Coconut Creek announced on Wednesday the temporary closures or limited access due to renovations of a playground at one city park and bathrooms at two others. In a social media post, city officials said the playground at George S. Gerber Park will be closed for the next six to ...
BOCA RATON, FL — On the heels of tenured professors being placed on administrative leave during an investigation into their social media posts following the death of conservative politics activist Charlie Kirk, Florida Atlantic University’s Faculty Senate and an FAU union on Monday passed a joint ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — Broward County Public Schools on Tuesday decided to take a nearby middle school off the list of schools it’s potentially closing next year, saving Coconut Creek’s Lyons Creek Middle from an influx of new students. School officials now plan to keep Forest Glen Middle School in ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – The Coral Springs Coconut Creek Regional Chamber of Commerce will roll out the red carpet — and a few Derby hats — for its Annual Gala on Friday, Oct. 24, at Deer Creek Golf and Country Club.The Kentucky Derby-themed event will bring together business owners, community leaders, ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — Ongoing hearings in Tallahassee, where Florida Power & Light Co. is seeking approval for utility rate increases, could affect millions of customers — in Coconut Creek and across the state.The Florida Public Service Commission began formal hearings this week to review both ...
BOCA RATON, FL — Just after 6 p.m. on Oct. 1, a man called Boca Raton police to report that he saw two people having sex in the swale on the west side of Powerline Road, just south of Glades Road.The responding police officer found just that in a grassy area just north of Estancia East, according ...
BOCA RATON — The remains of Steven MacKrell, a South Florida man missing since 2015, have been recovered from a Boca Raton lake, more than 10 years after he disappeared.According to Sunshine State Sonar, a nonprofit group specializing in underwater search and recovery, the discovery was made ...
BOCA RATON, FL – For attorney Joseph Abdin, the courtroom isn’t the only place where he’s made his mark. The 28-year-old lawyer with Brotman, Nusbaum, Ibrahim & Adelman in Boca Raton gained national recognition after appearing on the hit reality competition shows “Big Brother” and “The Amazing ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL - A new Indian restaurant is on its way to Coral Springs.The business will open at 1142 University Drive, in the plaza at University and Ramblewood drives. The location, next to Dunkin’, previously housed a Venezuelan restaurant and, before that, a pizza shop.The restaurant’s ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – Coconut Creek is heating things up for a good cause. The Women’s Club of Coconut Creek has teamed up with the Coconut Creek Benevolent Firefighters & Paramedics Association to create the city’s first-ever Firefighter Calendar, a lighthearted, homegrown project that will help ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — Coconut Creek police want to buy a drone and robot, so the city’s SWAT team can use those technologies to enter and clear structures instead of sending in its members and potentially putting them in danger. The city commission is scheduled to consider the request on Thursday to ...
POMPANO BEACH — The City of Pompano Beach spent $38,000 on a series of geometric asphalt art street murals that were recently painted over by the Florida Department of Transportation, Mayor Rex Hardin confirmed in recent days.On the night of September 23rd, FDOT crews worked through the evening and ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – A 32-year-old Coral Springs man is accused of hitting his father during a violent argument that began when the father asked a prostitute — whom his son had brought home — to leave, according to police.At around 9:13 pm. on Sept. 27, the victim told police that earlier in the ...