Coconut Creek Top Stories
By ZAHRA HUBER
October 3, 2024
CORAL SPRINGS, FL - For one Coral Springs family, gardening isn’t just a hobby—it’s a way of life that brings them closer together while providing a much-needed escape from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Kim Lancaster, her husband Kris, and their sons Mathew, 15, and Dominick, 12, have ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - Coconut Creek voters get to decide on Election Day whether or not they want an elected mayor — and city leaders want to make sure they know what changes will occur, if they approve a local ballot measure. City Clerk Joseph Kavanagh launched a number of new initiatives to educate ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - Monarch High School students in Coconut Creek have launched a Hurricane Helene relief drive and are seeking donations of essential supplies. The high schoolers have enlisted the help of Coconut Creek Elementary and Winston Park Elementary schools as well. They’re accepting ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - Coconut Creek has passed a new local law banning single-use plastic, a move that mostly impacts the city’s 70 or so eateries. The move prohibits food providers from selling, using or offering single-use plastic straws or stirrers, but they can offer compostable straws as an ...
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. — The next Homegrown Concert Series concert will feature the VAM Band at the Coconut Creek Community Center on Friday, Oct. 18. The show will take place from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., and is free to attend. The event is open to all ages and will be held at the bandshell at 1100 Lyons ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - Coconut Creek police arrested a group of teens out on a Friday night, chasing ghosts, drinking beer, smoking pot, and vandalizing city property, according to police. On Sept. 28 around 1:47 a.m., the teens were seen on closed-circuit TV breaking into a boarded-up building owned ...
TAMARAC - A six-year-old boy is dead after accidentally shooting himself with a relative’s gun at a home in Tamarac.The Broward County Sheriff’s Department was called to the 5600 block of Rock Island Road on Monday afternoon on reports of a shooting. When deputies arrived, they saw the boy, ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL – As the new owners of Schmear Bagel Co. in Coral Springs, Oleg Krutansky and Mike Monastirski know a thing or two about making a quality bagel.They should know. “We’re New Yorkers. We know what a good bagel is. We take bagels very seriously,” Monastirski said.“Yea, we grew up ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - Up next for city review on the massive MainStreet at Coconut Creek development, the roadway master plan for the 200 acres or so of the proposed project. The city’s planning and zoning board is scheduled to review the much-anticipated roadway plan at its Tuesday meeting. City ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - An elderly man and a woman from Coconut Creek recently reported losing thousands of dollars in separate fraud cases involving phone scams, police reports show. On Sept. 19, an 81-year-old Wynmoor Village resident filed a fraud report with the Coconut Creek Police Department ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - Coconut Creek’s five elected commissioners have approved the city’s $222.7 million budget for the next fiscal year, which includes a tax rate hike and an increase in the fire assessment fee. The commission voted unanimously on Thursday to adopt a tax rate or millage rate of ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - As Broward County school officials mull the future of a redefined district and Coconut Creek Elementary School, city leaders see an opportunity to add to their vision of a linear educational campus along a stretch of Coconut Creek Parkway. City leaders have already used grant ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL - Four members of the Coral Springs-Parkland Fire Department are heading out to assist with post-Hurricane Helene rescue efforts. Battalion Chief Anthony Gonzalez, Fire Inspector Steve Fernandez, and Firefighters Richard Zino and Oscar Gomez were deployed at 5 a.m. Wednesday as ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - Police recently obtained an arrest warrant for a former Broward College Coconut Creek campus employee accused of stealing and selling about 20 laptops. Police have been trying to serve Donald Scott Schultz, 53, formerly of Miami, but they have been unable to do so in the case ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - Clean Eatz, a national franchise providing high-protein, low-carb, and low-sugar meal options, has opened its newest location in the West Creek Commons shopping center in Coconut Creek.It’s owned by Robert Dolce, a fitness enthusiast who grew up in a Haitian family and is ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - With stormy weather expected to hit Coconut Creek and the rest of South Florida from the passing Hurricane Helene, Broward County Public Schools announced Wednesday that its closing schools and offices on Thursday. The hurricane is on a path toward Florida's Big Bend area and ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - In the days after the recent school shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia, Coconut Creek police school resource officers have seen a spike in threat calls.According to police bulletins, in the week before the Sept. 4 shooting that saw two 14-year-old students and two ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - Coconut Creek is under a tropical storm warning and flood watch as Hurricane Helene ratchets up its strength, and that means area residents should prepare for deteriorating conditions through 8 a.m. Friday, according to the National Weather Service. The weather service issues a ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL – The Coconut Creek City Commission is expected to take up changes to local laws at its Thursday meeting that mirror a controversial state law banning sleeping and camping on public property and gives city police new enforcement power. Earlier this year, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - Coconut Creek is organizing a bus tour of the city’s public art, parks, and trails.The tour is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. on Oct. 9. Only 25 seats are available, so city officials are requiring participants to register to secure a spot on the tour. The tour will begin at City Hall ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL - A young Coral Springs resident diagnosed with cancer will get to see her favorite musician in concert, thanks to a generous gift. In recognition of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, a Broward Health pharmacy technician and her daughter are donating two Taylor Swift concert ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - Coconut Creek city leaders are set this week to consider the developers’ request to build more townhomes in the massive MainStreet at Coconut Creek development. This time, the developers are seeking permission at Thursday’s City Commission meeting to build 16 two-story buildings ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - Coconut Creek Elementary is on the school district’s list of schools to repurpose due to its low enrollment, and that has city leaders advocating for it to become a K-8 school. District leaders held a community meeting at Coconut Creek High School last week to discuss how to ...
MARGATE, FL - South Florida is a melting pot of Caribbean flavors, from Cuban and Jamaican to Bahamian and Trinidadian cuisine. But for many, Haitian cuisine remains an unexplored gem in the region's rich cultural food landscape.Haitian dishes are bold, soulful, and rooted in tradition. Staples ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - Coconut Creek Fire Rescue is offering CPR classes that teach residents how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The training, called Heart Saver CPR, is provided by the American Heart Association. The classes include CPR for infants, children, and adults, as well as how to ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - Coconut Creek police arrested a Deerfield Beach man this week for driving under the influence after he ran a red light and hit another car with a mother and two children, sending them to the hospital, according to a police report. On Sept. 18 at around 7 p.m., Angelo Carruba, ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - While Coconut Creek city leaders continue their vociferous advocacy against an expansion of the Monarch Hill Landfill, official complaints about it filed with the county over the last five years range from about one to three dozen annually — except for one year. The impacts of ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL - Coral Springs police are reminding residents to drive carefully -- or they may just make the next episode of the department’s popular “Traffic Thursdays” series.The series -- which is posted to the department’s social media accounts -- follows city officers during routine ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - A Coconut Creek woman called police after she found a mauled dead cat near in a field just west of her apartment building on Lyons Road, according to a police report. At around noon on Sept. 15, police went to 621 Lyons Road where the resident, who works for a veterinary ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL - Coconut Creek city leaders are urging residents to have their voices heard at two public meetings on Wednesday - one on schools and the other about garbage. Broward County Public Schools leaders will be at Coconut Creek High School on Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m. to get input from ...