It began as a deep, powerful EF-3 tornado over the vast, flat emptiness of the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge west of Delray Beach. Spawned by feeder bands of Hurricane Milton, it roared northeast at freight-train speed...
For months, Rachelle Litt and Meg Weinberger have been campaigning hard for the District 94 seat in the Florida House of Representatives being vacated by Republican State Rep. Rick Roth. But both said this week that politics is taking...
Homeowners in the City of Westlake suffered only minor damage from the powerful EF-3 tornado that passed just to the east on Wednesday, Oct. 9 as Hurricane Milton came ashore on Florida’s west coast.
“We were incredibly blessed,” Mayor JohnPaul...
The Loxahatchee Groves Town Council got an update from engineering consultants Tuesday, Oct. 1 on a project designed to gather the data necessary to upgrade the town’s drainage system, and perhaps even help gather additional grant money to make...
Wednesday, Oct. 9 is a day that won’t soon be forgotten at the Panther Ridge Conservation Center on D Road in Loxahatchee Groves.
A tornado spurred by Hurricane Milton tore through the five-acre facility housing 27 cats representing 10 species....
What started off as a neighborhood event for children along Citrus Grove Blvd. has morphed into a Halloween monster, one of the event’s founders told the Indian Trail Improvement District Board of Supervisors on Wednesday, Sept. 18.
“It has turned...
Indian Trail Improvement District Supervisor Betty Argue said this week that she is comfortable that the area’s informed voters will choose her during the Nov. 5 general election for Seat 4 on the ITID Board of Supervisors, but angry...
Natalia Melian-Torres said that the plight of big-rig truckers, like her husband, got her interested in politics, but she is far from a one-issue candidate.
“The parks are horrible… traffic is unbearable… improvements are needed in drainage… the milled...
In the race for Indian Trail Improvement District Seat 2, incumbent Supervisor Keith Jordano said this week that he knows he’s fighting an uphill battle against challenger Richard Vassalotti II.
“This situation is akin to David vs. Goliath,” said Jordano,...
After winning 40.03 percent of the vote in the six-way primary for Indian Trail Improvement District Seat 2 in August, candidate Richard Vassalotti II said a lot of hard work and listening to the “heartbeat” of the community paid...
Two weeks after approving a budget keeping its tax rate unchanged, the Loxahatchee Groves Town Council debated the merits of dropping the rate at the town’s final budget hearing Wednesday, Sept. 18.
Early in the budget cycle, the council set...
Residents and property owners of the Santa Rosa Groves neighborhood celebrated the expected reopening of the agricultural culvert crossing at Carol Street and 59th Street on Sunday, Sept. 29. The crossing had been in place since 1974 until it...