Thursday, January 23, 2025

Acreage/Loxahatchee/Westlake

ATV And Motorcycle Deaths Trouble Local Officials

No Easy Answers In Area Used To Freewheeling Fun Out west of Seminole Pratt Whitney Road, past 180th Avenue North, Orange Blvd. turns into 70th Road North and leaves suburban homes behind. Then 70th turns into dirt where it meets...

Change Approved Allowing Hotel At Groves Town Center

The Loxahatchee Groves Town Council approved a change Tuesday, Jan. 7 that continues the process to drop the long-abandoned plan to put an assisted living facility at Groves Town Center in favor of an 81-room hotel. Included in the change...

Westlake Council Seeks To Hold Strategic Planning Session

When the City of Westlake was incorporated in 2016, it was hard for most people to visualize anything beyond fallow fields, gator-filled canals and blighted orange groves. But Minto Communities USA Senior Vice President John Carter and a few...

ITID Sports Workshop Set For Monday, Jan. 13

The Indian Trail Improvement District Board of Supervisors is scheduled to hold a workshop meeting regarding the future of youth sports in the Acreage/Loxahatchee area on Monday, Jan.13 beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the ITID office at 13476 61st...

Possible Loss Of Ag Classification Terrifies Some Area Residents

Under the tin roof of a long stable, barn and aviary at the Good Earth Farm off B Road in Loxahatchee Groves, about a dozen residents of the western communities gathered Tuesday, Dec. 17 to air their frustrations and...

ITID Board Schedules Workshop To Focus On Fresh Direction For Youth Sports

After some 30 years of providing supervised sports competition for thousands of youngsters in and around the Acreage/Loxahatchee area, the Acreage Athletic League is on the brink of losing its status as the provider of such services within the...

ITID Hosts ‘Santa’s Magical North Pole Excursion’

The Indian Trail Improvement District hosted “Santa’s Magical North Pole Excursion” at Nicole Hornstein Equestrian Park in The Acreage on Saturday, Dec. 14. The event included a marvelous show of lights when you first enter, a sleigh ride, and...

Gators Gain As Westlake Readies For Second 5K Event Jan. 25

And the winner of the first City of Westlake 5K is… the Golden Grove Elementary School Gators. That’s because the school was the recipient of a check for $2,014 — funds netted at the March 2024 event. Golden Grove Principal...

Retail Boom Continues In Westlake With New Planned Development

Westlake continues to expand its retail offerings with a new shopping plaza called Westlake Palms set to break ground on Tuesday, Jan. 3. Minto Communities USA, the developer and primary builder in the lifestyle-centric Westlake master-planned community, sold a 1.3-acre...

ITID, Westlake See No Easy Solution For Rising Traffic Tsunami

Planes, Trains And Automobiles All May Be Key Pieces In Area’s Mobility Puzzle Growth. It’s the lifeblood and sometimes poison pill that Floridians have to swallow in order to keep the state’s development-driven economy moving. And that certainly is true...

Lox Council Approves School Zone Enforcement Cameras

Drivers on Okeechobee Blvd. will soon need to keep a close eye on how fast they are driving in school zones now that the Town of Loxahatchee Groves has joined a growing list of communities across the state to...

Westlake Council Gets Earful About A Possible Walmart

Some Westlake residents and their Acreage/Loxahatchee neighbors are unhappy that Walmart may be coming to town. They’ve been venting on social media, and several attended the Westlake City Council’s meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 10 to voice their displeasure. “It’s an...

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Duck Donuts Announces Grand Opening Date Of RPB Location Jan. 18

Duck Donuts, known for serving warm, delicious and made to order donuts, recently announced the grand opening of its Royal...