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Loxahatchee Groves

Rainforest Clinic Offers Veterinary Care For Birds, Exotics

Tropical parrots, penguins and tigers are some of the exotic animals that can be treated at the Rainforest Clinic for Birds & Exotics. Dr. Susan Clubb, the owner, is an experienced and internationally known board-certified veterinarian. She is a 1978...

LGWCD Finalizes Annual Budget

The Loxahatchee Groves Water Control District Board of Supervisors approved a resolution Monday setting its assessment rate and certifying its assessment roll, projected to bring in $1,564,885 in revenue for fiscal year 2012-13. The board set assessment rates in July...

Cooperation Key To Isaac Recovery In Lox Groves

During the record rainfall associated with Tropical Storm Isaac, the Town of Loxahatchee Groves and the Loxahatchee Groves Water Control District worked together to avoid what could have been a much more serious situation, community leaders said at Tuesday’s...

Waste Contract An Issue As Groves Council OKs Budget

The Loxahatchee Groves Town Council conducted its first public hearing Tuesday on the budget for fiscal year 2012-13. At the meeting, the council formally set the town’s property tax rate at 1.2 mills, the same rate as last year. They...

Emergency Rebuild At Pure Thoughts

Pure Thoughts Horse Rescue in Loxahatchee Groves held an “Emergency Rebuild Weekend” Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 1 and 2. Volunteers assisted in relocating horses from the rescue’s other locations, which were flooded due to Tropical Storm Isaac. The rescue’s...

PBSO: Beware Burglaries, Truck Thefts In Groves

A rash of home burglaries and truck thefts have marred Loxahatchee Groves’ usually low crime rate, according to Lt. David Combs, commander of the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office District 15 substation. “We’ve had a number of burglaries and stolen...

Gina Sauber Entertains With Stories Of ‘A Time Remembered’

Dressed in a flowered cotton long dress and blouse in the style a pioneer woman might have made for herself, Gina Sauber of Loxahatchee Groves focused on early lifestyles of Floridians in her presentation “A Time Remembered” last week...

Palm Beach State Gets Town Approval For Campus

Amid standing-room-only supporters and eleventh-hour naysayers, the Loxahatchee Groves Town Council gave final approval Tuesday to comprehensive plan amendments and a resolution that will allow Palm Beach State College to proceed with the development of its fifth campus on...

Groves Councilman Jim Rockett Honored

Loxahatchee Groves Vice Mayor Jim Rockett received a certificate of completion for the 2012 Institute for Elected Officials held June 22-24 in Tampa from Bill Underwood of Underwood Management Services, the town’s management contractor. Underwood also taught the course.

LGWCD Taps Rockett To Negotiate New Saunier Contract

Loxahatchee Groves Water Control District supervisors Tuesday appointed Loxahatchee Groves Councilman Jim Rockett to negotiate a new contract with LGWCD Administrator Clete Saunier. Under the arrangement, supervisors would provide input through the district’s legal staff and forward it to Rockett....

Groves Could Look To Acreage For Speed Hump Policy

In a 3-2 decision, the Loxahatchee Groves Town Council on Tuesday postponed a proposal to adopt speed hump designs installed in The Acreage as a standard for the town, preferring to let the Intergovernmental Coordination Committee work out a...

Groves Puts $500K In Capital Plan For Possible Town Hall

The Loxahatchee Groves Town Council approved a capital improvement budget Tuesday including $500,000 to plan for a future town hall and $200,000 for trails. During council members’ discussion of capital improvement plans, Town Manager Mark Kutney explained that capital programs...

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ABBA Music The Backdrop For A Fun Chamber Evening

On Saturday, Nov. 16, the Greater Wellington Chamber of Commerce hosted “Mamma Mia! A Night in Kalokairi” at the...