Saturday, August 2, 2025

Loxahatchee Groves

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...

2013 Lox Groves Town Tax Rate Unchanged

At a budget workshop Tuesday, the Loxahatchee Groves Town Council agreed to keep its property tax rate unchanged at 1.2 mills for the upcoming year. Due to a small drop in overall property values, that will bring in slightly...

Tax Amendments Await Florida Voters In November

Acreage resident John Thomas, an employee in the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser’s Office, updated members of the Loxahatchee Groves Landowners’ Association last week on several of the 12 proposed amendments to the state constitution coming before voters in...

Groves Artist Featured At Cultural Council

To Karen McGovern, art is nature and nature is art. “Art and nature are one and the same to me,” said McGovern, a Loxahatchee Groves artist. “You cannot have one without the other.” A conservation biologist by day and jewelry designer...

Project 425 Hosts Exchange Students

Project 425 hosted exchange students from Spain on Wednesday, July 18 at G&M Ranch in Loxahatchee Groves. The focus of the field trip was the use of the Huey helicopter in the Vietnam War and the present duties of...

Groves District Lowers Assessment Rate

The Loxahatchee Groves Water Control District gave preliminary approval to its 2013 budget and assessment rates at a special meeting Tuesday, setting the assessment rate at $135 per acre for properties on unpaved roads. That assessment rate is $16.45 below...

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Murder Mystery Brings Intrigue To Wellington Green

The Village of Wellington collaborated with the Mall at Wellington Green on Saturday, July 19 for a summertime murder...