Friday, July 18, 2025

Acreage/Loxahatchee/Westlake

LGWCD Offers Job To Ex Clewiston Manager McKown

The Loxahatchee Groves Water Control District Board of Supervisors offered former Clewiston City Manager Steve A. McKown a contract as its new district administrator Monday pending a background check. McKown asked for three days to review the conditions of the...

ITID Gets First Look At Draft Water Agreement

A water-sharing proposal between the Indian Trail Improvement District and the City of West Palm Beach could be mutually beneficial, according to a short presentation last week by ITID Engineer Lisa Tropepe and West Palm Beach water consultant Patrick...

Grader Purchase Leads To Policy Discussion

The Indian Trail Improvement District Board of Supervisors reaffirmed its intention Wednesday to purchase a new $180,000 road grader to replace one in need of almost $30,000 worth of repairs. Newly elected Supervisor Gary Dunkley asked to have last month’s...

ITID Board Agrees To Keep Tanya Quickel

The Indian Trail Improvement District Board of Supervisors decided last week to keep District Administrator Tanya Quickel at her post. Last month, Quickel offered to negotiate her exit with ITID attorneys after some board members wanted to renegotiate her contract...

Flags For The Cure Raises Over $27,000

The Acreage Girls Flag Football League presented the sixth annual Flags for the Cure flag football tournament Jan. 2-6 at Acreage Community Park. Players of all ages came out to battle for charity and raised more than $27,000 for...

Former Clewiston Manager Top Candidate For LGWCD Post

The Loxahatchee Groves Water Control District supervisors narrowed their list of administrator candidates to three in a recent workshop and have initiated background checks on the preferred candidate, Steve A. McKown. The list will be discussed and possibly shortened further...

Campus Work To Road Projects, Busy Year In Lox Groves

The upcoming year will be a crucial one for the Town of Loxahatchee Groves, with work slated to get underway on the new Palm Beach State College campus on Southern Blvd. and capital improvements that will include paving and...

More Outreach The Focus For New ITID Supervisor

The Indian Trail Improvement District enters 2013 with new officers and a new board member who aims to be an independent thinker with the goal of making the district more open to Acreage residents. Supervisor Gary Dunkley was elected in...

Football Coach Matt Dickmann Leaving Seminole Ridge

Seven years after he was named Seminole Ridge High School’s first head football coach, Matt Dickmann announced last month that he would be taking a new coaching position out of state. Next season, Dickmann will coach at Harrison High School...

Pure Thoughts ‘Barns, Boots & Baubles’

Pure Thoughts Horse Rescue held Barns, Boots & Baubles, a fundraiser and wedding, on Saturday, Dec. 29 at its new location at 2833 F Road in Loxahatchee Groves. Pure Thoughts Horse Rescue co-founders CEO Brad Gaver and CFO Jennifer...

Groves Woman Authors Cookbook For Pets

Loxahatchee Groves resident Gemma Maguire Koder has written a book of recipes for cats and dogs. Titled BonzAppetit.com: Cooking with Napoleon, the book was published by AuthorHouse. Proper eating has become a popular issue recently, but it’s not limited to...

2012 In Review: Isaac’s Water Tops Acreage Headlines

Residents of the Acreage experienced twists and turns last year, taking the good with the bad. On one hand, several long-awaited projects moved forward, but on the other, the community was set back by massive flooding. Tropical Storm Isaac crippled...

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Fourth Of July Brings Fun & Fireworks To Wellington

The Village of Wellington held its annual Fourth of July holiday celebration on Friday, July 4 at Village Park....