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Acreage/Loxahatchee/Westlake

ITID Supervisors Dissect Park Policy During Workshop

The Indian Trail Improvement District Board of Supervisors met for three-plus hours recently to go over the district’s 11-page parks and recreation policy nearly line by line. The biggest points of discussion at the Wednesday, June 28 session were where...

Westlake’s Council Not HAPPY With Home Assistance Program

The City of Westlake has $2.5 million sitting in its Housing Assistance Purchase Program Yearly (HAPPY) trust fund to help first-time and lower-income homebuyers, and no way to use it. City Manager Kenneth Cassel and council members agree on the...

Baxter Revs Up Plan For Racetrack At 20-Mile Bend, With OHV Park In ITID

Guzzling 15 gallons of nitromethane fuel in less than four seconds, a top-fuel dragster can hit 330-plus miles per hour over a straight-as-a-ruler, flat-at-as-a-board, quarter-mile track. At a Wednesday, June 21 town hall meeting at the Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center,...

Grant To Allow In-Depth Survey Of Lox Groves Drainage System

A once-in-a-generation survey of the drainage system in the Town of Loxahatchee Groves is slated to get underway this year after the town was awarded a $350,000 grant through Resilient Florida designed to provide a more accurate look at...

ALA Seeks Sponsors For Upcoming Concert Series At Park

The Rock Your Park concert series will be returning to the Acreage Community Park amphitheater in October with monthly shows scheduled through March 2024. Bob Morgan, president of the Acreage Landowners’ Association, which is underwriting the series, is hoping that...

Minto Releases New Homesites In The Woodlands Of Westlake

Minto Communities has released new homesites for its Indigo Collection of home designs at the Woodlands of Westlake, the newest single-family neighborhood available for sale in the Westlake master-planned community. The collection offers eleven floorplans that will be built on...

Children From PBSO Mentoring Program Visit Big Dog

The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office Mentoring Program brought children to Big Dog Ranch Rescue in Loxahatchee Groves on Monday, June 12 for a day full of fun activities. The all-day camp/retreat allowed the kids time to work with...

Indian Trail Board Agrees To Study Millings Petition Process

To mill or not to mill? And by what process should homeowners in The Acreage decide? Those were the questions several 94th Street North residents were asking at the Wednesday, June 7 meeting of the Indian Trail Improvement District Board...

Preliminary Tax, Assessment Rates Unchanged In Lox Groves

Starting up its annual budget process, the Loxahatchee Groves Town Council set its preliminary tax and assessments rates for the upcoming fiscal year at a meeting on Tuesday, June 6. The preliminary rates were set at the same level...

New Westlake Publix Expected To Be Driver For Further Growth

The large and long-awaited Publix supermarket, which includes a pharmacy and liquor store, is open in the Westlake Plaza on Seminole Pratt Whitney Road, but growth in the City of Westlake isn’t taking a breather. At the Westlake City Council’s...

Magazine Ranks Minto Communities Among Top 50 Builders In U.S.

For the second time in as many months, Minto Communities USA has been recognized among the top 100 builders in the U.S. Minto ranked 45th on Builder magazine’s 2023 annual Builder 100 list — up from the 55th position...

Town Of Lox Groves Recognizes PBSC’s 90th Anniversary With A Proclamation

Palm Beach State College received a special proclamation recognizing its 90th anniversary from the Town of Loxahatchee Groves during a town council meeting on Tuesday, June 6. Accepting the honor on behalf of the College from Loxahatchee Groves Mayor Laura...

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Jingle Bell 5K Brings Runners To Village Park

The 12th annual Wellington Jingle Bell 5K Run was held Sunday, Dec. 22 at Village Park. Hundreds of runners...