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...
The Acreage Landowners’ Association hosted a primer on how the community’s canals and drainage systems work, during a special meeting Monday, Sept. 10.
About 30 people gathered in the Seminole Ridge High School auditorium for “Canals 101,” a presentation put...
By Gene Nardi
The Seminole Ridge High School varsity football team held its season opener against Park Vista on Friday, Sept. 7 at Callery-Judge Stadium, with the third-ranked Hawks falling to the seventh-ranked Cobras 21-7.
The Hawks’ original season opener scheduled...
The Indian Trail Improvement District, in coordination with Palm Beach County’s Emergency Operations Center, issued an announcement Wednesday putting Acreage residents near the J.W. Corbett Wildlife Management Area berm on alert to be prepared to take appropriate action in...
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...
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...
Residents of The Acreage have a new vehicle to share their opinions on a Facebook group called “The Acreage Speaks.”
Created in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Isaac, the group has grown rapidly in just two weeks. As of Wednesday,...
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...
More than a foot of rain from Tropical Storm Isaac brought flooding throughout the western communities — especially in The Acreage.
As of Wednesday night, many parts of The Acreage remained inundated with standing water.
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Two-time cancer survivor Diane O’Connor is asking for support from the community for the 2013 American Cancer Society Loxahatchee/Acreage Relay for Life. As the 2013 event chair, she is gearing up early, recruiting committee members and getting fundraising efforts...
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...
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...
