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Tucked away in the original Wellington Mall, down the aisle from Woody’s of Wellington and around the corner from the offices of the Town-Crier, is a cramped, busy dry cleaner and tailor shop called Nutinfits. Small...
It will be at least another month before a settlement is reached between Wellington and representatives of the Equestrian Village project after members of the Wellington Village Council postponed responding to a settlement offer Tuesday.
At the Oct. 23 meeting,...
Just in time for Halloween, ShowChic dressage boutique was filled with skeletons and a crowd as physical therapist Stacey Brown discussed the biomechanics of dressage for both horse and rider.
Located in Wellington, ShowChic hosts the monthly ShopTalks, sponsored by...
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The Acreage is a rural community originally built with horse owners in mind. All of the streets were dirt back then: nice soft dirt, mind you, not shell rock. Vehicles drove slowly, and there were tons...
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Like many of us, Linda Sax was somewhat caught by surprise when Tropical Storm Isaac’s annoying persistent rain bands visited a while back... and stayed.
Sax lives in The Acreage and boards her two horses with a...
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Susan the Saddle Diva didn’t think twice when someone called wanting to sell her some saddles. That’s what she does, after all — buy and sell used saddles and tack.
“It was Thursday night, July 12,” she...
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Victoria McCullough loves animals, especially horses. She’s exuberantly ecstatic over all things equine, and lucky for them, her extremely well-heeled feet are planted firmly on the ground even while her head and heart spin grand ideas...
Ken Adams, a former Palm Beach County Commission chairman, horseman and a Wellington pioneer, spoke about the village’s potential as an equestrian community at the monthly community forum hosted by Commissioner Jess Santamaria last week at the original Wellington...
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Wouldn’t life be easy if horses fit into cars? We’d hold open the door, perhaps flip the front seat forward, and the horse could step gingerly into the back seat, hang his head out the window,...
Members of the Wellington Equestrian Preserve Committee had a chance last week to review the preliminary draft of a report giving an overview of Wellington’s equestrian community.
The report encompasses all the information on the equestrian community gathered as part...
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Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of columns by Ellen Rosenberg on Tropical Storm Isaac and the equestrian community.
Horses and standing water are a bad mix. Hooves can rot, develop white line disease...
Palm Beach County Health Department officials say residents and horse owners should remain vigilant of West Nile virus and other mosquito-borne diseases in the aftermath of the recent flooding.
One horse in Loxahatchee was euthanized last week after contracting West...
