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Longtime Incumbent Faces Challenge For County Court Seat

Longtime Palm Beach County Court Judge Debra Moses Stephens is being challenged in her bid for re-election to the Group 12 seat by attorney Jaianna Seaborne. The race will be decided in the primary election Tuesday, Aug. 18 with...

ITID Board Approves Final Adjustments For Park Expansion

The Indian Trail Improvement District Board of Supervisors on Wednesday, July 22 held what might be the last weekly board meeting on the completion of Acreage Community Park’s southern extension. The board, which hired a new contractor last December after...

Four Candidates Vying In Democratic Primary For Two Port Commission Seats

Four Democrats are vying in the Tuesday, Aug. 18 primary election for two seats on the Port of Palm Beach Commission. In Group 2, incumbent Port Commissioner Katherine M. Waldron squares off against former Port Commissioner Peyton W. McArthur....

ITID Working With County To Create More Neighborhood-Friendly Roads

The Indian Trail Improvement District has been working with Palm Beach County to improve Coconut Blvd., Orange Blvd., 60th Street North and Royal Palm Beach Blvd. in a manner that will not make those roads throughways for pass-through traffic...

Schools Board Sets Opening Date At Aug. 31 With Distance Learning

The Palm Beach County School Board on Wednesday, July 22 unanimously approved Monday, Aug. 31 as the new start date for students in the 2020-21 school year, beginning with distance learning, returning to classrooms in phases as the situation...

Wellington Approves Planning Study For SR 7 Corridor

The Wellington Village Council recently approved $119,000 for a study designed to examine the State Road 7 corridor to determine the direction and future use for the area surrounding and including the Mall at Wellington Green. The item was pulled...

Lox Council Reduces 2020-21 Budget, Holds Taxes Steady

In a workshop meeting Tuesday, July 21, the Loxahatchee Groves Town Council looked at a mostly unchanged fiscal year 2020-21 budget proposal of $5.5 million, excluding borrowing and capital spending, compared to $5.8 million in the current year. The ad...

No Polling Locations Lost In Royal Palm Beach, But Elections Chief Encourages Vote-By-Mail

The Royal Palm Beach Village Council recently heard a report from Supervisor of Elections Wendy Sartory Link on the status of upcoming elections in light of COVID-19 limitations. Link, who made her presentation remotely during the Thursday, July 16 meeting,...

RPB Council Rejects Request To Use Shingle Roofs At BellaSera

The Royal Palm Beach Village Council on Thursday, July 16 unanimously denied the use of shingle roofs for new models at Lennar’s BellaSera development at the north end of Crestwood Blvd. after hearing 49 letters from current homeowners there...

Apparel Company Donates Masks To Local Charter Schools

Eleven30apparel will donate as many as 20,000 three-ply masks to Palms West Charter School and several of its Renaissance Charter sister schools in Florida. The donation is a collaborative effort among eleven30apparel, Pyra Promotions and Tags4Teachers, eleven30apparel’s nonprofit organization. The...

Protest Aims To Keep Up Momentum For Change

Months into the Black Lives Matter street marches and social media movement that has swept the nation, Wellington continues to be home to one of Palm Beach County’s ongoing peaceful protests, which happen every Saturday afternoon at the intersection...

Council Concerned About Request For Winding Trails Covered Arenas

An attempt to remove the prohibition against permanent covered arenas in Wellington’s Winding Trails development took up nearly two hours of a virtual Wellington Village Council on Tuesday, July 14. While all council members eventually voted for the measure “to...

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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....