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Another Outstanding Season For Wellington Landings Girls Soccer

For the third time in the last four years, the girls soccer team from Wellington Landings Middle School reached the final of Palm Beach County’s middle school girls soccer championship. In 2022 and 2023, Wellington Landings won the championship game...

Bronco Baseball Team Stuns Visiting Forest Hill On Senior Night

The conclusion to the Palm Beach Central High School versus Forest Hill High School baseball game on senior night at Palm Beach Central on Tuesday, April 1 was no joke. It was a game that every player, coach, umpire...

New PBSO Captain For The Acreage, Groves And Westlake

In the early 1990s, when Robert Sandt first trekked through the palmetto scrub of what is now part of the western communities, he was hunting hogs and a good time with his buddies. Today, Sandt is here hunting lawbreakers...

Hmara, Sharps Win Seats In Royal Palm Beach Election

Jeff Hmara, who has been serving as mayor of Royal Palm Beach since the unexpected passing of former Mayor Fred Pinto last September, was elected to the position by village voters Tuesday, March 11. Hmara garnered 1,498 votes (58.33 percent),...

Wellington Council Moves Forward With Lake Worth Road Roundabout

The Wellington Village Council agreed to move ahead with a $257,000 engineering consulting contract to get things moving with a roundabout at busy Lake Worth Road and 120th Avenue South, approving the deal in a meeting Tuesday, March 11. That...

ITID Board Supports ‘Day Pass’ Plan To Use Some Park Fields

The Indian Trail Improvement District Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 at a meeting Tuesday, March 18 to establish a permitting procedure for anyone wishing to use the ball fields at Acreage Community Park North. It came as part of a...

Paul Coleman Wins Seat On Groves Town Council

In the three-way race for Seat 4 on the Loxahatchee Groves Town Council, candidate Paul T. Coleman II was the clear choice of the voters, winning a three-year term at the election held on Tuesday, March 11. Coleman took 227...

Two New Members Take Seats On Loxahatchee Groves Council

On Tuesday, March 18, two new members took their seats on the Loxahatchee Groves Town Council during a meeting that also featured a “State of the Town” address by Mayor Anita Kane. At the meeting, the council accepted a report...

Wellington Committee Learns About Growing Danger Of ‘E-Bikes’

More than a dozen arrests in Wellington, and multiple deaths including one this month in Jupiter, are turning the spotlight on an exploding profusion of small electric vehicles, including bicycles, scooters and motorcycles, increasingly falling under the handlebar grip...

Indian Trail Board Passes Conduct Code After February Fracas

After a particularly intense dust-up between members of the Indian Trail Improvement Board of Supervisors on Wednesday, Feb. 19, a special meeting was called for Monday, March 10 to consider a “code of conduct” for board members. It was...

RPBHS Principal Reports On Plan To Enhance Student Success

By Christopher Vargas Royal Palm Beach High School has made significant strides in enhancing its academic programs, clubs and career academies, thanks to the leadership of Principal Dr. Shakeica Robinson, who assumed her role in early June 2024. Robinson, alongside students...

Local Gourmet Mushroom Farm Funds Rare Fruit Experiment

Did you know that the common banana might go extinct? While humans currently eat about 150 Cavendish bananas a year, the species faces a serious threat from a fungal ailment called Panama disease, which could lead to its extinction....

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Babington Foundation Holds Lip Sync Fundraiser

On Sunday, March 30, the Kevin Babington Foundation held its annual Kevin’s Rockstars Lip Sync Fundraiser. Babington, an Irish...