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SRHS Football Hopes For Continued Success With New Coach

The fall high school football season is underway, and the Seminole Ridge High School football team hopes to carry over last season’s success with new head coach Rick Casko. The Hawks finished 8-3 last season and made it to the...

Reconfigured RPB Education Board Holds Inaugural Meeting

By Eve Rosen The first meeting of Royal Palm Beach’s newly reconfigured Education Advisory Board took place Monday, Aug. 13. The meeting was mostly for introducing the new members to each other and going over some basic rules of local...

Loxahatchee Groves Council Switches To Back-To-Back Meetings

The Loxahatchee Groves Town Council agreed last week to switch to two meetings per month on a Tuesday at 7 p.m., followed by an additional meeting on Wednesday to complete the agenda, along with a public input meeting at...

Wellington Budget Workshop Focuses On Capital Projects

The Wellington Village Council gathered with staff on Monday, Aug. 13 for a one-hour budget workshop discussing all proposed capital projects for the 2018-19 fiscal year. Because capital projects are a large portion of the village’s budget, the brief workshop...

County OKs Agreement For LGWCD To Maintain Enclave Areas

The Palm Beach County Commission approved an interlocal agreement with the Town of Loxahatchee Groves on Tuesday to allow the town, through the Loxahatchee Groves Water Control District, to continue to provide services to an unincorporated portion of the...

Traffic A Concern As Royal Palm Beach Board OKs Acme Ranches Changes

“Traffic” seemed to be the word on everyone’s mind at the Tuesday, Aug. 14 meeting of the Royal Palm Beach Planning & Zoning Commission. Sitting as the Local Planning Agency, the board approved a number of land use changes...

Dr. Adam Miller Named Director Of Educational Technology

Long-time Royal Palm Beach resident Dr. Adam Miller, the former principal at Golden Grove Elementary School, has taken the next step in his administrative career by becoming the new director of educational technology for the School District of Palm...

Some Paddock Park Residents Seek To Keep Horses On Their Properties

By Chris Levy Some residents of Paddock Park Phase I seeking to be allowed to keep horses on their properties addressed their wishes to the Wellington Village Council on Tuesday, Aug. 14. Marysue Jacobs, who owns a residential property on Haymarket...

Wellington Again Considering A Linear Park Serving Folkstone/Yarmouth Area

By Chris Levy The Village of Wellington is again considering a linear park in the Folkstone/Yarmouth neighborhood as part of its Safe Neighborhoods Program, and a community information session on the proposal will be held at the park site on...

Wellington Council Approves $17 Million Update For Water Plant

The Wellington Village Council discussed water plant improvements and the village’s Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program on Tuesday, Aug. 14. The council unanimously approved the plan for the renewal, replacement and expansion of the village’s water treatment plant on...

Lox Council Approves Amendments For Groves Town Center

The Loxahatchee Groves Town Council last week approved the preliminary reading of an amendment to the 90-acre Groves Town Center application with several conditions recommended by the council sitting as the town’s Local Planning Agency (LPA). The commercial-low-zoned property owned...

Local BurgerFi Hosts Radio Show To Support Red Apple Supplies

By Erin Davisson On Saturday, Aug. 11, the BurgerFi restaurant in Wellington hosted a school supply drive to benefit Red Apple Supplies, a program run by the Education Foundation of Palm Beach County that supports schools in high-need areas. Throughout the...

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Murder Mystery Brings Intrigue To Wellington Green

The Village of Wellington collaborated with the Mall at Wellington Green on Saturday, July 19 for a summertime murder...