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New Coach On Board As WHS Football Team Gets Ready For Upcoming Season

A new coaching era for high school football is now underway at Wellington High School. Longtime area head football coach Pete Walker — who has coached at Clewiston High School, Glades Day School and the King’s Academy — is...

Palm Beach Central Football Focused On Another Big Year

The Palm Beach Central High School football team is expected to continue its winning ways on the gridiron this coming fall. After a series of deep post-season runs in the Florida High School Athletic Association’s (FHSAA) Class 7A playoffs in...

WHS Boys Swim Team In Strong Form For Fall Competition Season

The Wellington High School boys varsity swim team is poised for another great season in the pool. Under the guidance of head coach Richard Whalen, a number of the male swimmers are expected to conclude their fall season as competitors...

Two WHS Football Teammates Now Working Together On The LPGA Tour

The lives of lifelong Wellington resident Tyler Jolly and current Royal Palm Beach resident Logan Robinson continue to operate in sync. After being classmates at Wellington High School and teammates on the WHS football team from 2013 to 2016,...

TKA Lions Varsity Football Squad Ready For The Fall Season

The King’s Academy’s 2025 varsity football team has a tough act to follow, but head coach Dan Burack feels that this year’s squad can have an even better season than last year’s team. TKA’s 2024 varsity football team had an...

Northlake Closure Expected To Start On Friday, Aug. 1

As the western communities brace for a traffic tsunami caused by the complete closure of Northlake Blvd. at the Beeline Highway, the Town of Loxahatchee Groves is marshaling its forces to make sure that the planned eight-day closure does...

Most ITID Residents Will See A $57-Per-Acre Assessment Jump

Residents of the Indian Trail Improvement District likely will see an assessment increase of one to six percent in fiscal year 2026, following a unanimous vote by the ITID Board of Supervisors on Monday, July 7. The supervisors needed to...

Kids Star At Successful Business Fair At Royal Palm Beach Park

About 60 young CEOs, from about 10 to 18 years old, converged on Todd A. Robiner Park in the La Mancha neighborhood of Royal Palm Beach on Saturday, June 28. They set up about 45 booths selling their products...

Loxahatchee Groves Faces Difficult Budget Year With Loss Of Funding From State

A challenging budget year for the Town of Loxahatchee Groves got all that more difficult on Monday, June 30 when Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed $750,000 in the state budget that the town was counting on to continue its stormwater...

Taxable Value Increases Ease Budgets For Area Municipalities

Taxable property values are rising 7 percent or more in Wellington, Royal Palm Beach and neighboring communities in the latest batch of numbers from the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser’s Office. According to preliminary figures for the upcoming fiscal year,...

Governor’s Veto Pauses Plans For Regional Park In Westlake

With a last-minute stroke of his red budget pen, Gov. Ron DeSantis cut from the fiscal year 2026 state budget the $600,000 that the City of Westlake was counting on to move forward with construction of a 50-acre regional...

Westlake Council Pushes For Fourth Straight Millage Decrease

The Westlake City Council voted unanimously at their Tuesday, July 1 meeting to set the city’s property tax rate unchanged at 4.7 mills for purposes of meeting the state’s Truth In Millage (TRIM) rate deadline. However, by the time Westlake’s...

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Event At Mall Celebrates More Than 150 Educators

The Mall at Wellington Green, in partnership with the Wellington Community Foundation and the Education Foundation of Palm Beach...