Friday, April 25, 2025

Royal Palm Beach

RPB To Continue Summer Basketball Academy

The Village of Royal Palm Beach held the first session of its Summer Basketball Academy from Monday, June 18 through Thursday, June 21 at the Royal Palm Beach Recreation Center. New Royal Palm Beach High School Coach Rob Long...

RPBHS Debaters End A Successful Year

The Royal Palm Beach High School speech and debate team competed at both national tournaments against thousands students from across the nation with outstanding results. Again, the Wildcats rose to the top of ranks in the district, state and...

Nursing School Seeks To Open In Royal Palm

The Royal Palm Beach Village Council granted preliminary approval last week to a company seeking to open a nursing school at the former CVS Pharmacy location in the Royal Plaza shopping center. Shaker Health Holdings is requesting a special exception...

RPB Council Gives Liggins A Glowing Evaluation

The Royal Palm Beach Village Council gave a generally positive evaluation of Village Manager Ray Liggins at his annual performance review Thursday, June 7. Vice Mayor Fred Pinto said he thought Liggins is carrying out all the duties expected of...

An Evening With Copeland Davis

My Brother’s/Sister’s Keeper Charitable Trust held its fifth annual “Copeland Davis & Friends Concert” on Sunday, June 10 at the Royal Palm Beach Cultural Center. Event organizer Randy Pfeiffer opened the evening by thanking the many people who joined them...

PBSO Honors Royal Palm Student

Royal Palm Beach Elementary School student Jack Powell received a special certificate of heroism from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office District 9 substation during the school’s award ceremony Wednesday, June 6. Powell was honored for saving a fellow...

RPB Privatizes Some Landscaping In Planning For Park

Royal Palm Beach is considering hiring a private landscaping firm to maintain eight of its more passive parks and move current maintenance staff to jobs tending the new Royal Palm Beach Commons Park when it opens. The change, which was...

Crime Down, But Burglaries Are Up In Royal Palm

Crime is down overall in Royal Palm Beach, although burglaries were up in 2011, according to Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Paul Miles, who gave his annual report to the Royal Palm Beach Village Council on May 17. “Overall,...

Pinto Urges RPB Residents To Apply For Zoning Seat

The Royal Palm Beach Village Council has re-advertised for Planning & Zoning Commission applicants after a candidate selected for membership withdrew her application. One position remains open after candidate Ana Martinez, an architect, declined her appointment, which came at the...

Oldest RPB Church Needs Financial Help To Survive

Fifty years in the community and $300,000 in debt, Royal Palm Covenant Church is in desperate need of money and in jeopardy of closing its doors. Not just a place of worship, but a community gathering point, the church long...

RPB Urges School District To Pay Bus Depot Fines

The Royal Palm Beach Village Council reluctantly granted the Palm Beach County School District approval last week to expand its bus parking in the Royal Palm Business Park off State Road 7 — although the school district had already...

470 Wildcat Grads Bid Farewell To RPBHS

The nearly 470 members of Royal Palm Beach High School’s Class of 2012 celebrated the end of their high school careers Monday morning at graduation exercises held at the South Florida Fairgrounds. Newly appointed Palm Beach County Schools Superintendent E....

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García High School To Stage ‘High School Musical’

When Tony Award-winning high school theater director Jason Zembuch Young and his students reached out to local community leaders...