Stet News🏌 Errant golf balls launched by duffers at the city-owned Lake Worth Beach Golf Club have been pelting dozens of homes along North Lakeside Drive and North Palmway in Lake Worth Beach. Sliced drives have smashed windshields and house windows, dented cars and front doors, splashed into swimming pools and ripped flower beds. Residents demand the city do something about it. (ByJoeCapozzi.com)
🚫 West Palm Beach has barred a private boat rental club, JetRide, from operating on the city’s downtown waterfront and required a water-recreation company, Visit Palm Beach, to end some services after a warning that their activities violated state rules. (The Palm Beach Post $$$)
🇧🇸 A delegation from Freeport, The Bahamas, visited Riviera Beach last week to revive their sister city connection. (WPTV)
🎤 Lake Worth Beach is promoting a visit by “Fox & Friends” co-host Steve Doocy, who launched his new project, “Morning Walk,” last week in the city. Fox anchor Bret Baier joined Doocy, 68, on a sunrise stroll on the city’s public pier. He praised the vibe, chatted with actor George Hamilton and gave a nod to Benny’s on the Beach. On Friday, Doocy’s morning walk was aboard a PonTiki boat on the intracoastal off Jupiter Inlet Colony. He and his wife Kathy own a home there. (Lake Worth Beach segment, PonTiki segment)
🐠 How the Children’s Services Council and West Palm Beach’s Small Fish Big Fish Swim School are helping reverse the higher-than-average drowning rate for children with autism. (The Associated Press)
Quote of the week: “One of the initiatives that (developer) Steve (Ross) asked me to become involved in is helping the city, as much as they will accept the help, to develop more of an enhanced aggressive development approach.” — Eric Silagy, former chief executive of FPL, who joined development company Related Ross last week as vice chair. (The Palm Beach Post $$$)
