Stet News⛳️ From the new trend at golf communities comes this story that leads with a planned $6 million, 10-hole short golf course with holes ranging from 80 to 160 yards at Ballenisles Country Club in Palm Beach Gardens. (South Florida Business Journal $$$)
Hundreds of immigrants with no criminal charges in the United States are being held at Alligator Alcatraz. Mixed among the detainees accused and convicted of crimes are more than 250 people who are listed as having only immigration violations but no criminal convictions or pending charges. (Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times)
🏖️ A former Lake Worth Beach lobbyist has left that role to pitch a massive makeover of the city’s beach and golf course for developers. Richard Pinsky is reaching out to neighborhoods and the business community as the City Commission considers a citywide vote that could open the door to the development proposed by Copperline Partners, golf legend Jack Nicklaus, Hyatt World International, Fortress Investment and Stiles Construction. (ByJoeCapozzi.com)
💌 Palm Beach County Business Development Board sends 500 mailers to New York City firms after Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral primary win. (The Palm Beach Post $$$)
👮🏼♀️ A Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office employee has been suspended for three weeks for spreading rumors about Sheriff Ric Bradshaw’s health after he was reelected. (CBS 12)
🌊 A message from suffragette Susan B. Anthony makes waves at the annual raft race in Lake Worth Beach. (ByJoeCapozzi.com)
Philanthropist Pat Johnson, who with her husband founded the Richard and Pat Johnson Palm Beach County History Museum in West Palm Beach, died July 4 at her home in Palm Beach. She was 94. (Palm Beach Daily News $$$)
🎙️ Stet’s own Joel Engelhardt is the guest on this week’s “Top of Mind Florida” podcast. Joel joins hosts Michael Williams and Brian Crowley for a look at Florida journalism, the public’s need to know and Stet’s new approach to news. (Watch here. Listen here.)
