News from Palm Beach Post reporter Kristina Webb about this Saturday!

Check out the news at the end of this blog post.

But first, did you know Webb is the new beat reporter for the Village of Wellington, Royal Palm Beach, and the new ‘vibrant’ City of Westlake? She is. Congratulations! Or maybe not. It depends on ones perspective:

Westlake, on their website (see link below) bills itself as, “A Vibrant City in the Heart of Palm Beach County”.

Moving around beat reporters, by the way, is nothing new. What happened to the former beat reporter in Wellington, Matt Morgan? He’s now at the Palm Beach Daily News (aka, The Shiny Sheet; next step for Morgan, the Miami Herald ?).

And more recent news is about Aleese Kopf. Is she still at the Palm Beach Daily News? No! She’s moved on to bigger and better things too. She is now the Marketing and Communications Director for the Town of Palm Beach United Way.

Whilst on the topic of moving around beat reporters. . .

The work continues to switch out the City of Lake Worth’s beat reporter and bring in a fresh new perspective. The consensus is almost everyone wants reporter Lulu Ramadan to cover the Lake Worth beat. The City is saying:

“We want Lulu!”

Wouldn’t it be great to see that first news report by Lulu at LULA? But so far the editors at the Post are not listening to the public, which is nothing new.

The last woman to be the beat reporter here in the City of Lake Worth was Lona O’Connor back in 2013 and by the way, it was O’Connor who first gave the “Cottages of Lake Worth” it’s first feature news story in South Florida. For the history of beat reporters going back to 2008 use this link.

And there’s more!

Remember former City of Lake Worth beat reporter Chris Persaud who won multiple awards from the Society of Professional Journalism? It was after winning all those awards he went on to bigger and better things too. Here’s the latest news from Mr. Persaud titled:

“Florida NIMBYs Can’t Stop America’s First
Private High-Speed Rail”

The article subtitle is,

“In Mar-a-Lago’s backyard, a fast new train and millions of dollars in transit-oriented development are reshaping the landscape.”

Without further ado, the latest news from Kristina Webb in today’s (10/25) print edition of the Post on page B3, below the fold:

“Check out Palm Beach County’s newest municipality [#39] at the Westlake grand opening from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday [Oct. 28th] at 16610 Town Center Parkway North off Seminal Pratt Whitney Road near Seminole Ridge High School in The Acreage. Visitors can tour six model homes and Westlake’s new sales center. There also will be food, face painting, pumpkin painting, lawn games, an obstacle course [which makes sense] for children and a photo booth.”

Pack up the car and rally all the kids!

For more information use the link.