Another public meeting in this City of Lake Worth and another tombstone ad published in The Palm Beach Post.

PLEASE TAKE NOTE the City Commission
of the City of Lake Worth, will consider
on first reading. . .

Our LOCAL paper of record is
The Lake Worth Herald.

The ad in the Post has met all the City’s legal requirements but . . . “Honest to God!”

The latest tombstone ad from the City of Lake Worth was published in the Post on Friday, May 4th; eleven days prior to this public meeting.

See the ad below publicly noticing a public meeting on Tuesday, May 15th about the City’s Land Development Regulations (LDRs). When is comes to things like the LDRs the word “public” is a very big deal.


Tombstone ads are typically unadorned text, black on white, often enclosed in a simple box, with a centered headline and a number of lines in the body of the ad, usually also centered. The name originates from their similarity in appearance to the text on a tombstone (headstone) grave marker.


Reacting to tombstone ads published in the Post, below is a quote from Lake Worth resident Mary Lindsey at the City Commission on April 24th:


“Commissioner [Scott] Maxwell is 100% right. As a community we went through hell for 7½ years putting these pulling LDRs together. A big part of the issue then [2010–2011] I see has continued and it’s lack of public notification.
     I understand it’s a publicly noticed meeting and that all the legal requirements for that are met.
     But somebody please for the love of Dear Holy Jesus tell my why we would spend one nickel notifying anybody of anything in The Palm Beach Post, especially the legal notices, when we have our very own local community paper of record [The Lake Worth Herald].
     Honest to God!”

True. This ad meets all the legal requirements
publicly noticing a public meeting:

Mary Lindsey is absolutely correct. The Lake Worth Herald needs to be our LOCAL paper of record publicly noticing public meetings. This ad needs to appear in this week’s Herald. And the Neigh- borhood Assoc. Presidents’ Council and our City’s neighborhoods need to be publicly notified as well.