UPDATE: Was map error on front page of Palm Beach Post yesterday clarified for newspaper readership?

No. Is anyone surprised?

The error in the Post was a front page map published with this headline, “GL Homes eyes project on closed golf course west of Lake Worth”. [emphasis added]

The location of this housing project is between the Village of Wellington and City of Greenacres. The map label should have read, “Suburban Lake Worth” (see map below).

This is not a reporter error. Once again the editor(s) dropped the ball. This is an editor error.

This feature story, above the fold under the banner, was by Post reporter Alexandra Seltzer about,

“[H]undreds of workforce-priced apartments, condos and townhomes on a closed golf course at The Fountains Country Club west of Lake Worth.”

Specifically, the map on the front page produced by “STAFF” mislabeled the map ‘LAKE WORTH’. But whilst technically correct by the reporter who wrote that The Fountains Country Club is “west of Lake Worth” one could also say that country club is west of the Bahamas or west of Spain and Portugal too (see map from PBCPAO below).

The accurate name for that area in unincorporated Palm Beach County is “suburban Lake Worth” or one could also accurately report the location as “unincorporated Greenacres”, “unincorporated Wellington”, or just simply “between Wellington and Greenacres”.

That map published really needed to be clarified for readers but advised everyone not to hold your breath. And the editor did not surprise anyone. The Post rarely corrects things like this. However, Gatehouse Media took over at the Post on May 1st so maybe they’ll usher in a new era of accuracy for the “STAFF” at The Palm Beach Post who produce maps for the news reading public.

The map below from PBCPAO is the area in question reported in the Post today. The Fountains Country Club is west of Jog Rd. and the City of Greenacres and east of the Village of Wellington.

This area is not “LAKE WORTH” as was
mislabeled on the front page today.

This is suburban Lake Worth. Many miles from the actual City of Lake Worth:

On this map Wellington is indicated in blue-green and Greenacres in orange. Not exactly what one would call “west of Lake Worth”.