Update: Upcoming independent Lake Worth Beach tour guide for visitors to this unique and special place.

In brief, this guide will be a quick and easy way to encourage everyone to explore more about this place.

This will be a short accumulation of LOCAL sources of information without the GIGO that pops up all the time using zip codes and data trapping that ends up on the TV news and regional newspapers and then served to the public as news. Lake Worth News has GIGO. But there is accurate news too.

Know there is GIGO on the Lake Worth Wikipedia page too. The word “Beach” in Lake Worth Beach was edited out in many places but there is a lot of accurate information too. The advice in the guide will be just ignore any GIGO you see or just find another source to be your one to turn to:

GIGO  =  Garbage In Garbage Out.

So if you are considering a visit to Lake Worth Beach or just stopping by to visit this blog today let’s proceed.

Briefly, on March 19th Lake Worth Beach became official. For a really good regional perspective on this please read an article by Linda Trischitta at the Sun Sentinel headlined,

‘We are unique’: How this city’s new name, Lake Worth Beach, is making waves

On that topic renaming this City it is indeed making waves and in a very funny way. About the recent Pride Fest Festival the steps taken by reporters at The Palm Beach Post to avoid using the “Beach” has reached the comical stage. You cannot avoid laughing and will not believe how many clever and not-so-clever ways they’ve come up with to ignore the beach in Lake Worth Beach.

Below is a lot of information from the upcoming guide about this City that has managed to befuddle the regional press and news media for many, many decades and provided a lot of entertainment on the TV news. Some of those stories are legendary.

However, little information about the past will be in the upcoming guide but this City’s past relationship with the press and news media is one of the reasons why this place became Lake Worth Beach in the first place. That relationship is an integral part of that story in both an excellent way, good, bad or indifferent or just plain hideous too.

So let’s briefly explore this story and then move on.

For example, some in the press and news media still cannot comprehend how Lake Worth Beach can own an Electric Utility. Stunned look and the eyes glaze over. It’s been said to help some reporters find this place they need a Sherpa guide, percussion drums and smoke signals.

But finding this unique place is not hard at all like it is for transplanted reporters who are unaccustomed to being transplanted from a place they know to another place they don’t know often with hilarious consequences.

But there are standouts and there is exceptional news reporting in Palm Beach County such as by WPTV (NBC5) and that is the recommended viewing for TV news whilst your visit to this City. And there is some not-so-good-news as well. Lake Worth Beach still does not have a hotel in the downtown or a parking garage either. The good news is those hurdles are and will be addressed.

In the meantime West Palm Beach does not have a beach but they do have plenty of hotel rooms. 

In about 1½ weeks the guide will be complete with a cooler name. This online LWB guide will be a helpful online one for visitors, tourists, the business community, marketing professionals and others interested in learning more about the Lake Worth metropolitan area and the City of Lake Worth Beach: where things are and how to get there.

This effort will be independent of but include information from:

• Lake Worth Beach City Hall.
• The Visitors’ Center in the City Hall Annex.
• Lake Worth Beach Community Redevelopment Agency.
• Lake Worth Beach and Casino Complex.
• The LOCAL Lake Worth Herald weekly newspaper.

And everyone is encouraged to visit, learn and read these sources for daily, weekly and monthly news.

And yes, the acronym LWB is acceptable and it is proper in some cases just like WPB is short for West Palm Beach which does not have a beach.

In fact this headline appeared in The Lake Worth Herald today referencing a recent City press release:

LWB Library Celebrates National Library Week

Also happening in LWB is an exciting project called “Wayfinding” and next week is an event called “The Next Big Thing!” but you must RSVP with the CRA by tomorrow (Friday, 4/5, 4:00) to guarantee a seat at this event. Call 561-493-2550 or send an email to: ETheodossakos@lakeworth.org

Although there will always be errors in the press and news media intentionally misleading people will not be tolerated. House style is one thing but just using zip codes in news reporting is completely wrong, whether it’s house style or not. A little later is a brief example.

And whether you plan your visit using a guide or any other source always verify your plans ahead of time and plan for detours. For example, you may be planning a visit to the PBC Cultural Council but get detoured at The Book Cellar bookstore or Callaro’s Steak House across the street.

And know that for whatever Lake Worth Beach lacks you most probably will find to the west of the City and there will be examples of that as well.

However, note these phrases are inaccurate and misleading:

• “In Lake Worth-area”
• “Near Lake Worth”
• “Western Lake Worth”
• “Close to Lake Worth”

Reporters should already know where Lake Worth Beach is. What the professionals in the news media should be doing is educating others like a few reporters at CBS12 (WPEC) who keep reporting about terrible incidents ‘in Lake Worth’ but the latest report on CBS12 was a tragedy that occurred in a mobile home community bordering another municipality out west in unincorporated Palm Beach County in zip code 33462. Lake Worth Beach only uses zip code 33460 and part of 33461.

Along with the guide will be instructions on how to locate anything in Palm Beach County — even the most difficult ones to find — in just about two minutes or less with just very little information. It’s not looking “for a needle in a haystack”.

For example, just yesterday corrected news in The Palm Beach Post. The restaurant called Big Herm’s Chicago Style Food reported as ‘in Lake Worth’ is actually on the outskirts of Wellington in the Lake Worth metro area far from Lake Worth Beach.

Where Big Herm’s is located is of minor consequence. But that place reported as ‘in Lake Worth near Wellington’ would help a reader better decide whether or not to visit that particular eatery or find another one locally like TooJay’s in Lake Worth Beach instead.

Enjoy your visit to Lake Worth Beach!

Because the next time you visit Lake Worth Beach this place will be different. Like your favorite store in Lake Worth Beach might add the “Beach” to its name or the Lake Worth Beach parking garage will be under construction and maybe Gonz in Lake Worth Beach will be renting golf carts by the day.


Every visit to Lake Worth Beach will be like
a whole new adventure.

“Thumbs Up to You for visiting Lake Worth Beach once again!”