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Childhood Cancer Awareness Event At Skate Zone
The Kids Cancer Foundation held a Childhood Cancer Awareness Celebration on Saturday, Sept. 5 at the Palm Beach Skate Zone. KCF children and families came to the skating rink for a fun afternoon of ice skating and activities. Learn more about the Kids Cancer Foundation at…

Teens Launch Community Drive To Support Families Through Clinics Can Help
Clinics Can Help is bringing a new generation of community advocates to the table with the launch of its CRIBS Junior Committee for its upcoming Cribs for Kids luncheon, led by local students Madison Martinez from Wellington High School and Sinedine Sundstrom of American Heritage…

Goodbye, Palm Beach International Airport
Gov. Ron DeSantis names PBI after his ‘friend’ President Donald Trump Words and illistration by Hunter Anderson Well, it’s official! After $5.5 million in state and local funding, Palm Beach International Airport has been renamed President Donald J. Trump International Airport.…

And the winners are…
For the 16th year, Florida Weekly’s readers have proven themselves to also be writers. From May to July, we ran a series of 10 photo prompts for our annual Writing Challenge, and our readers sent 419 short stories in response. Now, we begin our next weekly series to give you the…

Its hardship is its possibility
I live in a Florida county, one of 67, with a full bouquet of political parties, although the more accurate term might be political persuasions. There are Democrats, Republicans, Independents, libertarians, socialists, rightists, leftists, conservatives, and, for lack of better…

TKA, WHS And PBCHS Open Football Season With Big Wins
After the first few weeks of the regular season, three of the five high school football teams in the western communities remain undefeated — the King’s Academy (3-0), Wellington High School (2-0) and Palm Beach Central High School (2-0). The King’s Academy — The TKA Lions opened…

Reflections on some photos
Win Everham — Professor Edwin “Win” Everham, Ph. D. — has studied altered landscapes since 1996 from his post now at The Water School at Florida Gulf Coast University. I asked him to look at photos of the near 40-square-mile landscape taken not long before it became Alligator…