Katerinag's Blog: Community News

Florida ranks 4th in the nation for tech industry jobs and our area of South Florida leads the pack according to Cybercities 2007 report just released. 

There is a lot of competition among states to attract the high tech companies. Miami/Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties has 75,278 tech industry employees in 2005. They were paid an average annual wage of $61,600 and the employees working in the software part of the industry got paid an average of $86,400. 

Florida is the second fastest growing Cyberstate. Florida only trails California, Texas and New York. I am not sure that our legislature comprehends these facts because they are so slow to act on issues regarding high tech companies moving here. Florida has great potential to continue to grow…

Locals in and out of the Equestrian community here in Wellington Florida, an Equestrian stronghold as well as all other Equestrian circles are talking about the Stadium Jumping move and Mark Bellissimo's plans for LittleFarms. Media Phelps group, a local Public Relations company has been issuing press releases about Stadium Jumping and Jean Mische and the news agencies are picking it up like there is no tomorrow!

It makes the non horse people wonder what all the fuss is about and also ask " what does this have to do me?" Well, it has a lot to do with you and every resident of Wellington Florida. In fact, all the residents of Palm Beach County are affected by these guys. Why? Because horse money is very important to our economy here in Wellington,…

If you are following the long saga of Mark Bellissimo and Glenn Straub you will be happy to know that perhaps their woes are over, for the time being anyways. Glenn Straub agreed to sell his Palm Beach Polo Equestrian Club to developer Mark Bellissimo for $25 Million. Hopefully this means their lawsuits against each other are over and done with. There was so much infighting going on people were concerned how all this contention was going to affect the Equestrian events that Wellington is so famous for. 

Mark Bellissimo said he is going to make the showgrounds part of a multi-million dollar, 140 acre show facility with varied year round Equestrian events. He wants to make this the " Center of The Equestrian Universe".

Bellissimo and Straub were headed to…

The Village Of Wellington just shut down their approval of Mische's Stadium Jumping proposal because the approval is only favoring one party- Stadium Jumping! Laurie Cohen decided to bring this up and to delay the vote stating it was only benefiting Stadium Jumping. The Village did approve to move it to vote  at the rehearing on August 20th. 

There are landowners who are concerned about what this will do to their property values because of new restrictions it will place on horse arenas. The new ordinance would require the landowners already living in this section of Wellington to have to go before the Village and plead their case for building their horse arenas instead of simply applying for a permit which now is the case. This gives the Village the power…

The Village of Wellington  turned down Mark Bellissimo's request for a parking rule change. This rule needed to be changed in order for the Tavern On The Green, Wellington to be re-opened since it was closed earlier this summer because of parking issues with the Village Of  Wellington.

 Jenny LeRoy (Oz) of the famed New York Eatery, Tavern On The Green opened up the Wellington’s Tavern On The Green in the Equestrian Club in Wellington Florida. Jenny is an avid rider and comes here during the Equestrian seasons.

She went into partnership with Mark Bellissimo who may or may not have disclosed the extent of the parking problem. Even from the beginning of the Tavern opening they had problems with the Village of Wellington.

Well,it seems as though… Read Full Post

Emerald Cove Middle School in Wellington Florida is scheduled to open this month for the new school year and relieve crowding in the middle schools. 1,000 students will be attending Emerald Cove Middle School this fall. It is on Pierson Blvd.

The school day will begin at 9:00 a.m. and is over at 3:35 p.m. There are wood floors and the bleachers are made of real wood. Every classroom is equipped with white boards, a cd/dvd player, a document camera and an LCD projection system. They have a television studio next to a large library and the music room have acoustic mufflers.

Welcome back to school in Wellington Florida! Read Full Post

Wellington Florida's Town leadership decided to raise the city tax above what is recommended by the state. There were many residents of Wellington that came to the meeting to say that they moved to Wellington for the great parks and activities and they did not want those services affected by the new state tax reduction on property taxes. Business people did not want the taxes raised and the residents did not mind. They said it boils down to the price of a Pepsi a day to keep the parks and activities in place.

I am a resident of Wellington and have children. I was against the taxes being raised. My feeling is that they raise them once, they will raise them again. There are many other ways they can cut the budget.They are cle During the glut of the hot… Read Full Post

Traffic coming home to Wellington has really been miserable lately if you have to travel on West Southern Blvd. Well, actually going east is bad too! I always take another route and avoid Southern Blvd whenever I possibly can.

They said they are moving the west bound barricades in just a few weeks! Yeah! Doesn't it seem like this has been going on forever?

The contractor, Community Asphalt says that their goal is to complete the shifting of traffic over to the new overpass sometime in September. They also said this time frame could change with the weather! Well, it seems the weather may have been delaying this project for 7 years now!!!

The four lane highway is being widened to eight lanes. When this project is finished it will Palm Beach… Read Full Post