Jenna Larson was recognized by the Okeechobee County School Board on Aug. 9 for her achievements with the FFA this year.
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By Richard Marion
Lake Okeechobee News | 8/10/23 |
The Lakefront Estates project is moving forward. At the Aug. 8 meeting of the Glades County Commission, County Attorney Richard Pringle ...
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By Katrina Elsken
Lake Okeechobee News | 8/8/23 |
Sheriff Noel E. Stephen announces that earlier in the week, the Okeechobee Narcotics Task Force members arrested multiple individuals …
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By Cpl. Jack Nash
PIO OCSO | 8/8/23 |
A presentation on the Lower Kissimmee Basin Stormwater Treatment Area Project (LKBSTA) is planned for 10 a.m. on Aug. 10 ...
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By Katrina Elsken
Lake Okeechobee News | 8/8/23 |
A 12,000-acre reservoir north of Lake Okeechobee could help reduce damaging high water levels in the big lake ...
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By Katrina Elsken
Lake Okeechobee News | 8/8/23 |
According to HHS, while covid hospitalizations and deaths have slowed, ...
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By Katrina Elsken
Lake Okeechobee News | 8/8/23 |
Algal blooms continue to be reported all over the state as the summer heat intensifies.
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By Katrina Elsken
Lake Okeechobee News | 8/7/23 |
When we hear about someone who was scammed, it is often easy to look at the situation from the outside and wonder how it could happen.
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By Cathy Womble
Lake Okeechobee News | 8/7/23 |
Lake Okeechobee continues its summer rise as heavy rainfall directly into the big lake adds to the inflow from the Kissimmee River basin.
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By Katrina Elsken
Lake Okeechobee News | 8/4/23 |
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has “banked” nearly 2 feet of extra water in Lake Okeechobee in the past year.
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Katrina Elsken
Lake Okeechobee News | 8/4/23 |
A heat wave can be miserable, or it can be wonderful. For one Okeechobee teen, it was the latter.
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By Cathy Womble
Lake Okeechobee News | 8/4/23 |
Okeechobee Music Festival will take 2024 as a fallow year. Soundslinger plans to bring it back stronger, better, and reminiscent of the first OMF in 2016 ...
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By Katrina Elsken
Lake Okeechobee News | 8/3/23 |
The atmosphere was somber, and quiet sobs filled the Okeechobee County courtroom ...
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By Cathy Womble
Lake Okeechobee News | 8/3/23 |
A Glades County man was injured Monday, July 31 while trying to rescue his dog from an alligator.
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By Katrina Elsken
Lake Okeechobee News | 8/2/23 |
Veteran Robert “Bob” Morrison joined the Army Reserves at the ripe old age of 14.
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By Cathy Womble
Lake Okeechobee News | 8/2/23 |
Usually when you hear the phrase, “this is for the dogs,” it is not a good thing, but in the case of Main Street’s newest addition, it is.
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By Cathy Womble
Lake Okeechobee News | 8/1/23 |
Special Olympic Athlete Carol Marker became a National Champion last year at the Special Olympics North American tournament in South Carolina.
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In the late afternoon of Sunday, July 30, 2023, the Okeechobee County Sheriff's Office responded to a head-on crash…
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By Cpl. Jack Nash
PIO OCSO | 7/31/23 |
The splash pad under construction at the Okeechobee County Sports Complex is nearing completion.
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By Richard Marion
Lake Okeechobee News | 7/31/23 |
OKEECHOBEE Emergency Operations Center employees in Okeechobee County were startled to find a hole in the parking lot ...
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By Cathy Womble
Lake Okeechobee News | 7/31/23 |