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YourVoiceWeekly.com VOL. 3/ISSUE 3
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2014
Commission Fit and poised elections could be structured differently — not likely to happen Patrick McCallister STAFF WRITER
pmccallister@YourVoiceWeekly.com
MARTIN COUNTY — The 2014 political season is done. It’s remarkable only in its unremarkable outcome. Those who thought and claimed voters wanted change in Martin County — as is so often the election
season refrain throughout time and geography — committed political miscalculation. Martin voters kept all the incumbents they could. Change wasn’t on their minds. Sarah Heard and Ed Fielding handily kept the two County Commission seats that were up to the voters, districts 2 and 4.
See ELECTION page 4
More Indian River Lagoon money may be on the way Patrick McCallister and Brandon Zeris STAFF WRITERS
TREASURE COAST — The Indian River Lagoon might be getting some much-needed healing sooner rather than later, thanks to a bipartisan pair of representatives. That hope
for help recently passed a vote in the House of Representatives, but 101 others still have to weigh in on their plan, namely the Senate and president. “It’s another nice win for our lagoon and our efforts to clean up our water,” Congressman Patrick Murphy, D-Jupiter, said in a phone interview after the
See LAGOON page 3 14749
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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer Nicole Neargarder, 15, of Palm City earned the overall first place position in the fitness division at the NPC Gold Cup at the Palm Beach Convention Center Saturday, Nov. 15. Nicole is a student at the Clark Advanced Learning Center and has been competing for two years.
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