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VOL. 1/ISSUE 16
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2013
Fast pitch, slow slide Ashley Gamacher, 13, of Palm City lays a tag on her opponent during the season opener of the Martin County Girl’s Fastpitch league at Halaptiokee Park in Stuart Saturday, Feb. 15.
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Turnpike toll troubles By Patrick McCallister For Your Voice News & Views Beverly Knapp wasn’t having a good week, and the Florida Turnpike made it worse. Her 13-yearold son had been hospitalized for a few days. On Saturday, April 28, last year, he was going home after a few days of in-patient care. “I wasn’t even attempting to get on the turnpike, but was going to the hospital,” Knapp said. “I took
the wrong turn. Where I ended up at was the turnpike, so I got on the turnpike.” And paid too much for a short trip. “I got on in Palm City, and got off in Fort Pierce,” she said. “I didn’t have a (SunPass) and I didn’t get (an entry ticket). When I got to Fort Pierce, I told them where I got on, and they told me $9 or so. I paid at the booth. That’s what she told me I had to pay for not having the ticket.” Knapp paid the too-high charge, because either the tollbooth attendant told her, or she assumed, that the Florida Highway Patrol would respond if she didn’t. Knapp can’t remember if the attendant said or implied that law
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enforcement would get involved if she didn’t pay. Knapp said the exchange is largely a memory blur, because of her son’s medical concerns. Knapp is not alone in paying higher tolls than she should have. About a dozen folks recently responded to a Facebook query saying they, too, have paid a maximum charge when they didn’t get, or lost, their entry tickets onto the Florida Turnpike. “It happened to us and we paid it,” Karen Rinelli said in a response to the Facebook post. “Crazy. We got on at (the Becker Road interchange) and got off the following exit. Crazy!”
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