Bright lights, big city
Martin County Fair is back in town
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Suicide prevention
Mother speaks out to help others
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Bringin’ down the house
Television celebrity visits the Lyric
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PALM CITY/TESORO
YourVoiceWeekly.com VOL. 4/ISSUE 14
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2016
Wildlife Center It’s worth a shot 20-acre expansion just filed Patrick McCallister STAFF WRITER
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PALM CITY — The Treasure Coast Wildlife Center is heading toward long-anticipated expansion. The not-for-profit wildlife rehabilitation and public education organization had a development pre-application meeting with Martin County’s Growth Management the last week of January. The center moved from Hobe Sound to Palm City, 8626 S.W.
Citrus Blvd., in 2004. “It was thrown together with a lick and a prayer,” Dan Martinelli, executive director, said. The plan from the start was for the current facilities to be temporary. The organization has a master plan for developing it’s about 20 acres, but time between making the plan and having money to build it has been longer than expected, and some updates are needed. Many have pre-application meetings with Growth Management to make sure they
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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer Katherine Gunsolus takes aim while competing in the 6th Annual 3D Archery Tournament Sunday, Jan. 31 at Ranch & Feed Pet Supply in Palm City.
Martin’s All Aboard Florida opposition fund running low Patrick McCallister STAFF WRITER
pmccallister@YourVoiceWeekly.com
MARTIN COUNTY — Last year the County Commission laid down a huge bet that it could derail All Aboard Florida. At the Feb. 17 regular meeting in 2015, Commissioner John Haddox jumped right to it. “I move that the Board of County Commissioners allocate reserve funds in the amount of $1.4 million to be used in whatever action is necessary to oppose All Aboard
Florida, including legal action,” he said at the meeting last year. The odd number, $1.4 million, was 1 percent of that fiscal year’s ad valorem tax collection — the logic being that All Aboard Florida, a proposed privately owned highspeed passenger rail, would harm the county’s property values. Anne Scott, Hobe Sound, quickly seconded the motion, and the commission approved it unanimously with hardly any discussion. On the same day, Indian
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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer Ty Baker of Palm City takes aim during the 6th Annual 3D Archery Tournament Sunday, Jan. 31 at Ranch & Feed Pet Supply in Palm City.
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