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PALM CITY/TESORO
YourVoiceWeekly.com VOL. 2/ISSUE 20
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2014
Tot with a bot Palm City turns out big to town hall meeting Patrick McCallister Staff writer
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PALM CITY — The town had a lot to say. About 150 showed up to the Palm City Chamber of Commerce’s premier town hall meeting on Wednesday, March 12. On many folks’ minds was the proposed Palm City Costco. “Why don’t you tell them ‘No’ and save a lot of trouble,” an audience member shouted to panelist John Haddox, Martin
County Commissioner. Many applauded. Haddox said that’s his intention. “Costco doesn’t belong there,” he said. The audience applauded again. Fort Lauderdale’s Thomas Engineering Group representing Costco met with county staff on March 6 for a pre-application meeting about developing
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Mapp Road to be resurfaced Staff writer
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PALM CITY — Long awaited resurfacing on Mapp Road gets under way this summer. But only on one end. The resurfacing will start on the 2.8 miles of Mapp Road from Martin Highway southward to its end. PRSRT STD US POSTAGE PAID FORT PIERCE, FL PERMIT NO. 248 ECRWSS
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“It’s one massive crack seal,” Martin County Commissioner John Haddox, Palm City, said. “There’s some real bad depressions there in a few spots.” The crack seal gives the road an uneven, disorganized spider-web look. Numerous residents along that stretch of Mapp
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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer Amaris Money, 4, of Palm City watches as robot solves the Rubik’s Cube using a preprogrammed function to analyze the colors of each square and make the proper twists and turns to capture all the colors to be the same on each of its six sides. The robotic demonstration was hosted at the Cummings Library in Palm City and will revisit the popular topic regularly.
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