Palmcity 4 17 2015

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Alleviating pain

‘Old-style’ doc uses modern methods

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Camp Good Grief

Hospice program helps kids

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Classic at the Barn

‘The Man Who Came to Dinner’ on tap

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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer Morgan Bloume pitched in relief for the South Fork High School Bulldogs during an away game at St. Lucie West Centennial High School Tuesday, April 7. The Bulldogs routed the Eagles 17-4.

MARTIN COUNTY — The County Commission voted to send lawyers, guns and money. Well, money and McDermott Will & Emery, a Washington, D.C., law firm. At its last regular meeting Tuesday, April 14, the commission gave County Attorney Michael Durham permission to pull up to $250,000 from a $1.4 million fund it created in February to oppose All Aboard Florida to hire the law firm and start legal actions. The town of Jupiter Island and Citizens Against Rail Expansion in Florida, an All Aboard Florida opposition group, have been working with attorney Stephen Ryan at the firm for several months. “I am wholly in favor of this, while being ever increasingly dismayed that we must go through this,” Commissioner Anne Scott, Hobe Sound, said at the meeting. Commissioner John Haddox, Palm City, moved to transfer the funds, hire the law firm, and start legal actions. Scott seconded. The motion passed unanimously with little discussion. The commission will discuss legal strategies in executive sessions that are closed to the public. Durham told the commission that Ryan has drafted two proposed lawsuits. Last month the Indian River County Commission voted to sue the U.S. Department of Transportation for authorizing All Aboard Florida to issue up to $1.75 billion in bonds before an environmental impact study was completed. Durham said the proposed suits for Martin County are different. McDermott Will & Emery is charging the county


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