Pryor takes a shot
Lawman vies for office of Sheriff
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Fair takes a political spin
What the commission is discussing
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A Barn family comedy The ‘other’ Simon play
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YourVoiceWeekly.com VOL. 4/ISSUE 28
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
FRIDAY, MAY 13, 2016
Ballerinas to take stage The SHIP’s come in
Florida Arts & Dance Company will be performing their dance recital at 1 p.m. on May 14 at their Stuart location, 938 S.E. Central Parkway. Dancers posed to perfection in the front row from left to right are Mollie Saum of Palm City, Vivian Powell, Megan Kalil, Jacqueline Rouse, Anna Gandy and Caroline Rouse all of Palm City. In the back row the dancers are Elizabeth Lamb, left, Ella Saum of Palm City, Drew Walls, Lily Cave and Gina Saxton.
Low-income residents in Palm City may qualify for state-sponsored funding that can help offset home repair and down-payment costs Adam Laten Willson
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PALM CITY — More than a million dollars in state funding is currently available for low-income homeowners in Martin County. While the state sponsored SHIP program (State Housing Initiative Partnership) has allocated rehabilitation and down payment assistance funds to counties all over Florida for more than 30 years, there is no better time than now to take advantage, with purse strings severely tightened by the recession, and many residents in Palm City and Golden Gate dreading the burdensome cost of septic to sewer. “I do feel SHIP’s utilized, but there are still a lot of people in Martin County who are unaware of it,” says Dawn Cobb, Martin County housing program coordinator. “It’s always been around, and we help people all the time. I know there’s need out there. A lot of people are still struggling because of the recession, and because of aging and fixed incomes. There are still people out there who don’t know
See SHIP page 22
Photo by Florida Arts & Dance Company
All Aboard Florida provides final engineering plans Patrick McCallister STAFF WRITER
pmccallister@YourVoiceWeekly.com
TREASURE COAST — All Aboard Florida is calling it a
“significant step,” but opponents question how far down the tracks it gets the proposed high-speed passenger train. “Today we have achieved another significant step towards the completion of our project,” the
company said in a press release. “Consistent with our initial commitment to the Treasure Coast, we provided final engineering
See AAF page 14
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