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YourVoiceWeekly.com VOL. 3/ISSUE 32
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
NAC works to keep Mapp work going
FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 2015
New skills, thrills
Patrick McCallister STAFF WRITER
pmccallister@YourVoiceWeekly.com
PALM CITY — Efforts to keep the Mapp Road Town Center Design on the map continued. On Monday, June 8, the Old Palm City Neighborhood Advisory Committee, NAC, met to continue planning efforts to keep Mapp Road on the county’s roadwork radar. “This project has to be sold to our neighbors, to the commission,” NAC member Jane Landrum said at the meeting. “They need to see what it can do.” Members of the committee have informally met with county commissioners, business owners and residents as they ready for an upcoming Community Redevelopment Area workshop. Mark Palazzo said he met with commissioners Anne Scott and Ed Fielding. He said their earlier votes to remove proposed Mapp roadwork from the county’s capital improvement plan despite the NAC’s unanimous support for it was due, in part, to a perception that the advisory committee doesn’t speak for the neighborhood it represents. “It was a general feeling that the feedback coming from the NACs was not representative of the community,” Palazzo said. At its April 21 meeting, the County Commission narrowly nixed a proposed $1.4 million Community Redevelopment Area, CRA, project to resurface Mapp Road and improve swales, along with adding bike lanes and connecting
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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer Steve Siegfried, Treasure Coast Rowing Club boat house captain, lines up Laura Bartenfelder of Palm City, Marney McKee of Jensen Beach, Kathryn Kaidy of Stuart and Mike Cameron before releasing them on the river during the annual National Learn to Row Day on Saturday, June 6 in Palm City.
Domino theory Navy veteran taking second shot at Florida’s 18th Congressional District urges other veterans to run for elected offices Patrick McCallister STAFF WRITER
pmccallister@YourVoiceWeekly.com
Carl Domino is a Navy veteran, and he’s running for Congress. Again. He ran in 2014 for the 18th Congressional District, but lost to incumbent Patrick Murphy, who is not a veter-
an. Murphy is vacating the seat to make a run to become Florida’s junior senator, as Marco Rubio — who’s now in that seat — makes a run for the White House. Of the three, only Domino is a veteran. Domino hopes to see more veterans announcing political runs for 2016.
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