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Salvation on a plate Giving the gift of food
Packing up the fairgrounds
Fairgrounds looking into new venues
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Thunder comes up over Aussie men in review at Lyric
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YourVoiceWeekly.com VOL. 3/ISSUE 36
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2015
CRA There are giants in the sky workshop becomes rowdy rally Patrick McCallister STAFF WRITER
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MARTIN COUNTY — Commissioner Anne Scott, Hobe Sound, summed it up. “I came here tonight thinking we were going to have a workshop and it turned out to be a rally,” she said. The commission acting in the role of the Community Redevelopment Agency had its first workshop with the county’s seven neighborhood advisory committees on Monday, July 6. About 175 to 200 jammed into
See WORKSHOP page 12
Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer Madison Bailey, of Palm City, performs as the witch with Jessica Curley as Rapunzel during the StarStruck Academy Theatre production of ‘Into the Woods Jr.’ over the Independence Day weekend. See page 6 for additional images from the performance.
Investment property bought for a steal at auction Staff Reports
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TESORO – A one-third acre home site in the Tesoro residential community that sold for $439,900 in 2004 was sold on
June 25 for $33,000 in an absolute auction. The buyers were a married couple who live in Fort Pierce who asked not to be identified. They said, however, they bought the property at 110 S.E. Rio Siena as an investment and have no
immediate plans to build on the site. They have 30 days from the auction date to close the deal. Real estate prices of both luxury homes and vacant lots with lake and golf course views in the 900-lot community on 1,400 acres along Becker Road east
of Florida’s Turnpike tumbled during the recession, and have been slowly recovering. Community amenities include 10 tennis courts, a resort-style swimming pool and two 18-
See AUCTION page 10
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