Pokemon Go craze
Who is playing in Palm City?
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Poison bloom
Federal Funds denied in algae fight
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Tiny dancer
‘Belieber’ gets a huge chance
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YourVoiceWeekly.com VOL. 4/ISSUE 38
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
In the Navy
‘No’ to emergency fund declaration Patrick McCallister STAFF WRITER
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Rally For The River slated for Saturday Editor’s note: Due to the fast-moving nature of the bluegreen algae bloom and related events, some information at press time could change by publication.
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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer U.S. Navy veterans Tom Carr and Moe Tschudi, both of Palm City, ceremoniously shave the head of family member Kane Tschudi before joining the U.S. Navy this fall.
FRIDAY, JULY 22, 2016
TREASURE COAST — The Rally For The River & Treasure Coast Waterway Cleanup will be on Saturday, July 23, starting at 8:30 a.m. The Florida Oceanographic Society is hosting the rally and cleanup. It’ll be on the eastern side of the Stuart Causeway, Ocean Boulevard. It’ll start at
8:30 a.m. One things certain—there’ll be a lot of fired up folks there ready to tell the state and federal governments to get it together. Commissioners from Martin and St. Lucie counties headed to Washington D.C. last week for the Lagoon-Gulf Action Day put together by representatives Patrick Murphy and Curt Clawson. The commissioners liked what they were hearing from federal officials. Then Gov. Rick Scott got a “No” from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. On Friday, July 15, FEMA administrator, W. Craig Fugate, sent Scott a letter telling him — therefore the Treasure Coast — there’ll be no federal declaration of emergency over the bluegreen algae filling parts of the St. Lucie and Indian rivers. The
See RALLY page 7
Commission barely approves AgTEC in Palm City Patrick McCallister STAFF WRITER
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PALM CITY — After a day of quasi-judicial hearing, the County Commission at its July 12 meeting gave Turner Groves Limited Partnership a tense, narrow nod to start transforming the former Sunshine Grove on Martin Highway into a 1,700-acre development with green space. Commissioner Anne Scott was the swing vote approving a modest, speculative development of
about 32,000-squre feet of office space. Not much, but enough to get the planned unit development started before a legal clock ran out. Scott gave Turner Groves a reluctant nod after scolding the company representatives over a Comprehensive Growth Management Plan amendment passed before she was on the commission in 2009. Scott said the company, which proposed the amendment creating the Agriculture Targeted Employment Center, AgTEC, landuse and zoning designation with suggested language, deviously
aligned the legal stars to its favor. In essence they had the upper hand position whether the plan was passed or not. “I’m going to vote for this because I have to for the good of
Martin County — or you’re going to sue us,” she said. Commissioners John Haddox and Doug Smith joined Scott in approving the first seven acres of the proposed commercial, retail and professional development just west of Interstate 95. Haddox was enthusiastic to give his yes. “I see way more benefits than detriments,” he said at the meeting. The proposed project first went before the Martin Commission Commissioner Anne Scott
See AGTEC page 8
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