Not in my backyard
Compost facilty considered near PGA
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Jackie Robinson to be honored
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Bring out your dead
Centennial students in ‘Zombie Prom’
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FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 2015
Mets see boost in Spring Training attendance Brandon Zeris STAFF WRITER
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ST. LUCIE WEST — Rough northern winter weather and several other factors may have created the perfect season for N.Y. Mets spring training ticket sales to skyrocket. An average of 6,089 fans per game (a total of 91,329 over 15 games) attended Tradition Field to see the Mets this year, which is the highest average since 2008 when it was 6,121, according to Grapefruit League statistics. The Mets had a particularly strong schedule with big matchups people from Port St. Lucie are drawn toward, said Paul Taglieri, St. Lucie Mets executive facilities director. “There were a few different things that contributed to that, but the weather was bad in the northeast, and there was a lot of excitement in the team this year.” Schedules are made by Major League Baseball front-office people, but the Mets got lucky — from
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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer New York Mets third baseman David Wright signs autographs along the front row just before the last spring training game against the St. Louis Cardinals at Tradition Field in St. Lucie West Wednesday, April 1. The St. Lucie Mets open their season at the same location with two home games against Bradenton on April 9 and 10.
St. Lucie County may put up $1 million for All Aboard Florida Fight STAFF WRITER
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY — St. Lucie County has stood out as the Treasure Coast county government that hasn’t dedicated a particular dollar amount in fighting All Aboard Florida – the $2 billion
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passenger rail service set to make 32 daily passes through the Treasure Coast starting in 2016. That may change soon. To conclude the commission’s meeting Tuesday, the commission agreed to consider an agenda item at its next meeting April 14. Commissioner Chris Dzadovsky proposed the idea, saying the commissioners should consider
putting up $1 million for the fight. That contrasts Dzadovsky’s statements in March saying the county had all the money it needed to fight All Aboard Florida in its general fund, which includes the legal department’s yearly budget. The legal department has $200,000 budgeted, based on past years’ expenditures, Dzadovsky said. There are also budget concerns
over the county operating at a $4.7 million deficit, that initially made commissioners shy away from dedicating more of the county’s limited resources for the looming legal fight, Dzadovsky said. Whatever the commission potentially approves April 14 would come out of the county’s emergen-
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