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Back on the ballot
School board members file
Plan your jazzin’
Jazz week coming in March
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Italian fare lives up to its rep Tutto Fresco’s fine dining in SLW
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YourVoiceWeekly.com VOL. 4/ISSUE 18
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2016
Last No bullying on my watch weekend to make the fair Patrick McCallister STAFF WRITER
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY — It’s the last weekend to hit the 51st annual St. Lucie County Fair, wrapping a 10-day run of fun. The fair will end on Sunday, March 6, but before it does there’ll be a hair band taking audiences back to the 1980s, and a demolition derby taking them back to childhood. C’mon, who didn’t slam their Matchbox cars together for fun? “This is the largest single event on the Treasure Coast,” Jeanne Keaton, fair manager, said. “It’s family-oriented and a fun, safe atmosphere.” The fair attracts about 130,000 a year to its 250-acre site at 15601 W. Midway Road, in Fort Pierce. This year the fair has a 15-acre midway with more than 40 rides provided by Murphy Bros. Expositions and James E. Strates Shows. Keaton didn’t want to “guess on God and the weather,” so said this year will probably be about the same. But— “We broke all records on (opening) night, with the Professional Rodeo Cowboy’s Association rodeo being the main entertainment,” Keaton said. “We broke records in the parking lot, we
See FAIR page A16
Joe ‘Joe the Biker’ Wojcik sends his message against bullying to community leaders and St. Lucie County School district administrators and board members during a presentation at Harbor Community Bank in St. Lucie West Thursday, Feb. 18. See story on page A3.
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Crosstown Parkway super-street recommendation draws scrutiny from PSL residents and council Bruno Moore
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PORT ST. LUCIE — The Crosstown Parkway Extension Project is slated to be the first bridge over the St. Lucie River to be built in decades. It’s the first roadway involving public input
for sculptures and landscaping and it might be the first roadway in the state of Florida to feature a bulked up intersection and traffic control system called a super-street. Unlike the traditional four-way intersection currently shuffling traffic at Floresta Drive and West Virginia Drive (which will become Crosstown), the su-
per-street intersection will make use of pedestrian walkways, dedicated U-turn areas and curbed medians, all in an effort to accept the increased traffic expected to use the overpass. For instance, northbound traffic on Floresta wanting to go west on Crosstown will need
See CROSSTOWN page A8
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