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Lifeguard seeks grant to promote water safety
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY - As a lifeguard at St. Lucie County pools, Lindsey Bordner became concerned about funding cutbacks and how that would affect water safety. To help with the situation, Ms. Bordner applied for a $25,000 grant from the Pepsi Refresh Project to provide free swimming lessons for area children ...
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Program that helps youth stay active, out of trouble may fall to budget cuts
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FORT PIERCE - As a patrol officer in the 1990s, Paul Pearson would often see kids getting into trouble. "There wasn't a lot of things for the kids to do," he said. "A lot of them didn't even know why they were being arrested." To help steer them in another direction, Officer Pearson started the Fort Pierce ...
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Testing the waves
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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer
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City fires administrative services director
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By Jay Meisel meisel@hometownnewsol.com FORT PIERCE - The city of Fort Pierce fired its director of administrative services, who is under investigation for offering a bribe to a city commissioner, city officials said last week. However, Mazella D. Smith, the employee, has not been charged with any crime. Through her attorney, Cathleen Scott, she ...
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Businesswoman seeking council seat
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PORT ST. LUCIE - A former resident of the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area, Jillian Bauer-Elkins said she was attracted by Port St. Lucie's beauty, safety and peacefulness. Since moving to the city 17 years ago, she was also impressed by the friendliness of her neighbors, she said. "We all watch out for one anoth...
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Port St. Lucie teen to participate in national pageant
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PORT ST. LUCIE - For almost half her life, Heather Cline, who is now 12, suffered through cancer treatments involving radiation and chemotherapy. Now after being in remission for six years, she tells others about her experiences and volunteers to help children who are going through what she went through. He...
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Ready to explore the rabbit hole
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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer
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Hospice consolidates in county; builds three-story addition
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY - Construction began last week on a three-story counseling center for Treasure Coast Hospice in St. Lucie County. The 30,000-square-foot building, when opened, will not only help provide counseling services, it will allow services and offices to be consolidated in St. Lucie County from thre...
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Businessman seeks commission seat
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY - Ken Waters doesn't give up easily. Having been unsuccessful three times, he is trying for a fourth time this year to be elected to the St. Lucie County Commission. The owner of Waters Electric in Fort Pierce, Mr. Waters, a Port St. Lucie resident, said he would bring his business experi...
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Scientists prepare for oil contamination
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FORT PIERCE - Scientists at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute are doing research that is aimed at helping agencies tasked with reducing damage from the oil spill in the Gulf. Sara Edge, an associate research professor in the department of ecosystem health, said scientists are putting together a research...
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County, city approve pain clinic moratoriums
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY - Spurred by concerns about increasing prescription drug abuse, officials from St. Lucie County and the city of Port St. Lucie adopted moratoriums on pain clinics last week. St. Lucie County's moratorium for the unincorporated areas is for nine months, while Port St. Lucie's will last a yea...
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Police continue to investigate murder
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FORT PIERCE - Fort Pierce police detectives continued their investigation of a murder, but had not made any arrests as of press time. The body of Sean Matthew Londo, 29, of 1221 Texas Court, Fort Pierce, was found June 11 at a residence at 430 Dundas Court, police said. His body was discovered fully clothed and laying face up on th...
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