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Fort Pierce library reopens its doors
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FORT PIERCE - The renovation took a year to complete, but residents using the Zora Neale Hurston Branch Library have been waiting for the day the remodeled library opened its doors a lot longer than that. But under a clear sky, the doors did open, to a new 5,000-square-foot expansion of the older space. Off...
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Bus crash kills one, injures 15
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY - A collision between a St. Lucie County school bus and a semitrailer carrying sod took place Monday afternoon at the corner of Okeechobee Road and Midway Road in western St. Lucie County. One student on the bus was killed, and 14 other students were injured. The bus driver was also injur...
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Council chooses new city manager
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PORT ST. LUCIE - At the Port St. Lucie City Council afternoon meeting on March 19, acting manager Gregory Oravec was unanimously voted to stay in the position of city manager, which he had been filling as interim since March 9. That's when the council voted 4-1 in a special meeting to terminate the contract...
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Race-stopping attire
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Northport K-8 School Principal Glenn Rustay finished the Torrey Pines Race for Research half marathon Saturday, March 24 in Tradition dressed in a tutu as a reward to his students for reading 7,000 books in a two month period. Nearly 900 participants ran in the 5K, half marathon or the wheelchair half marathon, b...
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Model court program adopted in SLC
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY - Until recently, when families attended court for cases of abused, abandoned or neglected children, it was done in a traditional setting. Circuit Judge Larry Schack, while wearing a traditional robe, would sit behind the bench and the parties would be relatively far removed in the seatin...
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Sheriff operates jail in efficient manner, report shows
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY - St. Lucie County Sheriff Ken Mascara expects he will continue operating the county's jail in the wake of a report saying management alternatives would not save the county money, he said last week. Sheriff Mascara said he will make a final decision after dealing with a couple of related ...
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New space for youngest patients
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY - Surrounded with gentle colors and soft sounds, the children residing as patients at Lawnwood Regional Medical Center and Heart Institute are enjoying the latest remodeling the hospital has done for its youngest patients. The hospital recently added a pediatric intensive care unit to the h...
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Swinging at The Taste
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Jessica Barnett and Philip Worley, both of St. Lucie County, put on a show of swing dance during the annual Taste of St. Lucie in downtown Fort Pierce Wednesday, March 21....
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Local visionary dies, is remembered fondly
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Paul Joseph Hegener, whom everyone called "Pete," lost his battle with cancer on March 23, 2012. He was 71. The former president of Core Communities, which saw the beginnings of Tradition and St. Lucie West, was not present at the recent ribbon cuttings of the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute or Tradition...
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Student is 'mayor for the day'
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FORT PIERCE - When Leo Hojnowski woke up the morning of March 16, he got dressed in his suit and red tie, combed his hair and went to the monthly Fort Pierce Coffee with the Mayor. It was important he was there, because he was the "mayor." His parents attended a fundraiser where one of the items for bid was...
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She leaps, she scores
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Brunica Lexine leaps to score a touchdown during a flag football game for Fort Pierce Central High School against the Port St. Lucie Jaguars Wednesday, March 21 in Fort Pierce. The Cobras came away with a 37-6 victory....
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Doctor, wife arrested on drug charges
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PORT ST. LUCIE - A Port St. Lucie doctor told authorities he wrote bogus prescriptions for his wife so she wouldn't go out on the street to get drugs, a warrant application said. Gregory A. Hayes, the physician, told investigators that "there are no medical records for prescriptions he wrote for (his wife...
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