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Lions Club in running for $25K grant
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SEBASTIAN - A $25,000 grant is so close, Sebastian Lions Club members can almost taste it. Ten finalists are competing for votes for a Markham Mark of Distinction grant and the Sebastian Lions Club is in the middle of campaigning for votes. If the club is one of the top two vote-getters, they plan to use the funds to help the city ...
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Commission promises jobs grant worth $363,000 to unknown company
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INDIAN RIVER COUNTY - An unnamed software company considering locating in Indian River County just received an incentive from county officials. The Indian River County Board of County Commissioners unanimously voted to give a jobs grant of $363,000 to Eureka ...
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Nearly ready for the kettles
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Cliff Partlow/staff photographer
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County approves jobs grant to area aquaculture company
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INDIAN RIVER COUNTY - One of two new job grants the Indian River County Board of County Commissioners approved last week will go to a local company looking to expand its business. AlgaGen is a premier supplier of top-quality, high-density, live plankton feeds for the aquaculture industry, said Bill Cox...
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Treat truck tour stops in Vero Beach
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VERO BEACH - The tongues and lips of children and parents at the Vero Beach Book Center were sticky and purple on Aug. 16. Sammie Schulman of Sebastian slurped her free purple ice pop and enthusiastically described some of her favorite books to read, "The Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series. "I like all of th...
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Time for class
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Cliff Partlow/staff photographer
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Grant enables sewer lines for downtown Fellsmere
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FELLSMERE - Small business owners and entrepreneurs in Fellsmere just got a little boost from the USDA. The city received a $200,000 rural development grant from the USDA on Aug. 19 amid applause from local business owners, chambers of commerce representatives and local government officials. The grant ...
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Sending sweets to the troops
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Cliff Partlow/staff photographer
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Grassroots effort to force electric utility sale falls short
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VERO BEACH - Operation Clean Sweep may not have collected enough signatures to be put on the November ballot, but don't throw them in the dust bin just yet. Operation Clean Sweep, the grassroots movement in Vero Beach that has championed the idea of selling the Vero Beach electric utility, ...
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'Doggy dining,' shark fishing ordinances pass
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VERO BEACH - The ball is in the court of restaurant owners on whether to allow dogs in the dining area, after the Vero Beach City Council voted 5-0 to pass an ordinance allowing it under certain circumstances. Presented as a tool to draw in more clientele during a ...
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