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Students and their teacher Zoey Bridges created these three samples of coiled pottery at the recently opened Treasure Coast Pottery. TREASURE COAST POTTERY PHOTOS

Firing a new artistic future

This new artistic space on Heritage Drive is filled with the fun, the excitement and the amazement that comes with learning to create something that never existed before and knowing you made it.

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This rendering portrays the coming state-of-the-art Indiantown Charter High School which offers students a traditional high school education with a focus on career training and college-level learning. HARVARD JOLLY ARCHITECTURE PHOTOS

Charting the future

As you drive west along Southwest Citrus Boulevard approaching Timer Powers Park in Indiantown, a massive structure rises in the middle of vast agricultural fields. The building — Indiantown Charter High School — will be the new home of the town’s first high school. It is a symbol of hope, promising educational opportunities and a brighter economic future for local residents.

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Blessed Martin de Porres Catholic School for Colored Children opened on North Eighth Street in Fort Pierce in 1940. A photo was taken each year as a record of students and teachers. This photo from the late 1940s shows the students and teachers for grades 1-5 standing in front of the main school building, and the students and teacher of grades 6-8 standing in front of the war-surplus building that served as their classroom. ST. ANASTASIA CATHOLIC PARISH

Blessed lessons

A bright light was shining on a group of black school children along North Eighth Street in Fort Pierce in the days before school integration in the South. That light emanated from Blessed Martin de Porres Catholic School for Colored Children, a light of learning that led the way to professional and lucrative careers for many of the school’s graduates.

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