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June 23, 2020 By: Staff Report ST. PETERSBURG – Mayor Rick Kriseman has signed an executive order, mandating the requirement for masks in St Petersburg. According to the executive order, residents must wear face coverings when in any room, space, common area or other locations…
Read More St. Pete Mayor Kriseman Signs an Executive Order Mandating Mask
June 22, 2020 By: Staff Report Land O’ Lakes – Kurt Browning, superintendent for Pasco County Schools, has tested positive for COVID-19, according to the school district. Superintendent Kurt Browning is self-isolating at his home after he experienced relatively minor symptoms since last Friday. Pasco…
Read More Kurt Browning Pasco School Superintendent Positive for COVID-19
June 22, 2020 By: Staff Report LAKELAND – Lakeland city commissioners voted no on a mask requirement for the City of Lakeland on Monday. This mandate would have been similar to the ordinance in place in Tampa and St. Pete. Danielle Dummond, the executive vice…
Read More Mask Mandate In Lakeland Not Passed
June 22, 2020 By: Staff Report GENOA – An Italian based infectious disease doctor, believes the COVID-19 virus has become less dangerous and could even dissipate on its own, without a vaccine. Dr. Matteo Bassetti is the head of the infectious diseases clinic based in Genoa, said ‘the virus…
Read More COVID-19 Cases Climb, But Is the Virus Weakening?
June 22, 2020 By Sarah McCormick TAMPA – The Food and Drug Administration is urging consumers to check their hand sanitizer supply to see if they have any products manufactured by Eskbiochem SA de CV, a company out of Mexico. Nine of their hand sanitizer…
Read More FDA Issues Hand Sanitizer Recall
June 22, 2020 By Sarah McCormick TAMPA – The Florida Department of Health has updated its daily COVID-19 case count with the following information being released for Hillsborough and Pasco Counties. HILLSBOROUGH Total Cases: 5, 973 Deaths: 115 Hospitalizations: 574 Residents, 8 Non-Residents PASCO Total…
Read More COVID-19 Update for Pasco and Hillsborough Counties
June 22. 2020 By: GRCC RIVERVIEW – On June 17th, Riverview Woman’s Club and Greater Riverview Chamber of Commerce (GRCC) members joined together to caravan through the Riverview area to celebrate the Dr. Earl Lennard scholarship winners and the Riverview Woman’s Club scholarship winners. Bob…
Read More Greater Riverview Chamber of Commerce and Riverview Woman’s Club, Caravan Around Town to Celebrate Our Scholarship Winners
June 22, 2020 By: Staff Report SEATTLE – The area is known as Capitol Hill Occupied Protested (CHOP, formally CHAZ) in Seattle Washington, has set up a black-out zone park, guarded by white people. Rapper and Author, Zuby tweeted out, “White leftists in CHAZ/CHOP, Seattle…
Read More CHOP in Seattle Has ‘Black Only’ Racially Segregated Zone
June 22, 2020 By: Staff Report TAMPA – The Hillsborough County Emergency Policy Group is set to vote on a mask mandate today at 1:30 p.m. If the vote passes, employees and customers would be required to wear a mask inside businesses. The ordinance would…
Read More Hillsborough County EPG to Vote on Mask Mandate Today
June 22, 2020 By: Tiffany Razzano TAMPA – Just over half of the families responding to a Hillsborough County Public Schools district survey feel “comfortable” about sending their children back to school in person in August for the 2020-2021 school year. Superintendent Addison Davis discussed…
Read More Survey Says 53% of Hillsborough Parents Want Students to Return to School