By: Summer Livengood On May 18th, there was an incident with a man who was pulled over (name not released). The man was pulled over for a few violations pulling into the gas station he pulls into the pump. A cop follows behind him to arrest him. When he came over to arrest him the man refused to arrest him. From police guidelines, police are … Continue reading Floridas crime issues and other
By: Summer Livengood It’s almost summer, and in the summer Florida gets hot. Temperatures are rising, already growing to an average 90 degrees and some days hotter. In the past couple years the temperature has been rising. These days global warming is an issue. What is global warming you may ask, it happens from greenhouse gasses. Our greenhouse gasses have affected our ecosystem and have … Continue reading Its getting hot in Florida
By: Summer Livengood In Florida, one of our favorite wildlife creatures ismanatees, or as some call sea cows. In Florida, these manatees are protected but not enough. Sadly these creatures are slowly becoming extinct due to the human population. There are less than 4,000 manatees this year when in the past 5 years there were over 8,000. In the past week over 600 manatees have … Continue reading Save the manatee’s
By: Summer Livengood Earth is over 4 billion years old. Earth has always been a good place to live. If we want Earth to be here for another 4 billion years, we are going to have to change the way we live. Our earth is more than 15% trash, killing our wildlife and hurting ecosystems. Does global warming mean that the earth is melting? Global … Continue reading Earth’s future
By:Summer Livengood The recent bill signed by President Joe Biden is to get rid of synthetic nicotine. If you don’t know what synthetic nicotine is, it is vapes and e-cigarettes. It also doesn’t contain any tobacco, which makes it synthetic. They are chemically produced and made. In the past couple of years, nicotine products have become more and more popular. Also, due to the popularity … Continue reading BAnning of synthetic nicotine
By:Summer Livengood Florida is a very touristy area. Key West gets over 550 tourists a week. You would never guess how many we get during summer break. Over 3 million people just during the summer. `Now for the small Florida keys, that’s a lot of people. It also hurts our oceans and other communities. Bars stay open longer, beaches get more pollution. The summer comes … Continue reading Florida’s Upcoming Summer
By:Summer Livengood Gun violence has affected over 1 million people in just the United States. Whenever you read or watch the news most of the time you will always see a shooting or killing by deadly weapon such as a gun. Today in this age there have been serious injuries from guns also having major deaths. Guns are associated with drive-by shootings, school shootings and … Continue reading Gun violence
On March 24, 2022, 14-year-old Tyre Sampson fell to his death at ICON Park Orlando, Florida. The park’ fame in upper Florida comes from their ride called the FreeFall, a 430-foot tall ride that takes up to 30 people and drops them down the 430 feet swiftly. On the way up, the roller coaster slowly turns the passengers before waiting a couple of moments until … Continue reading 14 year old dies on roller coaster
By: Summer Livengood Let’s go back to spring break of 2021 when most of the covid restrictions were removed. College and high school students out all day and all night partying and drinking. Getting noise complaints all over town. Having beaches and streets trashed. Due to all these inconveniences, Florida has put rules on our spring break. Like no alcohol on the beaches, adding curfews … Continue reading Spring break 2022
By:Summer Livengood Alioht Valdes was a Key West cop who worked at the Key West High School (KWHS) during most of his service. He graduated from KWHS, later married his high school sweetheart, and had two beautiful daughters, both being under the age of 4. Alioht joined the Key West Police Department (KWPD) in his young 20s and sadly left this world on 2/22/22 at … Continue reading Alioht Key West Cop
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