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News wrap: Top stories in Belle Glade

2021-09-11

(BELLE GLADE, FL) Check out this roundup of hyper-local news in Belle Glade.

Pulled from contributors around the region, here’s a glimpse of what’s going on nearby. For more stories from the Belle Glade area, click here.

LOCAL HEADLINE

Florida / cbsnews.com

Florida woman's final days before dying of COVID were spent urging her TikTok followers to get vaccinated: "It was a mistake"

Struggling to breathe and visibly exhausted lying in a hospital bed, Megan Alexandra Blankenbiller pleaded with her followers in her final TikTok video last month to get vaccinated. She had not -- and nine days after posting the final video, she died. "I don't have a lot of energy for... Read more

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It is a shame that she died and it is more shameful that other people will die due to the ignorance of not wearing a mask and not getting vaccinated!

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Can we stop with these ridiculous stories. What about those that does and we’re vaccinated or the ones that died from the vaccine. Crickets!!

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LOCAL PICK

Florida / floridapolitics.com

Ron DeSantis bashed for making Florida ‘only state’ not using federal child food aid program

Florida’s neediest families are missing out on about $820 million in child food assistance. Florida Democrats are piling on Gov. Ron DeSantis with demands he reverse his “appalling” decision not to reenlist the state in a pandemic-era program to bring federal food aid to 2.1 million children from low-income homes. Read more

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Just goes to show how the media spins the story way out of proportion and people believe and run with it. DeSantis is and has done an amazing job as governor and is not corrupt like most in the federal government. People are too quick to jump on the story and comment about something they know nothing about

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OMG our governor is a disaster. All he cares about is his political Future It's a shame it is obvious he does not care about our children it's obvious he doesn't care about our water being That biscayne bay and Tampa Bay are so polluted. He needs to stop wasting Is his valuable resources by dragging mask's mandate through court Is taking money from our educators These are the same people you were calling heroes hes so too faced

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LOCAL FAVORITE

reuters.com

Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask mandates in state's schools

Sept 10 (Reuters) - A Florida appeals court ruled in favor of Governor Ron DeSantis on Friday, effectively reinstating his ban on mask mandates in the state's public schools. The decision by the First District Court of Appeals reverses a previous ruling by a Florida district court judge who found in a lawsuit brought by parents that the state did not have authority to ban the face-covering mandates. Read more

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Fight to the bitter end! Let people choose to wear or not to wear a mask...vaccinate or not to vaccinate...I guarantee this...for most of us, the sun will shine another day tomorrow! We are so BLESSED!

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If I am vaccinated & wear a mask to protect my health but am forced to be around people that won't what happened to my choice? I can still get sick from them or bring it home to my family. If there is no mask mandate then there is NO choice

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Florida / sun-sentinel.com

Florida’s well-fed governor heartlessly lets kids go hungry | Editorial

Ron DeSantis loves food. Who doesn’t? As Florida’s governor travels constantly around the state, he pays feel-good visits to Mom-and-Pop restaurants to salute their contributions to the economy and sample their mouth-watering treats. On Thursday, it was Dominic’s Deli & Eatery in Palm Coast, according to the governor’s Twitter feed. The day before, he tried the scratch-built bagels at ... Read more

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Something is not accurate with this article. My 3rd grader and 6th grader have not paid for lunch last year or this year, everything is free.

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Cannot impeach him. Against Florida law. VOTE HIM OUT 2022. This from the anti abortion group. Shows again they are pro birthers NOT pro life.

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