Tampa leaders advance $70M plan to transform MOSI campus

The Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners unanimously voted June 17 to move forward with negotiations on a proposed $70 million contract to build an indoor tournament field house on the Museum of Science & Industry campus in northeast Tampa.

MOSI is adjacent to the University of South Florida.

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St. Pete’s first Black firefighters honored at community event

In the early 1970s, St. Petersburg Fire Rescue hired its first Black firefighters. The men were Alphonso Brown, Sr., Willie Barnes, Riley “Preston” Floyd, Eugene Curry, Stanton Singletary and Eddie Utley.

Known as the Legacy Six, the trailblazing professionals were honored at a ceremony Monday at the Mahaffey Theater.

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