With $3.5 million in federal and state money, the Science Center to rise again

With its shattered windows, peeling paint and gaping holes in the interior drywall, the St. Petersburg Science Center is a dilapidated shell of the shining beacon of knowledge that was dedicated in 1966 and expanded seven years later. The city-owned building at 7701 22nd Ave. N has been vacant for three years; plans were underway to bulldoze and used the land for an expansion of a nearby wastewater treatment plant.

Thanks to $3 million in federal appropriations, added to $500,000 in previously-approved state funds, the Science Center's bunsen burners will soon be lit once more.

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Waveney Ann Moore: Nation’s fallout from the pandemic, lower life expectancy

Someone I know refers to 2020 as the lost year. It was, indeed, a year we never could have imagined - months of precious in-person time lost with family and friends, celebrations missed and deaths mourned from afar.

It’s easy to tally the personal losses of 2020, but a CDC report highlights one that touches the entire population. Life expectancy in the United States, it says, dropped by a year and a half in 2020, primarily caused by the pandemic that jolted us out of complacency and routine.

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