Month: June 2020

The Brevard County Commission reflects a proposal to make face masks a requirement at local businesses.

A special Brevard County Commission meeting on mandatory face masks inside businesses was rejected.

Palm Bay police responded to a shooting on Washington Street around 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Instead, county commissioners OK nonbinding proclamation to “strongly encourage” businesses to post their face mask policies at their businesses.

While Major League Baseball players are getting ready to start their season, their minor league counterparts are done.

The driver, an unidentified 46-year-old man from Orange Park, was pronounced dead at the scene.
       

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Tuesday with a next-gen, Air Force-owned GPS satellite.

The rocket is carrying a GPS satellite for U.S. and allied military operations.

Out of 156 bills Gov. Ron DeSantis had signed into law as of Tuesday afternoon, 112, including the state’s new $92.2 billion budget, will take effect Wednesday, the start of the state’s fiscal year.

This week brings specials at restaurants across the Space Coast, an art opening in Titusville and water fun in Cocoa Beach

No matter how skillfully Gov. Ron DeSantis may have wielded this scalpel, the more democratic approach to pandemic-imposed cuts would have been to convene the full Legislature.

Public turns out for meeting on mandatory face masks

The district has made no decisions about masks for the coming school year, which begins in August.

Under Gov. DeSantis’s executive order, bars and restaurants were able to open at 50% capacity indoors, and at full capacity outside with social distancing of 6 feet between tables starting June 5, 2020.