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In September 2021, Disney announced the movie remake of the iconic classic “The Little Mermaid.” The movie announcement was faced by controversy on social media as the star “Ariel” would be portrayed by @HalleBailey , an African American singer. In response to the controversy, a local Facebook Page was founded.
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📸: The Little Mermaid Giveaway Group teams up with Ella’s Hope. (Submitted photo)
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Tropical storms, hurricanes and other large coastal storms can affect seaside and inland communities and ecosystems with strong winds, high storm tide, erosion and flooding. These forces can destroy buildings, roads and bridges and reshape the nation’s coastline. Scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey are dedicated to studying coastal storms, so robust data are available to the people who need it.
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One of St. Croix’s two @Kmart stores is slated to close, according to a report by a retail consulting and asset acquisition firm.
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The V.I. Public Finance Authority Board of Directors’ approval to negotiate with First Bank Puerto Rico to borrow $100 million for the buyout of the contract between the Water and Power Authority and Vitol was a quick action item on its agenda Wednesday, and its most controversial.
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📸: Gov. Albert Bryan chaired the PFA Zoom meeting. (Photo from Livestream)
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Teddy Seymour was officially designated the first African American man to sail around the world solo when he completed his voyage on June 19, 1987, in Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.
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📸: Capt. Teddy Seymour (Photo by Maya Gates Seymour)
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Conflicting legislation on funding concerned legislators during Wednesday’s Committee on Health, Hospitals, & Human Services hearing when receiving testimony from the @USVIDOH and the V.I. Board of Nurses.
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📸: Sen. Ray Fonseca chairs Wednesday’s Committee on Health, Hospitals and Human Services. (Photo by Barry Leerdam)
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Artist Porschia Denning likes to think big. She’s recently completed a series of landscapes and other paintings – some as large as 4′ by 9′ – which can now be seen by appointment at the Mongoose Junction, St John USVI Office Suites.
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📸: Denning poses in front of one of her large-format nature paintings. (Submitted photo)
📸: Porschia Denning (left) discusses one of her figurative paintings now on display at Mongoose Junction. (Submitted photo)
📸: Francis Bay is featured in this triptych by Porschia Denning. (Submitted photo)
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With a grant from the U.S. Department of Interior Office of Insular Affairs, the Virgin Islands Architecture Center for Built Heritage and Crafts will take the first steps in fulfilling the organization’s mission – to rebuild the Old Barracks Property into an educational center to teach, train and certify Virgin Islands students in historic preservation and building trades.
https://stcroixsource.com/2023/06/06/viac-ready-to-begin-rebuilding-old-barracks-on-hospital-street/
📸: The building served as the only high school before Central High was built. (Susan Ellis photo)
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In a small mobile laboratory at an eco-hotel on the west end of St. Croix, the miracle of life is taking place. In a petri dish, under a UV light, a fluorescent speck wriggles around in a tablespoon of seawater. It is the larval form of a grooved brain coral, born just a few days ago, and already it has its sea legs.
(#LinkInBio): https://stcroixsource.com/2023/06/06/coral-nursery-launches-to-restore-brain-corals-in-butler-bay/
📸: Divers from the Butler Bay Coral Restoration Project collect spawn from grooved brain corals (Diplora labyrinthiformis or DLAB) to create fertilized embryos in a mobile “pop-up” laboratory at Feather Leaf Inn on the West End of St. Croix. The project aims to add as many as 300 new brain corals to the reef in Butler Bay after one year. (Photo courtesy of Thriving Islands, LLC)
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Taxicab Commission officials alerted for-hire drivers Tuesday that their St. Thomas office had reopened — 11 weeks after it abruptly closed because of a yet-unspecified workplace hazard.
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📸: The St. Thomas Taxicab Commission office reopened Monday, 11 weeks after closing. (Photo from the V.I. Taxi Association website)
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During Tuesday’s Committee on Budget, Appropriations, and Finance hearing, Jenifer C. O’Neal, director of the Office of Management and Budget, testified that the $100 million line of credit requested by the governor’s financial team has not been closed, thus resulting in $45 million being taken from the legislative General Fund to pay WAPA.
https://stthomassource.com/content/2023/06/06/45-million-of-unauthorized-funding-utilized-by-the-bryan-administration/
📸: Sen. Donna Frett-Gregory chairs the Committee on Budget, Appropriations, and Finance on Tuesday. (Photo By Barry Leerdam)
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A St. Croix man wanted for attempted murder is said to be armed and dangerous, the Virgin Islands Police Department warned the community Monday.
(#LinkInBio): https://stcroixsource.com/2023/06/05/wanted-calvin-parker-for-attempted-murder-said-to-be-armed-and-dangerous/
📸: WANTED: Calvin Parker (VIPD
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V.I. Native Janette Brin, founder and owner of Caribbean POSH, announced the Caribbean’s leading women’s empowerment event is coming to St.Thomas, USVI, for the first time June 16-19.
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Last week, Antilles School began the weekend with a remarkable display of musical talent by one of its talented seniors, Alex Bared, who is soon to be an alumnus of the Antilles School. Bared put together an exceptional recital as part of his high school graduation requirements.
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📸: High school band rock it out on the stage. (Photo by Joshua Crawford Barry)
📸: Alex Bared gets ready to play a song dear to his heart. (Photo by Joshua Crawford Barry)
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A home repairman who became the subject of a three-year police search was picked up in Florida on Friday. Monday morning marked the initial St. Thomas court appearance for defendant Jeffrey Magras.
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📸: After allegations of home repair fraud surfaced in 2018 and 2019, an arrest warrant for Magras was signed by Magistrate Henry Carr III in July 2020. (Shutterstock image of gavel)
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A home repairman who became the subject of a three-year police search was picked up in Florida on Friday. Monday morning marked the initial St. Thomas court appearance for defendant Jeffrey Magras.
(#LinkinBio): https://stthomassource.com/content/2023/06/05/three-year-search-for-accused-fraudster-leads-to-court-appearance/
📸: After allegations of home repair fraud surfaced in 2018 and 2019, an arrest warrant for Magras was signed by Magistrate Henry Carr III in July 2020. (Shutterstock image of gavel)
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The suit filed by families of those killed in a horrific St. Thomas helicopter crash against engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce could go to trial in early June 2025, according to court records.
https://stthomassource.com/content/2023/06/05/helicopter-crash-trial-date-set/
📸: Two damaged stage three compressor blades examined by investigators. (Photo courtesy NTSB)
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Daryl Jaschen, director of @VITEMA, opened the weekly press briefing with a warning about an extraordinarily high-temperature forecast – between 102-107 degrees.
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📸: VITEMA director Daryl Jaschen talks about hurricane season. (Facebook screenshot)
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Police are on the lookout for a 24-year-old man said to be armed, dangerous and wanted for attempted murder. Read more now: https://stthomassource.com/content/2023/06/05/wanted-calvin-parker-for-attempted-murder-said-to-be-armed-and-dangerous/
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