Fridays | March 14 – May 16 | 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Webb Field | 1501 W Silver Springs
Levitt AMP Ocala – Public Art Project
The City of Ocala in partnership with, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Commission, Juneteenth Celebration Committee, and Marion Cultural Alliance (MCA) is excited to be working on the 2025 Levitt AMP Ocala Music Series. This will be our 9th year celebrating the series.
The Levitt AMP Ocala Music Series is supported in part by the Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation, which partners with changemakers and nonprofits across the country to activate underused outdoor spaces, creating welcoming and inclusive destinations where the power of free, live music brings people together, fosters belonging, and invigorates community life. www.levitt.org.
Medicare Now Covers Less Invasive Colorectal Cancer Tests
(NewsUSA) – Expanded Screening Coverage Can Reduce Needless Deaths
Colorectal cancer deaths are declining, but shocking regional, racial and ethnic disparities remain. Ac-cording to the American Cancer Society, Latinos in the United States are more likely to die from colorec-tal cancer than those in many Central and South American countries, and death rates among Black men and women are 40% higher than their white counterparts. Rural residents are also far more likely to die from this often-preventable disease than those in urban areas. Much of this is due to lack of screening.
Colorectal cancer care groups, minority healthcare advocates and doctors have long held that virtual colonoscopy, or CT Colonography, can overcome cultural stigmas and anxiety associated with this screening. In January, Medicare began covering virtual colonoscopy – which uses a CT scanner to gen-erate 3D, moving images of the colon that doctors examine for signs of cancer and for precancerous polyps, which can be removed before they become cancers. Continue reading
Governor Ron DeSantis Welcomes SpaceX’s Starship Operations to Florida
TALLAHASSEE Fla.—Today, Governor Ron DeSantis welcomed SpaceX’s decision to bring Starship launch capacities and processing operations to Florida. Starship will be the first rapidly and fully reusable launch vehicle in history, designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
In support of these missions, SpaceX will construct new launch and landing infrastructure for Starship at multiple pads within NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, pending environmental approval, as well as a new integration facility, called Gigabay, which will have more than 40 million cubic feet of vehicle processing space. The project includes at least $1.8 billion of SpaceX capital investment and will bring an estimated 600 new full-time jobs in the Space Coast by 2030. Continue reading
By TomL
I was listening to the Glen Beck radio on 97.3 and they were discussing belief in God and how AI could or might try to take over the way we process thoughts. AI will not understand religious beliefs. AI processes information that you feed into it. It will process things that it was taught. So we need to teach AI about religion and GOD in a logical sense. It is always dangerous to talk about religion and especially writing about it but here I go! Now remember I’m not a religious scholar. I am trying to get people to think about the future and AI.
Our belief in God is taught to us as history of our creator through the Bible. Without Adam and Eve taking a bite of an apple man kind would not exist. Reverse psychology has worked for years, “Don’t bite that Apple”. Remember man and woman have to eat to survive. There was no fire to cook with. It was a hard life to be born into. Continue reading
When you mention the word senior or veteran or oldest birthday I think of Howard Mautner. He has been our newspaper many times while at the military celebrations honoring veterans and our country. This time he was visiting the Parade of Senior Services. I caught him during a short break. As you can see he is wearing his veterans hat proudly. I thanked him for his service. Marion County has many seasoned warriors that are up in years. Thank Them all.
Dear Neighbor,
This week was the last of three busy weeks in Washington, D.C. On Tuesday evening, the House voted to pass a bill to keep the government open and funded. The Senate plans to vote on the legislation this morning to support President Trump’s agenda and keep the government open.
I introduced two pieces of legislation this week, one aimed at supporting our producers with necessary disaster assistance following hurricanes, and the second supporting maternal health. You can read more about each bill below and stay tuned for more legislative updates with more bills dropping in the next several weeks. Continue reading
The news media will go on for days on a subject, saying the same thing hour after hour, day after day. The jet that went down killing everyone. That was a shame, but the first video I saw I remember seeing flames, I said something happened mid air. But the media danced around that subject for the day and finally I heard a pilot being interviewed that said the plane was on fire coming down. So that meant there was a mid air problem. Now they claim the helicopter was not where it was suppose to be, or was it? It was to high and off course. It was not suppose to be over the river! I always feel bad when there is loss of life. This was avoidable.
While I’m writing about the media, I am disappointed in Fox not having the football games on regular TV Channel. You have to spend more money. We the working class is tap out. I don’t anyone that can afford the tickets unless they are on federal relief money. I am disappointed! Continue reading
Ocala Metro Chamber of Commerce: HCA Florida West Marion Hospital hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of its new, larger operating suite, the first in a series of expanded treatment areas that will open in the hospital’s new tower. This investment in state-of-the-art facilities is a huge step forward in enhancing care and supporting the health of our community. Photo credit: Ocala Metro CEP Communications Team
COMMUNITY CALENDARS AND LOCAL EVENTS:
Friends of the Ocala Public Library is holding its next clearance book sale beginning on Friday, April 4 (for Friends members only, but memberships are available at the door) from 1:30 pm-3:30 pm, and then opens to the general public on Saturday, April 5, 10 am-2 pm. Sale is held in the Ocala Public Library headquarters meeting rooms, 2720 Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala.
Proceeds of the sale benefit children and adult programs, materials, audio and ebooks, and staff development at Ocala main, Reddick, Ft. McCoy, and Sankofa branches of the Marion County Public Library system.
All childrens books and all paperback books are 25 cents each, and all hardbacks are 50 cents each. Cash and checks only.
By TomL
Al Green is doing it again for the fourth attempt! Just a few weeks into the President Trumps elections win they are trying to impeach the president again! The Democrats have nothing to fight with but to ruin Donald Trump. Donald Trump makes a statement about something that can be done with Gaza and Chuck Schumer, Maxine Waters, Al Green and Democrats go crazy! This is Trumps way of negotiating you fools, right now who would want land that has been reduced to ruble and full of land mines? After he announced his idea how many people want to invest in the war torn land? Probably a lot! The Democrats took the bait. Chuck Schumer, Al Green, Maxine Waters and others are trying to incite their followers to burn the place down! I hope they don’t take the bait. The Blacks have been used by the Democrats enough. The only way to stop rioters is by force! The body’s will be piled up in the streets. All because the Democrats lost the election and don’t want peaceful transition. I am not anti-black they just want a better life, the dems promise them that? TO THE DEMOCRATS YOU LOST! The American people wanted you out! You have misused to much of our Tax money to many times.
WHAT SAY YOU? I would like to hear you opinion? tloury@att.net
