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Tuesday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› Indoor audiences can see Pasco school sports teams, but not arts groups
For teens whose school world revolves around their semester productions, the rule made an already disappointing year even worse. Indoor volleyball games are being played before crowds. Hundreds of kids have filled the gym to take ACT and SAT tests. Football crowds sit shoulder to shoulder in the stands, cheering on their teams.
› Demand for post office inspections after mail backlog in South Florida included ballots
After a report of undelivered ballots that were found amid a backlog of mail in south Miami-Dade County, some voters in St. Lucie, Martin, and Indian River Counties have expressed concern as Election Day nears. U.S. Postal Service Office investigators said Saturday they found six completed ballots and 42 blank ballots among piles of undelivered mail in a post office near Homestead on the Florida peninsula’s southern tip.
› Gatorland offers $20.21 discount package for November
Gatorland is beginning to wrap up 2020 with a $20.21 deal dubbed the Greater Gator Package. It will be available through November. The combo ticket includes a single-day admission to the attraction, a ride on the Gatorland Express train, Gator Chow to feed the animals and the Meet-A-Gator Experience at the Alligators: Legends of the Swamp Arena.
› Is Trader Joe’s coming to Coral Gables? No one’s talking, but it sure looks like it
Trader Joe’s, the grocer with a quirky vibe and legions of devotees, is planning to open a new store in Coral Gables. City officials confirmed on Friday that the German-owned chain has applied for a permit to build a store at the Gables Station mixed-use development now under construction on U.S. 1, five miles north of the perennially packed Trader Joe’s store in Pinecrest.
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