As Hurricane Milton pummels Florida’s west coast with powerful winds and flooding rain, environmentalists are worried it could scatter the polluted leftovers of the state’s phosphate fertilizer mining industry and other hazardous waste across the peninsula and into vulnerable waterways.

In a release, police said they responded to the school around 2:40 p.m. after receiving a report about “a possible assault in progress” at the school’s football field.

The Florida governor will be holding a news conference Thursday afternoon in New Port Richey, which is near Tarpon Springs.

Last school year, Peck-Bartle added the history of Tarpon Springs’ Rose Cemetery to her curriculum. Buried in the Black cemetery are pioneers of the sponge docks and a Confederate soldier. But why not include all local Black cemeteries, she asked, from the endangered and forgotten to the lost, erased and recently found? “Let the people know our history because so much of our Black history has been depressed, ignored and forgotten. He believes keeping it community-owned is why it lasted while other Black cemeteries were abandoned, lost, destroyed or erased.