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The Progress-Index PETERSBURG — Patrick Ingram was scheduled to fly to London when the U.S. announced that it was shutting down the borders in response to the growing spread of what is now COVID-19.  The Center for Disease Control just declared the novel coronavirus, at the time, a pandemic just two days prior. The flight to London was eerie, said Ingram. The Boeing 767-400 plane can seat over 300 passengers, but only eight were in attendance. The flight back to the states, however, was something out of a nightmare.  Upon entering the flight gate, the area was packed with people Ingram sa...

The Progress-Index PETERSBURG – The nearly five-year tenure of City Manager Aretha Ferrell-Benavides comes to a close this week, after which she will return to her home state of Texas to fill the same role in the City of Duncanville, a suburb of Dallas.  She arrived in 2017 to a Petersburg in disarray. The city had recently discovered that its cash reserves had plunged into the red, sitting at negative $7.7 million months before her arrival, which prompted the hiring of the Robert Bobb Group, a Washington D.C.-based consulting firm to steady the city’s operations.  In Tuesday...