Every Thursday afternoon, sa Pobla would stop in front of the television. On the screen, there were the festivals, the news, the neighbors, the familiar faces. It was the town looking at itself.

The sale of the warehouse and the rustic land exploited by the founding company l'Esplet is now the last chapter in the disappearance of a benchmark in the Balearic countryside. At the beginning of the month, the company's closure and the dismissal of its 19 workers due to economic problems were made public. Now, two weeks later, the company is selling the warehouse and land for five million euros.

The Teachers' Assembly of IES Can Peu Blanc, in sa Pobla, has publicly expressed its support for the Teachers' Assembly of IES Alcúdia following the recent reported attack on a teacher.

The Sa Pobla Town Council will file an appeal against the disciplinary proceedings initiated by the Regional Ministry of Health regarding alleged deficiencies in the control and recording of drinking water analyses, arguing that there are grounds to justify the municipality's actions. The mayor of Sa Pobla, Biel Ferragut, along with several council members, met this week with officials from the Regional Ministry to personally address the issue, after reviewing the contents of the file and the documentation received. According to the Town Council, in response to specific spikes in nitrate levels exceeding the limit of 50 milligrams per liter, the Municipal Water Service took immediate action to correct the results and improve the quality of the supply, with the aim of ensuring compliance with health standards. The data from the analyses carried out, available in the National Drinking Water Information System (SINAC), show that the average nitrate level over the last five years has been 45.74 mg/L in the main reservoir and 49.55 mg/L in the second reservoir. In the case of the main reservoir, of the 39 samples collected between 2021 and 2025, only five exceeded the established limits for nitrates. According to the City Council, this demonstrates that these were isolated exceedances and that the overall trend remains close to the regulatory threshold and below the maximum permitted level. The local government has reiterated its commitment to public health, transparency, and continuous improvement of the service, and has maintained that water management has been carried out diligently and with corrective measures in place.

The Vox groups in the town halls of Sa Pobla, Manacor, and Felanitx have submitted a coordinated motion in their respective municipalities to prohibit the use of items that obscure facial recognition in public buildings, explicitly mentioning the niqab and the burka. In a statement released this Monday, the party indicated that concealing the face "with items not traditionally used in Spain hinders the performance of public duties and the prevention of identity theft." The councilors have requested that the legal departments of their respective town halls draft internal regulations implementing this prohibition to ensure the rule is clear and publicly available to all citizens.

Libraries have once again made headlines, and this time, for reasons that have little or nothing to do with their function or operation. The latest issue is the report that the Palma City Council will produce—at the suggestion of Vox and with the support of the People's Party (PP)—to determine how many books in the municipal catalog are in Spanish and how many are in Catalan. According to the far-right party, Spanish books are in the minority in Palma's libraries, especially in the children's and young adult sections, an anomaly that should be corrected, they say, to protect users' linguistic rights. This is the same argument the PP has used to justify including Spanish in literary competitions, to guarantee "the freedom of local authors" who wish to participate. However, of the six prizes in Spanish awarded at the Palma City Awards since 2023, none have gone to a local author, and only one out of five in the Mallorca Prizes has been awarded.

Sa Pobla once again came alive this Friday as the traditional epicenter of one of Mallorca's most deeply rooted and unique celebrations, the Sant Antoni festival. From early evening, the town's streets filled with fire, music, devils, local residents, and local authorities, all ready to experience a night that, year after year, reaffirms the collective identity of a town that has kept this tradition alive for over six centuries.

Sa Pobla will experience one of the most anticipated moments of its festive calendar this Friday night with a pyrotechnic and musical show that will fill the town with light, sound, and color. The event, which will take place at 9:45 p.m. in the town's main square, will bring together locals and visitors for an evening that promises to be one of the highlights of the Sant Antoni program and will be presented by Pirotecnia Jordà.

Crespí, Soler, García, Socias, Martínez, and Gelabert are the surnames of the six young men who will play the role of devils for the Sant Antoni festivities in Sa Pobla in 2027. Their public selection is one of the events that kick off this year's celebrations and is the result of a raffle that attracted around eighty candidates. Most of the lucky winners have lineages linked to the municipality of Sa Pobla since ancient times; others, a smaller number, are of Castilian origin. But do the surnames of these six young men reflect the reality of Sa Pobla's social composition, which, as throughout the Balearic Islands, is increasingly diverse in terms of origins? Considering that the first Moroccans arrived in the first half of the 1980s, has no devil yet been chosen who is of Hamdaoui or Saidi lineage?

Nordin, a 24-year-old Moroccan, arrived in Sa Pobla almost three months before Sant Antoni in 2007. On January 16th, he wasn't yet in school, and his parents told him not to go out too much because he didn't know anyone in town. However, for the Sant Antoni festival, he went to the main square and saw "caparrots, devils, and a huge crowd," he recalls. The following year, he was already playing at stealing the devils' brooms and running off without fear. Since then, he has felt part of the festival and celebrates it year after year.

The prosecution accuses the former head of the Otorhinolaryngology Service of the Son Espases University Hospital in Palma of manslaughter due to gross negligence and requests a two-year prison sentence for the death of Joan Comes, the former mayor of Sa Pobla, following an operation.

The "Save Sa Marjal" platform has reported that the Balearic Government has launched a new route for the train that will connect Sa Pobla and Alcúdia. This, they explained in a post on their Facebook account, would not involve expropriations, as the route would run through public land.

The Association of Friends of the Balearic Islands Railway has submitted a document with various allegations regarding the extension of the train from Sa Pobla to Alcudia, presenting route proposals to minimize its landscape impact.

The "Este tren no!" platform has estimated that at least 400 objections have been submitted to the planned extension of the train from Sa Pobla to Alcúdia. This figure, according to a report on social media this Monday, was recorded in the Sa Pobla Town Hall registry as of last Thursday. These objections must also be added to those submitted to other town halls and regional departments, both on paper and online.

The GOB (Basque Government) called this Monday for the withdrawal of the current Sa Pobla-Alcúdia train project, which it considers "unsustainable, socially unjust, and legally weak," and demanded a complete redesign with citizen participation and respect for the territory. The organization has demanded its withdrawal within the framework of the public comment period.

The Regional Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and the Environment has declared the forest fire that broke out this Thursday afternoon in the Sant Miquel stream in Sa Pobla under control. According to Europa Press, the fire was confirmed at 5:05 p.m. and was declared a potential severity level of 1. At 7:00 p.m., it was declared under control and became a potential severity level of 0.