Scholarships for teachers part of state budget
- June 18, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / education
The state budget heading to a vote Friday includes $44 million that would be used to award "scholarships" of as much as $10,000 to teachers based on their SAT or ACT scores.
Innovation centers on the rise
- June 17, 2015
- / David Tortorano, Gulf Coast Reporters League
- / economy
Research-based centers along the Gulf Coast, including the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, raising area's intellectual, economic profile.
Baptist redevelopment plans could boost neighborhood
- June 17, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / government
Pensacola's CRA approved pitching in for Baptist Health Care revitalization project to boost neighborhood, build professional office space for hospital.
RBI Youth Baseball hosts community yard sale, festival
- June 17, 2015
- / Staff Reports
- / community-dashboard
The RBI Youth Baseball program is hosting a Community Yard Sale and Festival on June 27 at the Pensacola Blue Wahoos parking lot on the corner of Main and DeVilliers streets.
WSRE's Thursday local lineup new through July
- June 17, 2015
- / Staff Reports
- / community-dashboard
WSRE's summer schedule of local programming is set for Thursdays beginning June 18 with new editions of Studio Amped and Conversations with Jeff Weeks.
As state budget "cools", a look a local projects in it
- June 17, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / government
State Rep. Clay Ingram, R-Pensacola, noted a couple of things of local interest that made it into the budget document that the Legislature will make final.
Healthy Start celebrates 'soft' opening on Wednesday
- June 16, 2015
- / Mollye Barrows
- / training-development
Healthy Start prepares for clinic's 'soft' opening in Century Wednesday, June 17. The clinic will provide services to help mothers have healthy pregnancies.
Filling the aviation pipeline
- June 16, 2015
- / Duwayne Escobedo, Gulf Coast Reporters League
- / education
Educators from Pensacola State College and across the region are preparing tracks to build a workforce able to power the aerospace industry and its related spinoffs.
New farmers market coming to Perdido
- June 16, 2015
- / Louis Cooper
- / community-dashboard
Perdido Key will have its own farmers market beginning June 20 with the grand opening of the Perdido Farmers Market, located at Baars Field.
Blue Wahoos homestand highlights
- June 16, 2015
- / Staff Reports
- / community-dashboard
Blue Wahoos welcome the Mobile BayBears this week in a series that includes two firework nights, the Wahoo Waddle, Pirate Bash, ZOOperstars and more.