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.