Time to share your RESTORE project is here
- July 13, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / community-dashboard
With $58 million BP settlement figure finalized, time is now to submit project ideas for RESTORE Act funding. Meetings on how to register a project are ongoing.
Special meeting July 16 to consider Studer leases
- July 13, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / training-development
Pensacola City Council will meet in a special session to consider leases to three parcels at the Community Maritime Park proposed by Quint and Rishy Studer.
Dropping out of high school is a killer
- July 10, 2015
- / Reggie Dogan
- / education
High school dropouts face far more challenges than high school graduates including lower pay, higher incarceration rates and premature death.
Pensacola rapper Big Lo brings music diversity to Vinyl on Saturday
- July 10, 2015
- / Mike Ensley
- / community-dashboard
“This show is a great way to introduce audiences to different forms of electronic music,” Lopez said. “It’s a diverse lineup of artists with hip hop, electronic dance music and traditional DJing.”
Defendants face burden in 'stand your ground' cases
- July 10, 2015
- / Jim Saunders
- / community-dashboard
In a case that started with a tourist brandishing a gun during a traffic dispute, the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday said people who use the state's controversial
Supreme Court strikes down congressional districts
- July 10, 2015
- / Brandon Larrabee
- / community-dashboard
The 5-2 decision, which featured a split between the court's more-liberal majority and its conservative minority, will likely force lawmakers to return to Tallahassee for their third session of the year. It also marked the second time that justices had tossed out a map drawn by the Republican-dominated Legislature as part of the 2012 redistricting process.
90Works set to host Go Green event
- July 10, 2015
- / staff reports
- / community-dashboard
Volunteers and community leaders will lend their time to complete the makeovers of eight low-income homes. Once abandoned homes will be renovated to house homeless families, individuals and veterans.
Remembering Hurricane Dennis 10 years later
- July 9, 2015
- / Louis Cooper
- / community-dashboard
Hurricane Dennis made its mark on the Panhandle and Santa Rosa County a decade ago this week. Dennis came ashore near Gulf Breeze at about 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 10, 2005.
Blue Wahoos offer a full plate of events
- July 9, 2015
- / Reggie Dogan
- / community-dashboard
The Pensacola Bllue Wahoos gear up for a weekend of games and activities that includes Friday beach towel give away, fireworks on Saturday and a team photo autograph session on Sunday.
Early learning could get federal boost
- July 9, 2015
- / Margie Menzel
- / education
Early Learning officials are hoping for federal funding after state lawmakers failed to pass legislation that would raise health and safety standards for voluntary pre-kindergarten and school-readiness programs for the second year in a row.