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The Kitchen Witches adds Wednesday show

The Pensacola Little Theatre has added a performance of The Kitchen Witches on Wednesday, Oct. 9 at 7:30 pm, as well as an additional matinee…

The 2013 Paula Threat Award is now accepting nominations

In honor of Paula Threatâ€™s inspiring dedication, the EscaRosa Homeless Coalition Board of Directors want to recognize an area Grassroots Leader helping to prevent and/or…

Symphony will perform on Saturday

After carefully considering the latest projections from the National Hurricane Center regarding Tropical Storm Karen, Pensacola Symphony Orchestraâ€™s â€˜Opening Nightâ€™ performance will proceed as scheduled…

Downtown Wine Festival Cancelled

The Downtown Improvement Board (DIB) and organizers of the Wine Festival located in Downtown Pensacola are cancelling the scheduled Wine Festival on October 5, 2013…

Floridians Have Access to Health Exchange Despite State Actions

By Stephanie Carroll Carson, Florida News Connection On Tuesday, almost 3 million Floridians will be eligible for health coverage under the insurance exchange created by…

Brand On Us Unveils the New Pensacola Humane Society

Press Release: idgroup has successfully completed their First Annual Brand on Usâ„¢ project. Mona Amodeo, idgroup President, says her team is â€œpassionate about giving back…

Kudos for Faces of HIV cover story

Independent News Attn: Sarah McCartan and Rick Outzen Dear Sarah and Rick: Thank you for your insightful article, “Meet the Faces of HIV.” As the…

Living on the Edge: Pensacola featured in story about digital economy for the homeless

Wired has a story on how our city’s homeless have figured out how to us bitcoins, the worldâ€™s most popular digital currency, to survive. Jesse…

IMPACT 100 Announces 2013 Finalists

IMPACT 100 Pensacola Bay Area, a local womenâ€™s philanthropy group, is pleased to announce the 15 grant finalists selected for 2013. Eight of these 15…

Buzz: ACE requests to make presentation

There really are two tourism issues facing the Escambia Board of County Commissioners: the governance and control of $5.5 million in bed tax dollars and…

NY Giant talks about his rehab in Pensacola

Maybe the Escambia County Commission should contribute bed tax dollars to the Andrews Institute for all the publicity Dr. Andrews and his patients give the…

Iraqi War veteran, covered 9/5 IN news story, dies

Navid “G” Garshasb passed away last night. We wrote about him and his struggle to provide for his family this week– “One Last Battle: Dying…

Florida and Texas lead the nation in uninsured citizens, but balk at Obamacare coverage

A new Census Bureau report shows that Florida has a higher percentages of people without health insurance than most of the country. Only Texas has…

Escambia County Responds to Cowgirlâ€™s Death

By Sarah McCartan This afternoon, Escambia County Director of Community Affairs Marilyn Wesley, responded to the accidental euthanasia of Danielle Riggensâ€™ Labrador retriever mix Cow…

County animal shelter mistakenly kills family pet

Facebook and the web were lit up this weekend over the story of a family pet being killed at the Escambia County Animal Shelter due…

Bonfire Jam canceled

BonfireJam CEO Joe Lewis announced today that this yearâ€™s event will be canceled as it became evident that the investment is no longer financially viable….

Food stamp cut coming, food banks have to pick up influx

By Stephanie Carroll Carson, Florida News Connection About 2.6 million people in Florida will have less money to spend on groceries starting this November. SNAP…