Category: Caring
Studers give YMCA $5 million without restrictions
Press Release: Today officials from the Northwest Florida YMCA announced that Quint and Rishy Studer, in what is one of the largest private donations to…
Commissioner May sets up Constituent Service Offices
Press Release: In the coming weeks, District 3 Commissioner Lumon May will host a variety of Constituent Service Offices throughout the area and meet with…
Bipartisan bill in Congress will create independent office to investigate military rapes
Press Release: Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA), Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA) reintroduce The STOP Act to end epidemic of sexual assault in…
WSRE Imagination Station opens today at Bayfront Stadium
Press Release: Pensacola State College Learning Lab and WSRE Imagination Station officially open to public on Wahoos Opening Day. Pensacola State College’s Learning Lab and…
National Flight Academy Graduates First Class of 2013
Press Release: The National Flight Academy will hold a graduation ceremony for the first group of 7th-12th grade students to complete the Ambition program in…
Marrero will stay as artistic director of Pensacola Opera
Pensacola Opera’s Artistic Director of 13 years, Dr. Kyle Marrero, has been named president of University of West Georgia. Dr. Marrero’s presidency of the Georgia…
IMPACT 100 Membership Reaches Historic High
Organization will Give $836,000 to the Non-Profit Community Pensacola, FL, March 22, 2013 – IMPACT 100 Pensacola Bay Area, a local women’s philanthropy group, is…
We should all be so lucky to have an obituary like this
Harry Weathersby Stamps December 19, 1932 — March 9, 2013 Long Beach, Mississippi Harry Weathersby Stamps, ladies’ man, foodie, natty dresser, and accomplished traveler, died…
Conversations that Create Positive Change
Think Beyond Quarterly Dialogue Meeting Think Beyond will hold its quarterly community dialogue meeting Thursday March 28, 2013 at the Pensacola Museum of Art from…
Baptist Health Care supports YMCA @ CMP
Mark Faulkner, President and CEO, Baptist Health Care “Baptist Health Care is excited by the prospect of a new Downtown YMCA facility and the role…
Rayonier Seedling Giveaway
On March 10 from noon until 4 p.m. PYP will be handing out 1,200 bare-root seedlings (one year old) on a first come, first served…
Report: FL Families Still Struggle to Put Food on Table
By Stephanie Carroll Carson, Florida News Connection TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Florida economy may be showing some signs of improvement, but that recovery has yet…
Evenings in Olde Seville Square resurrected
The Evenings in Olde Seville Square concert series is back. After sponsoring more than 350 free concerts over 25 years and creating an annual Pensacola…
PYP supports YMCA @ Maritime Park
In a recent survey of PYP members, which garnered over 90 responses, 78% of our members expressed their support for the plan to move the…
Missing senior citizen found
Press Release: The Escambia Sheriff’s Office would like to update a news release from earlier today: 91-year-old Geneva Woods, who has been missing since February…
Woman, age 91, missing. ECSO asks for help.
Escambia Sheriff’s Investigators are searching for a 91-year-old woman who was last seen on Feb. 18, 2013. Geneva Woods (D.O.B. 5-18-1921) was last seen in…
Darius Rucker Coming to Pensacola Bay Center, tickets go on sale March 1
Rucker will play May 10. He will be joined by Jana Kramer and Justin Moore. Darius Rucker’s just released his latest album “True Believers” (Fourth…
Fr. Jack Gray passes away
Nancy Fetterman sent me an email that Fr. Jack Gray, the retired pastor of St. Anne’s Catholic Church on Saufley Field Road and a chaplain…
Commissioner May and Ministers to Reach Out Montclair Community
Press Release: Escambia County Commissioner Lumon May, District 3, will join a group of local ministers in the Montclair neighborhood Friday, February 15. This free…
Interview with Pensacola Civil Rights Icon
Rev. H.K. Matthews, founder and first president of the Escambia County chapter of Southern Christian Leadership Conference, visited the Independent News today to thank us…
