Category: Caring
Homeless count increases 62 percent
At its General Coalition meeting yesterday, Opening Doors released the Point-in-Time Count for 2023 – 1,180, up 62% from last year. Opening Doors has been…
Sheriff: Operation Brownsville a pilot program
Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons hopes to duplicate Operation Brownsville in other neighborhoods in the county. Over the next 60 days, his agency will work…
Rules of Brian Doyle Skatepark
With the Blake Doyle Community Skatepark set to open to the public on May 2, the City of Pensacola encourages skatepark users to review the…
Real News: Tuesday, April 25, 2023
In 2015, Shannon Nickinson and the Studer Community Institute developed a map showing the Escambia County neighborhoods with the largest percentages of children living in…
Apply for Cox event grants
Local nonprofits that are planning fundraising and awareness events in the Gulf Coast market are encouraged to apply for an event sponsorship from Cox Communications….
Moorhead Law wins Battle of the Barristers
Moorhead Law Group took home the trophy at United Way of West Florida’s 2nd Annual Battle of the Barristers. The event tested the knowledge of…
Real News: Friday, April 21, 2023
Will Kennedy gives an update on UWF athletics. The involuntary manslaughter charges against Alec Baldwin have been dropped. Jason Nathanson explains why. Casino Beach Bar…
Larrison Campbell and ‘Devil in the Ditch’
On June 13, 2003, Martha Dyer Campbell, 85 was found dead by her sister in the garden room of her big house in the affluent…
Homework: Devil in the Ditch
Journalist Larrison Campbell returns to her hometown, Greenville, Mississippi, to reexamine the unsolved murder of her grandmother, Presh, 20 years after the death rocked the…
Evening with Temple Grandin
The Autism Coalition of Nevada invites the greater Gulf Coast community to attend “An Evening with Temple Grandin” April 20th, 2023 at the Jean &…
Six deepest pockets of poverty [podcast]
Eight years ago, the Studer Community Institute published a map showing the pockets of poverty in Escambia County based on the 2014 census data. Inweekly…
Learn better communication skills through the words and life of Dr. Martin Luther King
What: Communicating the Dr. King Way Where: Pensacola Public Library, 239 N. Spring St., Pensacola When: Tuesday May 9 5:30 pm PENSACOLA—Join us as we…
Stamp Out Hunger, May 13
The annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive is only a month away. Letter Carriers will be picking up food donations on May 13. Organized by…
Beyond Van Gogh tickets go on sale tomorrow
Imagine being completely immersed in more than 300 of the greatest works of post-Impressionist artist Vincent Van Gogh. Now imagine experiencing all of this art…
Showtime tickets on sale
Tickets now available for Pensacola Children’s Chorus’s (PCC) – Showtime,the best of stage and screen! Reserve your tickets for PCC’s third and final concert of the…
Gardening Event hosted by Magdalene set for April 15
Gardening Event hosted by Magdalene’s Inc. on Saturday, April 15at 9:30 a.m. at Magdalene’s on 3268 Fordham Road in Gulf Breeze. Here is the info…
Gun deaths among kids rose 50% from 2019 to 2021
Recent analysis of the latest annual mortality statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by the Pew Research Center found the number…
Trust releases new brochure
Press Release: Escambia Children’s Trust Releases A to Z Comprehensive Family Resource Guide for Escambia County Pensacola, FL, April 5, 2023 – Today the Escambia Children’s…
Sheriff launches Operation Brownsville (not Good Neighbor, oops)
By Tom St. Myer Gun violence dominated the public forum discussion, but measures put in place to improve Brownsville as a whole took center stage…
Tate High FFA supports Meals of Hope
Tate High School FFA and volunteers worked Friday to package 57,600 meals for the community through Meals of Hope. Volunteers included current students in Tate…
