‘Hospitable’ Replacements Removed by Jeremy Morrison Anyone looking to take a load off in MLK, Jr. Plaza on Palafox may have noticed a shifting landscape. For so long, the benches were gone….
Category: Caring
Epps Center needs volunteers for tomorrow
Food Giveaway at Epps Christian Center When: 7:30 a.m. to Noon, Thursday, Sept. 15 Where: Epps Christian Center, 2202 N. Pace Blvd Volunteers are needed to help bag up food and pass…
Podcast: Wiggins wants REAP camp reviewed
Councilman Delarian Wiggins has called for a moratorium on any more city funding for Re-Entry Alliance of Pensacola (REAP) until the city can review REAP’s expenditures for its homeless camp on West…
StudioAmped returns
After a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19, WSRE’s “StudioAmped” music series will return with five free concerts in the Jean & Paul Amos Performance Studio: Royal Horses on Monday, Sept. 26; Lex…
Aetna Better Health partners with Gulf Coast Kid’s House
Aetna Better Health of Florida, a CVS Health® company, joined Gulf Coast Kid’s House today to announce their new partnership to combat child abuse and human trafficking. Aetna said they are making…
Escape from REAP hell
This past weekend, Inweekly interviewed a woman who had lived two weeks at the Re-Entry Alliance Pensacola’s outdoor camp on the Pathway for Change’s property on Blount Street behind Baptist Hospital. The…
How dead is Achieve Escambia?
The Early Learning Coalition of Escambia County has made the decision to no longer participate in Achieve Escambia, according to the coalition’s executive director’s report for August. The executive director, Bruce Watson,…
Children’s Trust plans to spend $15 million directly on children
The Escambia Children’s Trust will approve its FY 2022-23 Interim Strategic Plan at its board meeting this afternoon at 5:30 p.m. The plan calls for $15,031,374 on direct services, with an additional…
Running with the Bulls returns next month
The 11th Annual “Running of the Bulls” will take place in Historic Downtown Pensacola on Saturday, Oct. 8, to benefit USO of Northwest Florida. This event is a tribute to Pensacola’s Spanish…
Podcast: Finish Her Run
Many women of Pensacola and the Pensacola running community honored the life of Eliza Fletcher and finished her run this morning exactly one week to the minute of when she was believed…
Escambia eyes CORE funds for overdoses
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly With more than a million dollars expected to flow into Escambia County from the state of Florida to deal with local overdose deaths, local officials are starting to…
Podcast: City seeks input on Arts and Culture priorities
The City of Pensacola is seeking the public’s input on arts and culture in the Pensacola community, in order to help identify and shape the priorities of the newly-created Cultural Affairs Program….