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We are hearing the clean-up crews at Pensacola Beach don’t have enough rakes to clean up the brown tar balls. There is no way that…

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Escambia County Health Department Pensacola, FL FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 23, 2010 1235 CDT HA002 Health advisory issued for portion of beach due to oil…

Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key Update Wednesday, June 23 – 12:30 a.m. – Update #20 If you see tar or oiled debris on the beach….

The Jimmy Buffett and Friends benefit concert scheduled for July 1 in Gulf Shores is officially out of tickets. Tickets for the free show were…

Mobile Press Register: Story 1: Fort Morgan-A two-inch layer of submerged oil hugged portions of the Gulf seafloor off the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge…

Nothing is ever clean when it comes to this BP oil disaster that is entering its ninth week. Canadian Business Online is reporting that U.S….

The Gannett blog reports that Gannett has started outsourcing the moderation of the comments readers post on its websites. Gannett may have finally conceded that…

From Discovery’s Bad Astronomy website and courtesy of NASA and the MODIS Rapid Response Team: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/06/22/damn/

I missed Doug Suttles, BP’s chief operating officer, yesterday. The visit was a surprise that had Santa Rosa Island Authority and Escambia County officials scrambling…

Daily News (FWB): While large amounts of tar balls continued to wash up on Walton County beaches Tuesday, Okaloosa County’s oil forecast for the rest…

For the past two days, I’ve been asked why hasn’t Pensacola Mike Wiggins spoke out against the petition drive by former councilmen Jack Nobles and…

At 11:08 p.m. Tuesday, June 22, I received this email from a visitor from Dallas, Tex.: I benefited from your blog reports of Pensacola Beach….

The blog has grown beyond Northwest Florida. We are approaching a million page views a month. Some of the new readers have been drawn here…

For Immediate Release June 22, 2010 4:30 p.m. CST Latest Oil Spill Developments Dear Neighbor, As dime to five inch-sized tar balls and tar “patties”…

Press Release: Pensacola Young Professionals today affirmed a decision made in 2006 to support the Community Maritime Park. Kristine Karsten, President of Pensacola Young Professionals,…

Newsweek Magazine ranked Pensacola High School 21st in the nation in its annual high school evaluation. This ranking was determined by comparing the number of…

Gulf Oil Spill Doobie Brothers Parody by Steve Goodie:

BP has already killed countless sea turtles in its careless and cruel operations managing the Gulf oil spill, and we must send a strong message…

More emails from Pensacola’s one and only PAC man, Charlie Fairchild: ________________________________ From the web designer Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 11:44 PM To: Farichild…