City awarded $500,000 grant for Alice S. Williams Library Restoration Project

The City of Pensacola has been awarded a $500,000 African American Cultural and Historical grant from the State of Florida for the Alice S. Williams…

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Lakeview has new parent and brand

Press release: Lakeview Center celebrates a milestone today in its journey as an independent nonprofit, one year after separating from Baptist Health Care. After a 25-year…

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Community Health Palafox Two opens

Community Health Northwest Florida’s Behavioral Health & Wellness and Optometric Vision Care departments have a brand new home. Familiarly dubbed “Palafox Two” among Community Health…

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Florida United Ways respond to Hurricane Ian

Escambia and Santa Rosa counties escaped the devastation of Hurricane Ian. But many people are looking for ways to assist communities hit by the storm….

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Real News podcasts: Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022

Banker Bruce Vredenburg explains why we should renew the the Economic Development Ad Valorem Tax Exemption (EDATE) program. The University of West Florida Haas Center…

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Gulf Breeze Will Do has $130K+ in grant requests

Gulf Breeze Will Do (GBWD), a women’s philanthropic group, received more than $130,000 requests in grant applications for 2022. Grant review committees are set to…

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Baptist: ‘Everything is Bigger’

Baptist Offers Peek of New Healthcare Campus By Jeremy Morrison Next fall, Baptist Healthcare plans to open its new campus, currently being developed off of…

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Sheriff focused on finding suspects in Bellview shooting [podcast]

On WCOA this morning, Sheriff Chip Simmons repeated his request for any video taken by fans at the Bellview Park football on Saturday where one…

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First City Art Center Pumpkin Patch [podcast]

First City Art Center’s 16th annual Glass and Ceramic Pumpkin Patch takes place on Saturday, Oct. 8 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Blue…

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Habitat establishes Land Trust

Hopes to ‘Go Back to Roots’ of Affordable Housing Mission By Jeremy Morrison As the dynamics of the economy evolve — particularly rising housing costs…

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Triumph: Our ‘golden ticket’

Laura DiBella, the deputy secretary of the Florida Department of Commerce, was in Pensacola yesterday to speak with local business leaders about Enterprise Florida. “We…

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Elizabeth Eckford shares her story

Yesterday, I posted the podcast of my interview with Elizabeth Eckford, who recounted her experience as she and eight other students desegregated Little Rock Central…

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