Best of the Coast 2024 Ballot
Best of the Coast 2024 FAQ
Ready • Set • Summer
Stirring Up the Melting Pot
A&E Happenings 5/9/24
Best of the Coast 2024 Ballot
Just like we have every year for the last 24 years, we’re asking all of you to play favorites and vote in our Best of the Coast poll. That means your most important opinions—like…
Best of the Coast 2024 FAQ
Even though we’ve been doing this Best of the Coast thing a long, long time, we know some of you still have questions. We also know some of you might need a friendly reminder…
Ready • Set • Summer
If you follow the solstice cycle, summer starts on June 20 this year. But we all know that’s way too late around here. Not only will school be out for almost a month by…
Stirring Up the Melting Pot
By Sydney Robinson Local filmmaker and community organizer Calvin Griffin will bring back his spring festival Gulf Coast Culture Fest for its fourth year, and this time, he hopes it will be bigger and…
A&E Happenings 5/9/24
Nonprofits & Fundraisers The Big Gown Ball Collect special occasion clothing and gowns for women and girls in need 4 p.m. Saturday, May 11 at Gary’s Brewery, 208 Newman Ave. Tastings, silent auction and…
‘Strive to Thrive’
By Tom St. Myer During his campaign for mayor in 2022, D.C. Reeves promised a long overdue strategic plan for the City of Pensacola. His promise is coming to fruition in the form of…
Winners & Losers 5/9/24
Winners Sacred Heart Pensacola The Ascension hospital earned a spring 2024 Hospital Safety Grade A from The Leapfrog Group, an independent national watchdog organization that grades almost 3,000 general hospitals throughout the U.S. This…
Outtakes—A Matter of Trust
By Rick Outzen On Thursday, May 2, the Escambia Board of County Commissioners canceled a public hearing to discuss the Escambia Children’s Trust’s request to keep $1,134,025 that Florida law states should have gone…
The Buzz 5/9/24
SIXTH BLAZER ACADEMY CLASS On April 30, families, friends and Escambia County Sheriff’s Office celebrated the completion of the sixth Blazer Academy class as Sheriff Chip W. Simmons presented the young men with their…
News Of The Weird 5/9/24
By the Editors at Andrews McMeel Creme de la Weird The latest plane failure story—about the emergency slide that fell off a Boeing 767 leaving JFK Airport last week—gets a “whodathunkit” follow-up, the New…
Winners & Losers 5/2/24
Winners Lyndsey Stevens The Escambia County Board of County Commissioners approved Stevens as the new purchasing director. Her duties include overseeing the county’s procurement program, developing purchasing policies and procedures and implementing a long-term…
Outtakes—Hitting Its Stride
By Rick Outzen The University of West Florida (UWF) launched its “Here for Good” capital campaign with $65 million of its $90 million already contributed—a fantastic achievement. Howard Reddy, the vice president for the…
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