AppRiver flows with high-tech energy
- July 31, 2015
- / Louis Cooper
- / economy
AppRiver has grown into a $50-million business headquartered in Gulf Breeze that brings high-wage jobs, intellectual capital to Northwest Florida.
Saving the historic Ella Jordan home
- July 31, 2015
- / Mike Ensley
- / community-dashboard
Ella L. Jordan was a Pensacola trailblazer who sought to improve her community at a time when both African-Americans and women faced wide gaps in civil rights and opportunity. Now locals want to save her home.
XTERRA triathlon comes to Blackwater State Forest
- July 31, 2015
- / staff reports
- / community-dashboard
The Blackwater River State Forest will host XTERRA, the global sport of off-road triathlon that has been contested world-wide for more than 20 years, this weekend.
Space Florida project creeps along at Tech Park
- July 31, 2015
- / Carlton Proctor
- / economy
Four years ago this week the much ballyhooed Pensacola Technology Campus opened for business at the corner of Ninth Avenue and Gregory Street.
Are we there yet? A dashboard can help show the way
- July 31, 2015
- / Reggie Dogan
- / education
To make the dashboard more helpful, relevant and user-friendly, the Studer Community Institute is in the process of updating and improving our dashboard.
Clarity needed for Maritime Park leasing
- July 31, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / community-dashboard
City officials say a template lease, clear process is needed for Maritime Park property. Such clarity could help avoid issues that doomed Studer leases.
Farmers markets seeing bigger share of SNAP dollars
- July 30, 2015
- / Louis Cooper
- / community-dashboard
Palafox Market in downtown Pensacola among those seeing benefits of national trend in increasing use of SNAP at farmers markets.
Big Brothers finds 135 men to answer mentoring call
- July 30, 2015
- / staff reports
- / community-dashboard
From April 17 through July 26, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Florida recruited 135 male mentors to volunteer in the lives of local boys.
Escambia 4-H Center earns green rating
- July 30, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / community-dashboard
The new Escambia County 4-H Center, located at 3730 Stefani Road in Cantonment, received a Three Green Globes certificate in green building in early July.