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New $9 million health center opens in restored historic Brownsville school

Drew Buchanan — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 17:05:15 +0000

Pensacola Bay area’s non-profit health center opens new doors in historic Brownsville school after $9 million renovation project. Escambia Community Clinics, the Pensacola Bay area’s only Federally Qualified Health Center, officially unveiled its rebranding as Community Health Northwest Florida, along with celebrating the official opening of its new main patient care location at 2315 W. Jackson […]

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Pensacola Bay ferry operator to be announced by April ahead of May launch

Drew Buchanan — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 23:24:05 +0000

Gulf Islands National Seashore said today that they expect to announce the selection of an operator for the Pensacola Bay Cruises ferry service in the next 30-60 days ahead of its May launch. “At this time, no operator has been selected and a contract has not been finalized,” the National Park Service said Thursday. “Until these […]

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Naval Hospital Pensacola to shift to outpatient care, stop delivering babies

Pulse Staff — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 23:22:10 +0000

Come July, Naval Hospital Pensacola will transition to an ambulatory care model and will end obstetrics services, Navy officials announced Wednesday. Expectant mothers with a delivery date after the transition will be referred to a health care facility in the local TRICARE network, officials said. Patients will be assigned an obstetric provider by TRICARE, but […]

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Pensacola mayor reappointed to Volunteer Florida commission

Derek Cosson — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 17:41:40 +0000

Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Wednesday reappointed Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward to the Florida Commission on Community Service, better known as Volunteer Florida. Hayward was first appointed to the commission in 2015. His new term is effective Wednesday and will run through September 14, 2020. Volunteer Florida is the lead agency for volunteerism and national service in […]

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Business, political leaders celebrate grand opening of downtown Pensacola hotel

Drew Buchanan — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 12:52:41 +0000

The new Holiday Inn Express held its grand opening this week, making the 106-room hotel the new place to stay in downtown Pensacola. Developers broke ground on the more than $8 million project on Main and Jefferson streets in winter of 2015. The Tennessee-based Siddiqui Investments is running the hotel under the British hotel giant InterContinental Hotels […]

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Okaloosa GOP official says survivors of school shooting are “crisis actors”

Derek Cosson — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 02:32:33 +0000

An Okaloosa County Republican State Committeewoman is under fire after contending on social media that some of the students who survived last week’s school shooting in South Florida are “hired crisis actors.” A former student shot and killed 14 students and 3 staff members last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. In […]

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Community charrette drafts blueprints for Pensacola’s future development

Drew Buchanan — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 21:04:35 +0000

Urban planning firm DPZ is working to propose guidelines and development standards for Pensacola neighborhoods. Over the last decade, Marina Khoury has visited Pensacola on multiple trips while on assignment with one of the world’s leading urban planning firms, DPZ Partners. On each visit, she has witnessed Pensacola experience a rebirth of sorts — businesses and […]

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Northwest Florida lawmakers vote against assault weapons ban

Derek Cosson — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 15:58:45 +0000

Northwest Florida’s representatives to the Florida House each voted against holding debate on a proposed bill which would outlaw the sale of assault rifles in the state. The motion, by Rep. Kionne McGhee of Miami, would have placed HB 219 before the full House for debate. That bill — which was killed in committee earlier in […]

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52-acre mixed use development proposed for West Nine Mile

Derek Cosson — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 22:13:05 +0000

Another large residential project is being proposed in the Beulah area northwest of Pensacola, the latest in a surge of new development fueled by Navy Federal Credit Union’s massive expansion of their Heritage Oaks campus. 733 apartment units are proposed as part of a mixed use development planned for a 52-acre site at 3811 West […]

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OASIS Florida receives $50,000 for new HIV mobile testing facility

Pulse Staff — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 19:16:39 +0000

Two $25,000 grants, one from Trinity Presbyterian Church’s Legacy Fund and a second, matching grant from Red Ribbon Charitable Foundation, have provided funding for the purchase and operation of a mobile testing unit for OASIS Florida. With this new mobile testing facility, the agency plans to address the lack of easily accessible HIV testing facilities […]

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