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Earlier this week, the Florida Historical Marker Council approved 15 markers honoring women who have made contributions throughout the state’s history. Two of the markers celebrate women who were born in the Panhandle.
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Fort Walton Beach’s Billy Bowlegs Pirate Festival began as a 1950s tourism event and grew into a 70-year tradition. Historian Mike Thomin says its pirate namesake blends treasure lore, civic pageantry and the story of a real Gulf Coast adventurer. -
“The Paper Bear” is a film shot in Northwest Florida with the mission to highlight the area's biodiversity. It is now available to watch on Amazon Prime and Apple TV. -
Free and low-cost mammograms will be available on Wednesday, May 20 to eligible women, who are residents of Florida, at least 40 years old, have little or no insurance, and meet income guidelines. The 3D Mobile Mammography bus will be at Health and Hope Clinic in Escambia County from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. -
Florida’s increasingly crowded waterways had 694 “reportable” boating accidents in 2025, up from 685 in 2024 and 659 in 2023, according to a state report released Monday. -
Resource fair and mobile market hope to connect residents with critical assistance in Pensacola -
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An effort to stop a high-density D.R. Horton -
Residents say the process surrounding the selection of the library director damaged confidence in local government. -
The University of West Florida has been working to complete the restoration of 100-year-old vernacular, or hand constructed, burial markers at Magnolia Cemetery in Pensacola.
