Ensley News

The Salvation Army in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties is seeking people to adopt a child or a family.

The Christmas tree lots started going up the last week of October. The malls and radios stations started playing Christmas music two Sundays ago.

People often ask how I decide what to write about week after week. Sometimes it's easy, like this week, when I saw the movie "Precious" and was compelled to write about it.

The Emerald Coast Utilities Authority has lifted a precautionary boil water notice for customers living near a recent main water break.

Tallahassee's most historic site reaches another milestone Dec. 13 when Mission San Luis opens its new visitor center.

Here's something you can warm up to. Energy Services of Pensacola customers can expect to see their natural gas rates drop as much as 10 percent this winter.

After the glowing re sponse to last year's inaugu ral Jackson Hospital Foun dation fundraiser, more than 250 guests arrived to ex perience "Midtown Gets Down, Again" at the A&P Lofts and Courtyard in Clo verdale.

The saying is there are three things you need to be happy: Something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

Leonard Ciampini and William Renfroe got tired of seeing heavy trucks cut through their otherwise quiet Ensley neighborhood.

Some day it may be a movie. For now, it's a small book. But a light is finally being shone on Alpha Omega Campbell, a beloved black Tallahassee doctor whose career and life were ruined in 1956 when he was sent to prison for performing illegal abortions.

Escambia County officials say there are several roads with standing water. The roads include: -- Parts of Johnson Avenue is reduced to one lane.

Last Friday, the 38th day of the autumn 40 Days for Life Campaign, the abortion facility at 6700 North 9th Avenue in Pensacola, Florida posted a 'Closed' sign on its door as pro-lifers prayed and kept vigil outside.

A place that's been at the center of the abortion debate for years in Pensacola is shutting down.

As Florida State alums pile out of town after Homecoming, it's worth noting this is the 40th anniversary year of the great Westcott Hall fire.

Inside the one-story concrete block building are picnic tables and wood paneling: A restaurant reviewer once described the look as a 'Korean War field kitchen-turned-juke joint.' And some might argue that it's not the best barbecue in Tallahassee.

Five students received minor burns in a lab explosion at a central Florida high school which authorities say was alcohol-related. The Seminole County Fire Department said the explosion happened Tuesday morning in a chemistry lab at Paul J. Hagerty High School in Oviedo.

Jeff Hunter remembers that breezy, blue Saturday morning when the St. Marks Trail was opened into the heart of Tallahassee.

Why don't we just cut to the chase on this economic recession and start a World War? That worked 60 years ago.

Bobby wants another season and I want a pony. Green Living Expo is being held on acres of asphalt.

All that's left of Dale Mabry Field air base is an ammo storage unit. That's the stout brick building on the northeast corner of Jackson Bluff Road and Mabry Street.