CHERYL ERICKSON – The Corsair I was really hoping to write a positive follow-up to retort my last, rather opinionated, column on the BP claims process. Although the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) has made some very positive progress, I still find myself saying it’s too little, too late for many affected. The GCCF along...
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Pensacola Celebrates its 51st Greek Festival
Dustin Toney – The Corsair Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church held its 51st Annual Greek Festival of Pensacola October 15th-17th at its Downtown location. Each year a portion of the proceeds are donated to a local charity and the remaining funds go to help the church with future improvement projects. This year the money went to...
Is it heritage, or hate?
"The fact is this hate symbol flew over a group of states that wanted to preserve slavery and break away from the nation."
Pensacola State students to participate in Extreme Makeover Home Edition
Several students in Pensacola State College’s Carpentry and HVAC programs will be assisting in the five-day build of a house for the popular ABC show Extreme Makeover Home Edition from Oct 12 to Oct 24.
Pensacola State recieves $8.5 million grant for health care education
Staff – The Corsair Pensacola State College has been awarded a federal grant to the sum of $8.5 million which will help eligible individuals with training and supportive services while enrolled in nursing or other healthcare programs. It will be distributed in yearly installments of about $1.6 to $1.7 million a year over the next five years....
Party Like It’s 10/10/10
Matt Leight- The Corsair Cheers to the “Power of Ten”! For it will be on October 10th, 2010 that fans of the number ten will unite. A similar numerical pattern has occurred for the past 9 years and will again for the next two. There was 01/01/01, 02/02/02, etc., and this phenomenon will continue to...
CANstruction kicks off Gallery Night
Dustin Toney-The Corsair The Institute of Architects-Northwest Florida and Society of Design Administration’s 3rd Annual American CANstruction was considered a success. A competition between engineering, architecture and interior design firms from around the area, CANstruction left six statues, made entirely from packaged food to be donated to MANNA Food Pantries for distribution in Escambia and Santa...
‘Spice”: pefectly legal
Nicholas Alford – The Corsair It goes by many names: Bay Breeze, 420, Headhunter or the most common name, Spice or K2 Spice. It comes in several different “flavors” like vanilla, pineapple or strawberry, and depending on where you buy it, whether it be at a head shop, gas station or liquor store, looks mostly...
Naval Aviation Museum resurrects Helldiver
Brianna Edler-The Corsair 1944 Bomber resurrected from the dead in California on August 20th, and will be displayed at the Pensacola Naval Museum. A WWII Navy aircraft was raised from the waters of the Lower Otay Reservoir near Chula Vista California. The SB2C-4 Helldiver was disassembled after being recovered, sent across the country to N.A.S....
Effects of dispersants still unknown
Nick Alford-The Corsair Nearly three months after the leaking well head that released an estimated 4.9 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico was finally capped, the EPA and BP have issued statements telling the public that the oil spill has been cleaned up and that no more crude can be found...