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The 2022 CivicCon Awards celebration Monday will recognize 19 people and organizations who made our community more vibrant, equitable and lovable.

The Belmont-DeVilliers Neighborhood Association wants to preserve the community’s cultural heritage, while also embracing its evolution. This weekend, they’re hosting an inaugural festival that celebrates the historic African-American neighborhood.

The Belmont-DeVilliers will hold a festival to honor and remember the past and present of the historic Black neighborhoods cultural significance.

“You need to know your history. You need to know world history, but you dont need to know world history and leave your history out.”

Florida Trust for Historic Preservation announced Smiths Bakery in Belmont-Devilliers as this year’s 11 to Save most endangered historic places.

The first resident on of an 1890 home on Government Street was a black laundress and those who restored the home want to know more about her.

April 27, 2021 The West Florida Public Libraries (WFPL) Board of Governance held a meeting in Century Monday afternoon in apparent violation of Florida’s Sunshine Laws. The meeting was held at the Century Branch Library beginning after 4 p.m. Two legal notices for the meeting, published by Escambia County April 17 and April 24 in the Pensacola News Journal, stated the meeting would be held at 4 p.m. on April 26 at 239 North Spring Street — the address of the Main Library downtown. The meeti...