On January 28, the Montford Middle School girls soccer team exhibited their skills and teamwork by winning against Ft. Braden (8-0) at James Messer Park. This is the second consecutive game that the Montford mustangs have won, beating Nims last week (4-0). Even to the end of the game, players continued to exhibit great teamwork, […]
FSU Football At the end of signing day FSU sits at 15/16/19 in the rivals/247sports/espn recruiting rankings. The Seminoles closed out the signing period with 5 more commitments. Those commitments are OL Ira Henry, K Ryan Fitzgerald, DB Travis Jay, OL Darius Washington and DL Quashon Fuller. Four-star safety Nick Cross has yet to sign […]
In the first meeting in city hall since four new members joined the Tallahassee City Commission, three of those officials voted to delay a move forward with a $60 million Public Safety Complex. Despite some community concerns, the Public Safety Complex was on the fast track due to the votes of a city commission that […]
Tallahassee, FL – The Tallahassee Economic Index (TEI) released numbers ending November 2018. Following a 1.06 point slide in October, the Index fell .75 points from 36.96 to 36.21 in November. “The Index fell for the third month in a row in November. The local economy just can’t seem to get any meaningful traction. Business […]
On Saturday January 26th, Roberts Elementary hosted The Trent 10K, 5K, & 1M. The Trent, previously named The Trent Trot, is a fundraiser that has been taking place at Roberts for 10 years. The Trent is a run to honor the life and memory of Trent McElroy, a Roberts elementary student who lost his battle […]
By Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Four years after lawmakers started a controversial teacher-bonus program, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday he wants to scrap the “Best and Brightest” program and plow nearly $423 million into a new effort to reward teachers and principals. The Best and Brightest program has faced opposition, […]
By Dara Kam, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — In the first major demonstration of an ideological shift on the revamped Florida Supreme Court, justices Tuesday refused to consider an appeal in a Miami Beach minimum-wage lawsuit that a former liberal-leaning majority of the court had scheduled to hear next month. The move by […]
By Amy Farnum-Patronis, FSU News Florida State University accepted another excellent class of students after receiving a record number of applicants for the second consecutive year. Florida State received nearly 57,000 first-year applications for admission to the 2019 summer and fall semesters before early notifications on Jan. 31. That’s already an 11.9 percent increase over […]
By Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday touted a proposal to spend an additional $18.8 million next year on a program that provides voucher-like scholarships to students with disabilities, saying he trusts “parents to make the best decision” for the education of their children. DeSantis appeared at […]
When everything falls away, there will be little left but the memory of who we were, and the good and the bad we left behind. It will not be the number of followers we had on Facebook or the cool picture we posted on Twitter or Snapchat. It will not be our social media profile […]