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Good morning Pensacola! Your connection to what's happening around town is here. Take a sip of coffee and read on. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • What's really changing in the controversial OLF-8 master plan?
  • Pensacola community remembers the life and legacy of Roberta Anderson
  • How Pensacola schools are drawing the line on classroom AI use

Also on today's calendar: Free Bra Fittings to Support Breast Cancer Awareness (Sep 18-19) and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: Why are elevator jokes so good ? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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📰 News we're reading

1. OLF-8 Item Adresses Design Code. Developers Address Master Plan Instead City of Pensacola (opgov.news) — Escambia County's planning board meeting on the OLF-8 site turned contentious when developers used a design-code agenda item to pitch a new master plan, raising concerns from Pensacola-area residents about warehouses, building heights, and who maintains roads and parks. Citizens argued the existing community-crafted plan only needs minor fixes and criticized the lack of clear notice or comparison documents before a public hearing expected in early October.
   

2. Roberta Anderson 1950-2026 (vicksburgnews.com) — Family and friends in Pensacola are mourning 75-year-old Roberta Anderson, who passed away on August 21 after a long career in nursing and operating-room care. Remembered for her quiet strength and devotion to church and family, she leaves children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and many loved ones who will carry on her legacy of kindness and service.
   

3. Northwest Florida schools, universities share how AI is used responsibly in classrooms (weartv.com) — Pensacola's University of West Florida and nearby school districts are outlining how students can use artificial intelligence responsibly, stressing that humans must stay in control of the learning process. Local educators describe academic integrity rules, course-level guidelines, and new AI literacy efforts as they respond to national debates like New York City's recent school restrictions.
   

4. Florida beach paradise vacation rental crackdown (latination.com) — Pensacola Beach officials are weighing tougher rules on short-term vacation rentals, including possible mandatory registration and 24-hour property managers, after complaints about noise, trash, parking and overcrowding. At the same time, Pensacola's growing national profile as an award-winning beach destination and its packed festival calendar, including Mural Fest and Foo Foo Festival, continue drawing hundreds of thousands of visitors to the area.
   

5. Heroic boat captain jumps in to save diver being savaged by shark: 'Not bleeding out on my watch' (nypost.com) — A diver attacked by a bull shark about 30 miles off Florida's Emerald Coast is now recovering at a Pensacola hospital, thanks to the fast actions of his boat captain and fellow divers. They pulled him aboard, used makeshift tourniquets and wound powder to slow heavy bleeding from both arms, and kept him calm until the Coast Guard could rush him to shore for surgery.
   

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  • I've started appreciating unplanned days a lot more.
    There was a time when I wanted everything organized. I wanted to know where I was going, what I was doing, and what time everything was supposed to… (Nextdoor Heritage Lakes)
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    We are fostering them and they are sooooo good! Heath (tan and white) is a 13 week old male, Licorice (black) is a 15 week old male and Arlo (white… (Nextdoor Deuna Park)
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Because they work on so many levels ! (Thank you Gary M. for sending it in!)
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