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Gilley Games and SDS

Gilley Games On Tuesday, June 23, the Florida Department of Health reported Escambia County had 42 new COVID-19 cases with 8.3% positivity rate and Santa…

Breaking news: Tate High to no longer use Confederate flag on programs

A parent notified Inweekly that the school’s principal called and said they would discontinue the ‘five flags’ Confederate logo immediately, using a ‘T’ temporarily.

Escambia blows past daily COVID record

Escambia County has 92 new COVID cases, surpassing the record set yesterday of 68. Of the new cases, 81 were Florida residents, two were tied…

Tate High named for Confederate veteran

Why would the Tate High principal use a logo with a Confederate flag? Its namesake was a Civil War veteran who would tell his students…

Greater Pensacola Chamber moves office to post office box

Greater Pensacola Chamber, which was founded in 1889, no longer has a brick-and-mortar office, at least temporarily. When it returns, the office will only have…

Confederate flag has resurgence in Panhandle

Walmart and NASCAR have banned the Confederate flag. The former Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward and the Escambia County Commission replaced the Confederate flag in the…

Escambia County keeps people in the dark on COVID

How safe are Pensacola Beach, downtown Pensacola, Cordova Mall and other parts of Escambia County? Transparency hasn’t been a priority for Escambia County Administrator Janice…

Poll: Voters like new monuments

In a recent poll by The Political Matrix of 848 Escambia County residents, we found that 55.7% would like a monument commission implemented to look…

Florida travelers to be quarantined by NY – update

New York, New Jersey and Connecticut issued a travel advisory that requires people arriving from states with high coronavirus rates, such as Florida, to quarantine…

Bar owner says he’s a ‘scapegoat’

The owner of the Knightâ€™s Pub in Orlando contends that his bar is being used as a â€œscapegoatâ€ after the state suspended its alcoholic beverage…

Peek at Inweekly June 25 issue

We will start delivering this issue to news stands late this afternoon:

One out of three kids inside the city of Pensacola lives in poverty

NorthEscambia.com yesterday published an article that showed the zip codes north of I-10 have a wide range of poverty levels, from the lowest in the…

Masks to be required when UWF reopens

The Florida Board of Governors approved the University of West Floridaâ€™s Fall 2020 Reopening Plan during its meeting on Tuesday, June 23. The plan was…

Don Gaetz appointed to Florida Ethics Commission

Florida Senate President Bill Galvano (R-Bradenton) today announced the appointment of former Senate President (2012-2014) Don Gaetz to the Florida Commission on Ethics. President Gaetz…

Poll: City voters split on monument removal, County voters want it to stay

According to a recent poll conducted by The Political Matrix, city of Pensacola voters are divided on whether the Confederate monument in the city’s Lee…

Meals on Wheels volunteers needed

In the past two weeks, Council on Aging of West Florida has enrolled more than 300 people in its pandemic-related Meals on Wheels expanded program….

Presser Notes: Masks, Citizens Committee, and the Monument

The Pensacola City Council will discuss next month the fate of the Confederate monument on South Palafox in Lee Square (which the mayor has suggested…

Members of Police Oversight Committee named

Following the July 5 police shooting of Tymar Crawford, a black man who was pulled over by local police officers, community organization Pensacola Dream Defenders…