Category: News
Santa Rosa picks up 649 new students, Escambia only 167
According to the Florida Department of Education, the Escambia County School District is lagging beyond neighboring Santa County in its growth in enrollment. Escambia…
More psych beds needed
AHCA has published the need for adult, children and adolescent psychiatric beds as well as adult substance abuse beds for July 2025. The agency says…
Update: City of Pensacola cyberattack
Press release: The City of Pensacola’s computer network suffered a cyberattack during the early morning hours of Dec. 7, 2019. The city took immediate steps…
Blue Wahoos honor heroes of NAS shooting
The Pensacola Blue Wahoos will take the field in 2020 with their city over their hearts. The team announced on Thursday that the Blue Wahoos…
New Pleasant Grove school moves forward
The new Pleasant Grove elementary school just took another step toward reality and Escambia County Commissioner Doug Underhill is, in the words of Escambia County…
Escambia District 3 picked up most voters since May 2019
Escambia County  added 4,046 from May 31, 2019 to Dec. 31, 2019.  The most voters were added to Commissioner Lumon May’s District 3, 1,025…
Gulf Breeze Zoo wins national conservation award
In January 2019, the Gulf Breeze Zoo added a family of Orangutans and started their “Spirit of Sumatra†conservation program. Recently, the Zoo received high…
Recreational pot proposal shelved for 2020
By Jim Saunders TALLAHASSEE — Pointing to a “narrow timeframe†for meeting petition-signature requirements, backers of a proposed constitutional amendment to allow recreational marijuana use…
Pensacola High lost 139 freshman over four years, 30.7 percent
Pensacola High lost 30.7% of its 2015-16 freshman class when it calculated its 2018-19 graduation cohort. The district reported 91.2% graduation rate for PHS for…
Presser notes: Lovoy love
This week, city council will decide whether or not to approve Mayor Robinson’s selection of Amy Lovoy as the city’s finance director. Lovoy came to…
Highlights: State of the State
In his State of the State address today, Governor Ron DeSantis encouraged lawmakers to recognize that people are more mobile and will move out of…
Presser notes: Possible Paddle Battle
Pensacola is currently seeking to establish a regional paddle trail in local waterways, complete with a designation from the Florida Paddling Trails Association as a…
Presser notes: $17 million question
Last summer, the Pensacola City Council decided to refinance $40 million of debt associated with the Community Maritime Park and then borrow $17.7 million to…
Presser notes: Mayor discusses Cervantes shootout
Advice to shooters: “This is going to end badly for you, one way of the other.” Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson said Monday that he was…
Robinson, Gilley next speakers for CivicCon
The 2020 CivicCon Speaker Series will feature topics like water quality, housing strategies, creating a plan for trees and green scape in a community and…
Chappie James Museum fundraiser
The Chappie James Museum is hosting its annual General Daniel “Chappie†James Fundraiser event in February. This year’s event marks the celebration of what would…
Andrade raises $16,500, Hill $9,630, Salzman $1,232
State lawmakers rake in contributions the weeks leading into the legislative session. They aren’t allowed to accept campaign contributions while the session is convened. December…
Escambia County’s Class of 2019 lost 20 percent its freshman-year class.
The Escambia County School District lost 680 students from its 2015-16 freshman class when it came time to calculate the Class of 2019 graduation cohort…
Graduation rates improve, Escambia still trails surrounding counties
Governor Ron DeSantis yesterday announced that Florida’s 2018-19 graduation rate increased to 86.9 percent, an increase of 0.8 percentage points over last year and a…
Breaking news: Eddins won’t seek re-election
State Attorney Bill Eddins called Inweekly to say that he has told his staff that he won’t run for another term. His chief assistant state…
