Category: News
Pensacola sailors return home from USNS Comfort
Naval Medicine Readiness and Training Command Pensacola sent 18 sailors to support the Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort’s COVID-19 relief efforts in New York. After…
Wednesday morning shot
Best Pivot of the Week – Bubba Watson’s Diamond Disc Golf Challenge The Pensacola Blue Wahoos and team co-owner Bubba Watson have partnered to bring…
Better guidelines for restaurants
Reopening Escarosa Guide produced by the Pensacola and Santa Rosa chambers had a rather generic page concerning restaurants that was put together by working group…
Pensacola Community COVID-19 Response
A video produced by Volume ONE Salon and Lensea Film:
COVID-19 and the Workforce in Escambia County
In an Inweekly/Political Matrix poll of 719 Escambia County residents, we found 26.4% had either lost their jobs, been furloughed or had their hours cut…
Reopening Escarosa guide released
In an effort to provide the public in Northwest Florida concise and accurate information related to COVID-19 business resources, a consortium of Escambia and Santa…
Mandatory testing and guidelines
Mandatory LTC testing Jim Saunders of The News Service of Florida reports state Agency for Health Care Administration yesterday issued emergency orders to require nursing homes…
COVID-19: Sunday update
DOH Escambia entered new 154 test results into the system, 2.6% were positive – bringing overall positive percentage down to 6%. The county only had…
COVID: Saturday Haircut Edition
Four Escambia County long-term care facilities have had deaths associated with COVID-19, according to a FDOH report released late Friday. The LTC deaths account for…
Update on Five Mile Swamp Fire
Five Mile Swamp Fire Re-Entry: Previously Closed Evacuation Zone Now Open to Residents Only (See larger map: https://www.santarosa.fl.gov/…/Five-Mile-Swamp-Fire-Re-Entr…) Open to residents only: Everything on Garcon…
Business Updates
Reopening Florida Business Survey As business in Florida reopens, FloridaWest is working with our ESF-18 partners at The Greater Pensacola Chamber of Commerce and Visit…
Figuring out the new normal for hospitality and tourism
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly As Florida businesses begin to reopen and reassess how best to proceed in light of the current COVID-19 pandemic, members of…
2UWF expands
The University of West Florida announces a significant expansion of its 2UWF program, adding Santa Fe College, Valencia College and Broward College as new partner…
Councilman ‘unloads’ on news publisher
Century council member James Smith lashed out at NorthEscambia.com publisher William Reynolds, accusing him of being “racist†and “biased†and suggesting the “lackluster†NorthEscambia.com should…
Considering Supply Chains
by Jeremy Morrison The University of West Florida Center for Supply Chain Management Excellence hosted its second in a series of discussions Wednesday focusing on…
Judge signals he will pave way for felon voting
By Dara Kam, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — A federal judge said Wednesday he intends to lay out a process for the state…
Florida introduces mobile testing unit for nursing homes
At his press conference in Sarasota yesterday, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a new mobile testing lab—“an RV outfitted with a lab insideâ€â€”that will perform the…
COVID-19: Tuesday noon report
Escambia County had another COVID-19 related death, the third in less than a week. Â Total COVID deaths: 14 DOH Escambia entered 371 new test results…
Restaurants add outdoor seating as ED visits increase
Area restaurants have adapted to COVID-19 Phase One – adding outdoor seating and modifying dine-in table arrangements. Some are taking the guidelines, while others wait…
Baptist issues new visitation rules
VISITATION DURING COVID AT BAPTIST HEALTH CARE HOSPITALS Baptist Hospital and Gulf Breeze Hospital Only One visitor at a time will be allowed to visit…
