According to the Florida Department of Education, the Escambia County School District is lagging beyond neighboring Santa County in its growth in enrollment. Escambia County has only 167 more students that…
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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 there’s a need for 24 new adult…
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 to limit the damage sought to be…
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 will wear “We Have The Watch-NAS Pensacola 
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 School Board Member Kevin Adams, “mad as…
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 voters, followed by Commissioner Jeff Bergosh’s District…
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 honors from the Zoological Association of America…
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 in Florida said Monday the measure will…
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 the year. However, it lost 55 white…
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 the city last year after a long…
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 states with high taxes and too many…
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 Blueway Community. Included on the potential trail…
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 fund project in the downtown CRA. The…
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 “disappointed in the Jan. 10 incident in…
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 how to measure a return on public…
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 be the four-star general’s 100th birthday. “We’re…
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 2019 was no exception. District 2 State…
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 –a 20.2% decline. This happened despite the…
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 jump of 27.7 percentage points since 2003-04….
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 attorney, Greg Marcille, has told him that…