St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church is encouraging people to bring clean glass to be recycled on Wednesday, June 22. The glass will be processed and recycled into glass mulch for the church to…
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UWF Historic Trust to host 26th Annual Historic Pensacola Open House on June 4
The University of West Florida Historic Trust invites the community to Historic Pensacola’s 26th Annual Open House on Saturday, June 4, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. All venues and events are…
Warren Averett brings Hutto & Carver into the fold
Warren Averett, LLC, Certified Public Accountants and Advisors, announced this morning that CPA firm, Hutto & Carver, P.A., will join its Pensacola office. The joining of forces, effective June 1, 2016, offers…
Pensacola mayor defends his firing of chiefs in a memo
Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward challenged in a memo to the City Council, dated Saturday, May 28, statements made about his investigation and termination of Fire Chief Matt Schmitt and Deputy Fire Chief…
ECAT seeks public input
Escambia County, in coordination with Escambia County Area Transit (ECAT), has launched a major update to the County’s 10-year Transit Development Plan (TDP), which is named the Connections 2026: Moving Escambia Forward….
Backroom Briefing: Rubio says he is out…for real
(Weekly political notes from The News Service of Florida) By BRANDON LARRABEE AND JIM TURNER THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA What U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio might do next has been the subject…
Penascola Speaks: UWF SGA president, Studer office building
On “Pensacola Speaks,” I will open the show with Jacob Hebert, UWF student body president, who was recently elected chair of the Florida Students Association. In the second half, I will discuss…
WSRE documentary on those who lost fathers during Vietnam War, airs June 19
Some 20,000 American boys and girls lost their fathers during the Vietnam War. In a new documentary film produced by WSRE, several of these Gold Star children, now adult men and women,…
Studers set to construct another office building, est. cost $14.3 million
The Pensacola News Journal reports that Quint and Rishy Studer are building another office building in downtown Pensacola. They are submitting designs to the city’s Architectural Review Board today for a 57,000…
Florida Supreme Court ready to wade into major cases
By JIM SAUNDERS THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA For legal junkies, the Florida Supreme Court will be the best show in town during a three-day period in June. Justices are poised to…
City Hall changes job description of Pensacola Fire Chief before investigation completed
Inweekly has discovered the job description for the Pensacola Fire Chief was changed on March 14, six weeks before Beggs & Lane attorney Russell Van Sickle completed his investigation of Fire Chief…
Podcast: Robinson on ‘Leave No Trace Behind’
Commissioner Grover Robinson says the “Leave Trace Behind†ordinance that the Escambia Board of County Commissioners passed last year was created as a turtle protection ordinance, not for clean up after events…
Pensacola Speaks: David Jolly, Steve Specht
My first guest will be Congressman David Jolly, who will discuss how the VA has wrongly declared over 4,200 veterans dead since 2012. In the second half, I will talk with Democratic…
Pensacola Little Theatre announces 2016-2017 season
Pensacola Little Theatre has announced its 80th season and will feature 11 performances that cover a range of stories, from cult classics and Broadway blockbusters, to literary and holiday favorites. Since 1936,…
NFL players to play Gulf Coast Celebrity Classic and raise awareness and funds for ALS, May 28
The first annual Gulf Coast Celebrity Golf Classic, hosted by Gulf Coast Aerospace Partners, will be held on Saturday, May 28 with a shotgun start at noon, dinner, prizes and a program…
VA has wrongly declared more than 4,200 veterans dead between 2011-15
The Department of Veterans Affairs has acknowledged to U.S. Rep. David Jolly (FL-13) that it wrongly declared more than 4,200 people dead between 2011 and 2015, disrupting benefits to veterans and dependents….
ECAT offers free Beach Trolley for the Summer
Escambia County Area Transit (ECAT) representatives announced the system’s Beach Trolley service will launch on Friday, May 27. Beach trolley service is free and runs Memorial Day Weekend through Labor Day Weekend….
Bare says May 26 Special Meeting is still on
Pensacola City Council President Charles Bare says the May 26 Special Council Meeting will take place as planned, despite pressure from Mayor Ashton Hayward and his chief financial officer to cancel the…
Fans pick logo for Bubba Watson’s candy store
After a three-week voting period, the logo for Bubba’s Sweet Spot has been picked by the Pensacola community. The community was able to cast votes at The Bodacious Family of Shops and…
UWF student body president elected chair of the Florida Student Association
The Florida Student Association, a board made up of the 12 Student Body Presidents from Florida’s state universities, met on Saturday, May 21, 2016 to elect a chair for the 2016-2017 academic…