The main branch of the West Florida Public Library system, located at 200 W. Gregory St., will be closed from Dec. 15 until Jan. 7, 2013. The closure comes on the tail-end…
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Locals AppRiver and Allan Bell name top innovators for 2012 by Gov. Scott
Press Release: The winners of the 2012 Governor’s Innovators in Business Awards were announced today by Governor Rick Scott. The winners will be honored this evening during a reception at the Governor’s…
Past due receivables at the Port of Pensacola continue to grow
As of November 30, the Port of Pensacola had accounts receivable totaling $506,393–with $109,935.04 that’s over 120 days and due from NWF Cold Storage. The frozen chicken exporter owes a total of…
Council’s 1st COW
The Pensacola City Council will hold its first meeting today since seating four new members. It’s a full agenda, with topics including the new library tax, the Gulf Breeze-Pensacola natural gas dispute…
District 5 Town Hall
The next town-hall meeting in Mayor Ashton Hayward’s ‘Taking City Hall to the Citizens’ series will take place next week in District 5. It is the final such gathering for the year….
Volunteers Needed for Homeless Services
Press Release: In conjunction with the annual Point in Time Count we will be holding a U-Count Day of Homeless Services at 2601 W. Strong St. This will be a day the…
A Building Named Ernie Lee
The Escambia County downtown complex was renamed yesterday. It is now the Ernie Lee Magaha Governmental Complex. During an afternoon ceremony, a crowd of about 100 people stood in front of the…
Gaetz addresses issues surrounding Transparency software
TO: All Senators FROM: Don Gaetz, President SUBJECT:Senate Contract with Spider Data Systems DATE: December 7, 2012 You may have seen a number of news reports as well as a report published…
Hayward on Downtown, MURAC
Mayor Ashton Hayward said this morning during a windblown press conference at Pensacola’s Plaza De Luna, that the city’s downtown core was vital to the entire municipalities’ overall success. “A dead downtown…
Gulf Winds opens downtown Pensacola location
Press Release: Gulf Winds Federal Credit Union is pleased to announce that a new downtown branch is officially open for business. The new convenient branch is located at 400 West Garden Street,…
Three Pensacola restaurants receive Golden Spoon awards. Two named to Hall of Fame
Global Grill, Jackson’s Steakhouse and McGuire’s Irish Pub have been awarded Golden Spoon awards by Florida Trend. Jackson’s and McGuire’s were named to the Golden Spoon Hall of Fame. All three are…
Touart’s Reception
The couple of dozen people that showed up at the Escambia County Commission’s public forum Thursday afternoon to voice their dissatisfaction at the hiring of George Touart as interim county administrator had…
Escambia’s RESTORE Rethink
Though it wasn’t on this morning’s agenda, the post-November incarnation of the Escambia County Commission–officially meeting for the first time–began discussing the “revamping” of the yet-to-be-formed RESTORE Act advisory committee. “I have…
How do our high school graduation rates rank with similar size Florida schools. Not well
By far, West Florida High has the best graduation rate of four-year high school students in Escambia County, but how do the other county high schools rank when compared to other Florida…
Overall Escambia County graduation rate ranked 60 out of 67 counties
These high school graduation rates for four-year students is done using the methodology developed by the U.S. Dept. of Education to develop a graduation rate that provided parents, educators and the public…
BTW: Florida has one of the worse high school graduation rates in the country
The U.S. Department of Education released data last week listing state four-year high school graduation rates in 2010-11—the first year for which all states used a common, rigorous measure. Prior to the…
Touart protest is not going away
Some citizens still aren’t happy about the lame duck Escambia County Commission hiring George Touart as the interim county administrator. They plan further protests. I got the following email this morning: A…
Angel of Hope Candelight Ceremony
Press Release: The Gulf Breeze Chapter of the Share Pregnancy & Infant Loss Group, a local support group for parents who are dealing with the loss of a baby, will host a…
County Considers Settlement Over Accident
Escambia County commissioners will consider this week if the county should settle with a woman who was involved in an accident with a county vehicle. In June 2011, Sharmaine Dixon was driving…
Magaha Governmental Complex
Escambia County’s downtown complex will be formally unveiled this week as the Ernie Lee Magaha Governmental Complex. A ceremony will be held Thursday at 3 p.m., prior to the public forum and…