NAS Pensacola will open to the public this weekend, April 22 and 23 from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. through the West Gate only on Blue Angel Parkway. All U.S. citizens or…
Category: Escambia County
District 4 Town Hall on April 20
Escambia County District 4 Commissioner Robert Bender will host a town hall meeting Thursday, April 20, at 5:30 p.m. at the District 4 Community Center, 8800 N. 9th Ave. Residents are invited…
Coffee with the Commissioner on April 12
Join District 1 Commissioner Jeff Bergosh at his virtual 82nd Coffee with the Commissioner event Wednesday, April 12. This month, Commissioner Bergosh will stream Coffee with the Commissioner live at 7 a.m. from…
Home Buyout Grants
Escambia County will hold two public meetings to discuss the county’s participation in the Hurricane Sally Voluntary Home Buyout Grants process. The meetings will be held April 12 at 3 p.m. and…
Sixteen years ago, Sheriff tried to clean up Brownsville
In 2007 after a shooting at a convenience store on West Cervantes, there was a public outcry to deal with crime in the Brownsville neighborhood. A 30-day joint initiative between Escambia County…
Sheriff launches Operation Brownsville (not Good Neighbor, oops)
By Tom St. Myer Gun violence dominated the public forum discussion, but measures put in place to improve Brownsville as a whole took center stage during the Escambia County gun violence roundtable…
Third Gun Violence Roundtable
Escambia County Gun Violence Round Table on April 4 The public is invited to attend the Escambia County Gun Violence Round Table hosted by Sheriff Chip Simmons on Tuesday, April 4, at…
Real News: Beulah, Soul Royals
Escambia County Commissioner Jeff Bergosh discusses his expectations for the Beulah Master Plan. The Soul Royals – one of the more popular musical groups in the Pensacola during the height of the…
Bye, ERIC
On Monday, the Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd announced that Florida’s ending its involvement in Eric, which is the Electronic Registration Information Center, a multi-state exchange of voter registration data. Here…
UWF Students join statewide walkout
Protest DeSantis Education Moves by Jeremy Morrison On Thursday, students at the University of West Florida joined with thousands of other students on high school and college campuses across the state in…
Pillow talk about Christian Nationalism
By Jeremy Morrison MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell — a Trump-era caricature growing even more cartoonish in hindsight — has largely been relegated to the political fringe. Even as a panelist on the…
ECT: A failure to connect
The Escambia Children’s Trust’s executive director, Tammy Greer, appeared before the school board on Monday and responded to criticism that the ECT only awarded two out-of-school time grants to agencies in north…