Category: Escambia County
Poll: Voters want jobs at OLF-8
Escambia votes overwhelmingly want  high-paying jobs at Outlying Landing Filed (OLF-8), the 500-plus acre site next to Navy Federal’s campus in Beulah, according to recent…
Developer offers $16M to implement Village or Market plans for OLF-8
Hemmer Consulting LLC and 68 Ventures LLC made an offer to buy 400 acres of OLF-8 for $16 million, leaving only 80 acres for commerce…
Oops, one more Triumph fact overlooked by DPZ Codesign
The firm hired by the county commission to develop a master plan for OLF-8 has tried to downplay the importance of Triumph funds to its…
Busting DPZ Codesign myths
Yesterday, DPZ Codesign published its set of “facts” about its work for the Escambia County Commission on a master plan for OLF-8, a 500+ acre…
Is Gilley a ‘professional confidential informant’? UPDATE
FDLE spokesperson Gretl Plessinger  answered the question : ‘“Professional Confidential Informant’ is not a formal term. The informant was Keith Morris, the Escambia County Compliance…
Missing DPZ Codesign facts
DPZ Codesign, the firm hired by the Escambia Board of County Commissioners, has published its facts about the OLF-8 site for which is designing a…
County contractor lobbies for its proposed plan
In an unusual move, the master planning firm hired by the Escambia Board of County Commissioners has begun to lobby residents for its plans for…
FDLE releases report on eavesdropping of county offices
Inweekly received the investigative report on the  bugging of a conference room adjacent to Escambia County Administrator Janice Gilley’s office in the Ernie Lee Magaha…
Living the Dream Pensacola goes virtual today
Despite a raging pandemic, a difficult hurricane recovery, and simmering political unrest, the Living the Dream Pensacola committee announced this week that the decade-long tradition…
Buzz: DeSantis cuts vaccines for Escambia – update
Sources have told Inweekly that Gov. Ron DeSantis has cut the next week’s vaccine shipment for Escambia County from 8,000 to 800. Update – Monday,…
Grover’s Midweek Q&A: COVID, the bridge & the homeless
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson addressed a collection of items Wednesday during his Facebook Live Q&A session, among them the ongoing repairs…
West Cervantes work to begin
The Florida Department of Transportation will begin a $7 million construction project this month to improve pedestrian safety along a 2.2-mile section of West Cervantes…
What Sheriff Simmons said at swearing in ceremony
On Tuesday, Jan. 5, Judge Nick Geeker swore in Chips Simmons as the new sheriff of Escambia County in a small ceremony at the Escambia…
County didn’t run out of CARES dollars for families
News Journal reporter Annie Blanks today told the story of Rebecca Swindle, 59-year-old grandmother who had her electricity cut off while waiting for a $3,000…
NorthEscambia confirms our report
This morning, NorthEscambia.com confirmed Inweekly’s report that Pensacola Police Chief Tommi Lyter will be newly-elected Sheriff Chip Simmons chief deputy, effective Jan. 5. “We continue…
Escambia County government took most of CARES dollars
Escambia County received $57.6 from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. About 60 cents of every dollar will be spent on county…
Public safety director resigns
Escambia County Administrator Janice Gilley has lost a senior leader that she bragged to the commissioners was her best hire in her 18-month tenure –…
Commissioner May supports Mayor’s home-rule request
At this morning’s Committee of the Whole,Commissioner Lumon May said he supports Mayor Grover Robinson’s initiative that giving local governments control over how they deal…
Community split on OLF-8 design proposals
The debate of what to do with the 500-plus acre site known as OLF-8 (former Navy helicopter training site – Outlying Field Site Eight) has…
A BCC Bug’s Life
The eavesdropping device found by FDLE in the offices of Escambia County Administrator Janice Gilley in the Ernie Lee Magaha Government Building may have been hidden…
