Category: Escambia County
Regional Roundup on Saturday
The Escambia County Waste Services Department will host the next Regional Roundup on Saturday, Oct. 26 from 8 a.m. until noon at Blue Angels Elementary…
Bay Bridge traffic enforcement beefed up
A collective of law enforcement agencies will be working together over the next two years to step up traffic enforcement efforts on the new Pensacola…
Pensacola Man: Clown burglar strikes
NorthEscambia.com reports a Cantonment woman walked into her home to find a burglar wearing a clown mask and wig running toward her screaming, according the…
Nobody wants Mike Hill to sponsor their local bills
No one wants State Rep. Mike Hill to sponsor any local bills for appropriations–another sign of how ineffective the District 1 Republican is in Tallahassee….
Bye Bay Center; Hello Sports Tourism?
A project first proposed two years ago that involves constructing a sports complex and replacing the Bay Center in downtown Pensacola is back on the…
Lawmakers Town Hall: A Roomful of Asks
PENSACOLA: The collective sentiment of the Escambia County Legislative Delegation meeting Monday night was summed up nicely by Dr. Ed Meadows, president of Pensacola State…
First Amendment and elected officials’ social media
Whether elected officials can block citizens from their Facebook pages has been a top topic. In July, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously…
Underhill hit with public records, first amendment lawsuit
PENSACOLA: On the day Escambia Circuit Court Judge Stephen Pitre dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed against Escambia County Commissioner Doug Underhill, the District 2 commissioner…
Poof! ECAT special district vanishes
PENSACOLA: The Escambia County Area Transit Authority special district has been dissolved. The Escambia County Board of County Commissioner scrapped the special district overseeing mass…
ECAT melodrama: Underhill changes tune, workers speak out
The ECAT/Underhill melodrama continues. The Board of County Commissioners will consider today repealing the dependent special district.
Underhill uses special district vote to push his anti-ECAT agenda
PENSACOLA: Last night, WEAR TV made it seem that the dissolution of the Special District for ECAT would amount to the county taking control of…
Workers protest county takeover of ECAT
PENSACOLA – On the eve of the Escambia Board of County Commissioners’ Oct. 3 meeting, Escambia County Area Transit (ECAT) workers today will hold a…
Tufts University: PSC students voted at higher rate during 2018 midterm election
PENSACOLA: During the 2018 midterm election, 42 percent of Pensacola State students voted ─ compared to 39.1 percent voting rates of students from other U.S….
ECSD 2004 internal audit report questioned the sale of McReynolds school
Inweekly has reviewed a May 2004 internal audit report of the Jackie Harris Pyramid School of Learning (JHPSL)- currently called Jacqueline Harris Preparatory Academy. The…
Should FDEP cut IP a break?
PENSACOLA–Following the explosion at the International Paper mill in Cantonment in 2017, Jackie Lane began to notice something different in Perdido Bay. “It just immediately…
Buzz: Meet new ECUA director
PENSACOLA–Sources have shared that Rebecca Shelton, P.E., is on track to be the next executive director of the Emerald Coast Utilities Authority. Shelton is currently…
Summer voter registration continues to reshape Escambia, Pensacola
PENSACOLA–Escambia County registered 1,648 voters from June 1-August 30: 258 in the city of Pensacola and 1,384 in the rest of the county, according to…
Escambia County holds lighting ceremony mid-morning
GULF BREEZE–Most lighting ceremonies are held at night, or, at the earliest, dusk. Escambia County will hold its Pensacola Beach sailfish sign lighting ceremony today…
Escambia County School Board drags out superintendent selection
The Escambia County School Board’s survey is a farce, meant to drag out selection process.
Concerns raised over International Paper bond hearing omission
PENSACOLA–The exchange, hidden within the confines of a TEFRA bond hearing, was so surreally weird as to be absurd. It involved a back-and-forth with Escambia…
