Category: Pensacola

Mayor Ashton Hayward hired attorney Nix Daniel to send a notification of default to Ray Russenberger, whose company, Seville Harbour, Inc., has the master lease…

Are the Feds about to indict a local elected official? That is the rumor that has dominated county politics over the Thanksgiving weekend. The daily…

John Myslak has written a letter to the Pensacola City Council regarding the 2012 recommendation by the Mayor’s Urban Redevelopment Advisory Committee that called for…

Jewel Cannada-Wynn is the new president of the Pensacola City Council. Megan Pratt is the vice president. This is the first time two females have…

We’ve heard that the City of Pensacola has appointed Eric Olsen as its Initiatives Coordinator. One of his jobs may be to oversee a proposed…

Billy Helms, student director at East Hill Baptist Church, visited the Independent News offices to talk about his church’s decision to sell a portion on…

Pensacola’s Mud Island Eighteen months after the Vince Whibbs, Sr. Community Maritime Park opened, the city has a problem with the retention pond at the…

The Escambia County Supervisor of Elections has the October campaign finance reports for the 2014 elections on his website. Starting last month, all candidates must…

by Mark Taylor, CMPA Board member The dust has settled on the budget year 2013 (October 1, 2012 – Sept 30, 2013) and the results…

This grassroots effort continues to gain momentum. A petition has been set up on change.org and it has 686 signatures has of 7 a.m. this…

The City of Pensacola has announced that Amy Miller has been appointed as new Director of the Port of Pensacola, after Clyde Mathis resigned on…

The Pensacola City Council members have sent in their nominations. The ballot for council president has Charles Bare, Jewel Cannada-Wynn, Megan Pratt and P.C. Wu….

Councilman Andy Terhaar has posted a message on Facebook. He plans to vote against rezoning the property on the corner of Spanish Trail and Summitt…

The Vickery Center was packed last night with citizens worried about the possibility of a Dollar General store coming to the corner of Spanish Trail…

This email has been circulated by homeowner associations in the Cordova Park area: To all our Homeowners, Two residents brought to my attention that East…

Over the weekend Pensacola City Council received emails from citizens in the neighborhoods surrounding the intersection of Summit Boulevard and Spanish Trail, where the city…

Burgess Road is a narrow street, majority of which is inside the Pensacola city limits, that has become a “cut-through” traffic for those avoiding the…

Each Gallery Night, the monthly special event hosted by the Downtown Improvement Board on Palafox, costs the DIB $9,357 -which the organizations tries cover with…

Councilman Andy Terhaar has a food truck ordinance to pass out to the other council members tonight for their discussion on food trucks. He based…

We are getting several emails regarding a dollar store (not sure which brand – Dollar General, Family Dollar, Dollar Tree or just Dollar Dollar) being…