Category: Pensacola
Latin Salsa Festival
The 2024 Latin Salsa Festival will be held at Museum Plaza (300 S. Tarragona St.) in Downtown Pensacola on Sat., June 22 from 2 p.m….
Daily Outtakes: Childers clan wants more
Attorney Bruce Childers, husband of County Clerk Pam Childers, has qualified for the GOP primary for Supervisor of Elections. He will face interim election supervisor…
City tries Land Trust for affordable housing
The Pensacola City Council, meeting as the Community Redevelopment Agency board, unanimously approved donating three properties to the Northwest Florida Community Land Trust in a…
Reeves to do national search for new administrator
Pensacola City Administrator Kerrith Fiddler announced that he was stepping down, effective July 5, during the Pensacola City Council agenda conference on Monday. He said,…
Daily Outtakes: Who Qualified?
Escambia County Supervisor of Elections Robert Bender will be my guest on “Real News with Rick Outzen,” we will discuss who has qualified to run…
Sail Pensacola announces its goals
Sail Pensacola is a non-profit focused on making Pensacola the North American center for high-performance sailing events, boat engineering, sail engineering, and technology development related…
Escambia County has over 16,000 fewer voters than in 2020
Escambia County has lost over 7% of its voters, 16,224 people, over the past four years, thanks to laws passed by the Republican-controlled legislature since…
City breaks ground on Project Titan’s third hangar
This morning, Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves broke ground with city, county, state, and business leaders on Project Titan’s third hangar at the Pensacola International Airport….
Space still available for Protecting Places of Worship
The Mayor’s Office of Pensacola is joining the Pensacola Police Department, US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Florida and the Federal Bureau of…
Buzz: Arson in Cordova Park
Early Saturday morning, someone set a vehicle on fire near the home of Escambia County Clerk Pam Childers. Neighbors reported that police are protecting her…
UnityFest returns
Press Release: Attorney Troy Rafferty and Adoration for a New Beginning Church announced today that they will again present the Annual Juneteenth UnityFest: A Community…
Remembering Mayor Vince Whibbs
Mayor Emeritus Vince Whibbs, Sr. passed away on May 30, 2006, shortly after being named to the Community Maritime Park Associates board. He replaced Adm….
Papa Gaetz has a challenger
Don Gaetz will face a challenger in the race to fill State Sen. Doug Broxson’s seat this fall. Lisa Newell, the owner and publisher of…
May 28 presser takeaways: safety, recycling 2.0 and CRA
Mayor Reeves managed up the city’s police and firefighters for making Pensacola the nation’s fourth safest city, according to U.S. News World Report. “We’re well…
Heather Lindsay’s resignation letter
Last week, the City of Pensacola announced that Assistant City Attorney Heather Lindsay had submitted her resignation. Lindsay is also Milton’s mayor and was censured…
Presser takeaways
Mayor D.C. Reeves said the focus on reducing noise violations in downtown Pensacola reaped several citations and arrests over the first weekend of the off-duty…
Searching for JUST solutions on housing
By Tom St. Myer Nurse Kathy Chaplin’s son and daughter-in-law live with her out of necessity. The couple’s lone income is his salary from Publix….
DIB cracks down on noise problem
To curb the ill effects of loud noise pollution in the downtown district, the Pensacola Downtown Improvement Board is deploying additional police officers to crack…
CivicCon tackles low-barrier shelters tonight
CivicCon will host Jon DeCarmine, founder of GRACE Marketplace, at the Wesley Abbey building of First United Methodist Church (2 E Wright) on Monday, May…
Venue change for Galvez events
The City of Pensacola is celebrating the legacy of General Bernardo de Gálvez in a series of events this week. Please see the following schedule…
