Escambia County Emergency Management invites girls entering 7th, 8th and 9th grades to participate in the inaugural HERricane Escambia program. The deadline to apply for the program is Friday, May 3. This…
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City celebrates Galvez next week
The City of Pensacola is celebrating the legacy of General Bernardo de Gálvez in a series of events next week. When Spain declared war on Great Britain in 1779, Gálvez began planning…
Daily Outtakes: Gaetz punks Dimmock
Florida Politics reports Rep. Matt Gaetz has bought several web domains using his GOP primary challenger Aaron Dimmock’s name. Gaetz is using the sites to publicize Dimmock’s record of supporting diversity, equity…
Real News looks a City enterprises
Port of Pensacola Twenty years ago, the City of Pensacola struggled to find a viable business strategy for the financially struggling Port of Pensacola. Ideas such as transforming warehouses into a maritime…
Lane closures on North Tarragona
Sections of North Tarragona Street are experiencing temporary lane shifts while AT&T crews continue to bore through city roads to bury and add aerial fiber cable. The construction is taking place in…
Daily Outtakes: Gaetz gets an opponent
Last Friday, Aaron Dimmock, the director of executive development for the UWF Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis and Overholtz Center for Leadership, jumped in the GOP primary to take on Rep. Matt Gaetz. Dimmock…
Daily Outtakes: Wahoos end home stand with walk-off
Written by Bill Vilona Pensacola, Fla. – The players raced from the dugout and a filled ballpark erupted in glee. The Blue Wahoos couldn’t have dreamed a better ending to their only…
Airport hangar contract awarded
Investing.com reports that Tutor Perini Corporation announced Wednesday that its subsidiary, Roy Anderson Corp, has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $72.7 million for Hangar 3 of Project Titan (ST Engineering)…
TSA sending eight
The Transportation Security Administration has notified the City of Pensacola that 8 additional TSA employees from the National Deployment Force (NDF) have been approved and will begin working at Pensacola International Airport…
Daily Outtakes: PNJ 2001 Power List
While working on another project, I came across the PNJ published its list of our areas Top 20 Leaders in 2001. They aren’t ranked like our Power List, but it’s all male…
Pensacola Energy gets $10.1 million from Feds
Pensacola Energy was awarded $10.1 million in federal grant funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation to replace unprotected bare steel mains with polyethylene pipe throughout the City of Pensacola and Escambia…
Mayor’s presser at Bruce Beach – see video
At today’s press conference, the media got to visit Phase 1 of Bruce Beach Park at the same time Mayor D.C. Reeves made his first walk-through of the 13-acre site. “This has…