Category: Pensacola
Questions abound re:Bayview Community Center
People have begun to forward Inweekly their concerns regarding the $8.2 million Bayview Community Center that Mayor Ashton Hayward presented to the Pensacola City Council…
Anonymous reader protests anonymous source
I got this letter from a reader upset that we protected the name of the recovering heroin addict who helped with the story “Heroin Crisis…
Anti-Catholic signs hung on fence outside historic downtown church
Someone has hung two anti-Catholic signs on the fence outside the entrance to the historic St. Joseph Catholic Church in downtown Pensacola, across from M.C….
City of Pensacola has yet to close sale of Blount School property
Six months after the Pensacola City Council approved the sale of the old Blount School property to local developer ParsCo LLC, the county property appraiser’s…
Who remembers the swimming pool at Bruce Beach
Inweekly is interested in talking to people who remember the “colored” swimming pool at Bruce Beach. If you look at the construction documents closely -slightly…
DEP advertises for fish hatchery bids
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has posted its invitation for bids for the Florida Gulf Coast Marine Fisheries Hatchery and Enhancement Center. A mandatory…
City removes Corinne Jackson marker from Corinne Jones Park
The Corinne Jackson marker has been removed from Pensacola’s Corinne Jones Park. The marker, which misidentified African-American icon Corinne Jones, the first director of the…
See aerial footage of Bruce Beach
Watch this drone footage of Bruce Beach. You can see the two mitigation areas and the marsh conservation area. The site is larger that it…
For the record: Mitigation and conservation areas of Bruce Beach
Above is the map that was included in the Biological Assessment of Bruce Beach, completed in 2013. There are two mitigation areas – City of…
Plaque controversy: Corinne vs. Corrine, Jackson vs. Jones
On Tuesday, Dr. Gloria Horning sent an email on behalf of the Tanyard Neighborhood Association to CRA Director Helen Gibson regarding the Corinne Jackson plaque…
Six things you need to know about the Bruce Beach fish hatchery
1. June 2011 Council vote was not binding. When the Pensacola City Council voted unanimously in favor of the concept of a fish hatchery at…
Myth Buster: No soil contamination issues at Bruce Beach
When Mayor Ashton Hayward presented the fish hatchery initiative to the Pensacola City Council in June 2011, he repeatedly stressed the BP dollars would help…
The hard construction cost for hatchery building may range $5.5M-$8.7M, not $18.8M
We’ve heard Mayor Hayward talk about how the state is investing $18.8 M at Bruce Beach, Â The budget shows that only about half of the…
Missing Fish Hatchery documents detail inside hatchery and fish tank farm
The Pensacola Mayor’s Office has gotten lazy. Its Transparency Page segment on the fish hatchery only had a few renderings and a series of documents…
Corinne Jones Park details continue to plague Hayward administration
The Corinne Jones-Government Street Stormwater Pond project is nearly complete. Yes, there was another washout on the east pond, but the engineers will fix that….
Florida state hatcheries are in state parks away from population centers
The state of Florida has two freshwater fish hatcheries. The Florida Bass Conservation Center is in the Green Swamp Wilderness Preserve in Sumter County miles…
CRA administrator declares Bruce Beach not part of CRA…stop laughing
Mayor Ashton Hayward and his staff continue to try to wordsmith their way of the issues surrounding the fish hatchery. Last week, the mayor’s office…
Pensacola Mayor issues joint statement on fish hatchery
Joint Statement from FWC and Office of the Mayor regarding Hatchery Project “The City of Pensacola and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC)…
Breaking News: Grover Robinson files for Mayor
Escambia County Commissioner Grover Robinson pre-filed this morning to run for the Mayor of Pensacola in 2018. He is the first candidate to file for…
Pensacola City Council, First Amendment: ‘You’ve gotta walk the walk’
On Thursday, the Pensacola City Council showed its confidence in Council President Brian Spencer in reaction to a letter Mayor Ashton Hayward sent regarding Spencer’s…
