The Post Office on South Palafox Place is closing. The new owner wants USPS out of there. No word on whether the fountain is being removed, too. Those with post office boxes…
Category: Pensacola
Presser: Mayor seeking to conserve Bay Bluffs
By Tom St. Myer At his weekly press conference, Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves announced he will be meeting with Conservation Florida on Oct. 19 about conserving closed Bay Bluffs Park. Rumors circulated…
Daily Outtakes: Top 10, Still Interested, Don’t Panic
Pensacola Makes Top 10 Conde Nast Traveler named Pensacola to its “Top 10 Best Small Cities” for 2023 in the 36th Annual Readers’ Choice Awards. Why this matters: In its announcement, Vist…
Presser Takeaways: Recycling, Bluffs and Baptist
At his weekly press conference this morning, Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves said the UWF Haas Center has 1,556 eligible responses to its residents satisfaction survey that can be weighted for the final…
Outtakes: Parting the Curtain
The Friday meal at Baptist Hospital began as a simple idea. Let’s bring together the Black women who lived, worked, and raised their families with Baptist Hospital as the hub of their…
Breaking: Georgia Blackmon passes
Pensacola civil rights leader and icon, Georgia Blackmon has passed away. In 1989, Georgia opened The Gathering Awareness and Book Center to offer African-American literature and history and be a gathering place…
Takeaways from Mayor’s presser
Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves held his weekly press conference today. Here are some of my takeaways: Bay Bluffs The Bay Bluffs walkway will be demolished, and the mayor isn’t sure what will…
Daily Outtakes: What did Baptist promise? What did Community ask for?
Baptist Hospital will not provide any medical services at its E Street campus after it moves on Saturday, Sept. 23, even though 80% of the people living within a mile of the…
PNJ print article on Baptist Hospital MIA from web (Update)
The Pensacola News Journal’s Sunday print edition has a front-page article on Black leaders’ concerns about what happens after Baptist Hospital moves from its E Street campus- “Blight or opportunity” by Mollye…
New Pensacola Sanitation Collection Schedule
Mayor D.C. Reeves announced the two-day pickup schedule for Pensacola residents: Monday Customers Monday: Garbage and yard waste Thursday: Garbage only Tuesday Customers Tuesday: Garbage and yard waste Friday: Garbage only Wednesday…
Podcast: CoC, Fair, City Council, Chorus and GC Kid’s House
Escambia County Administrator Wes Moreno discusses why he and Mayor D.C. Reeves want to a play active roles in the Continuum of Care that deals with the area’s homeless. Unfortunately, Opening Doors…
Kaycee Lagarde returning to county government
The City of Pensacola Public Information Officer Kaycee Lagarde is returning to Escambia County government to serve as its Strategic Communications Director. Before taking the city PIO job under Mayor Grover Robinson,…