The Fred Waters Youth Baseball Clinic returns on Saturday, June 10, from 9 a.m. to noon at Blue Wahoos Stadium. Read more. The Fred Waters event is open to all youths ages…
Beulah Town Hall tonight
Commissioner Jeff Bergosh will host a town hall tonight from 6-8 p.m. at Beulah Middle School, 6001 W. Nine Mile Road. The meeting will be recorded and posted to the Escambia County YouTube…
Vote for Foo Foo Fest
The Pensacola Foo Foo Festival has once again been named a finalist in the category of “Best Cultural Festival” in the 2023Hemispheres’Readers’ Choice Awards. Readers may vote for Foo Foo Fest for…
LPR team reaches $1.2 billion settlement with Dupont
Levin Papantonio Rafferty’s years of fighting for clean water is paying off. A national settlement in the amount of $1.185 billion has been reached between Dupont, Chemours, and Corteveva and the Plaintiffs…
Judge deals with ‘drag show’ legal fight
U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell prepares to hold a hearing Tuesday on a motion by operators of the Orlando restaurant Hamburger Mary’s for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against the…
Daily Outtakes: Wrong Spot?
Operation Brownville The law enforcement initiative to “clean-up” of a neighborhood shared by the City of Pensacola and Escambia County will end on Friday, June 16. Did Sheriff Simmons choose the wrong…
Buzz: City admin leaves no big deal
WEAR-TV and PNJ are trying to make a big deal of City Neighborhoods administrator Lawrence Powell and Parks & Rec director Adrian Stills going on administrative leave, insinuating that something nefarious is…
Last Word: Ed Banacia
Edwin Banacia Senior Director, Media, Ideaworks USA Inweekly, 8/19/2010 What is your chief characteristic? Googleability What do you appreciate most about your friends? Friends? I don’t have friends in real life anymore….
Big of the Year: Kenon Beasley
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Florida is proud to announce Kenon Beasley as the recipient of the 2023 Big Brother of the Year award in Escambia County. Kenon was selected to…
Pot amendment gets signatures
From The News Service of Florida: Backers of a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow recreational use of marijuana have surpassed a required number of petition signatures to place the initiative on…
Daily Outtakes: Tough walks, even tougher talks
Filthy School I toured Warrington Middle School yesterday with Charter Schools USA Florida superintendent Dr. Eddie Ruiz and Ana Cordal, Charter USA’s vice president of school support and compliance, and found the…
Last Word: Laura McKay
Laura McKay Inweekly, 12/9/2007 The 1620 AM NewsRadio afternoon news anchor has more than 20 years experience in radio and TV broadcasting. She recently worked at a news/talk station in Denver where…
Lexington Terrace Park options
Escambia County District 2 Commissioner Mike Kohler and Parks and Recreation will hold a public meeting Wednesday, June 7 at 4 p.m. at Lexington Terrace Park, 900 S. Old Corry Field Road,…
Charter Schools USA interview
On WCOA this morning, Dr. Eddie Ruiz, Charter Schools USA’s Florida state superintendent, discussed his expectations for Warrington Middle School. Why take on the challenge of WMS? “As I walked the halls…
School rules teed up
The Florida Department of Education is slated on Friday, June 9 to hold a series of online rule-development workshops that would help implement the new laws, including some proposals that were among…
Tim Smith gone, Malcolm Thomas back
The day Keith Leonard takes over as interim school superintendent, Malcolm Thomas reappears. This email has been sent out: URGENT: Escambia School District Prayer & Planning Meeting THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 2023 5:15P…
Daily Outtakes: Major Milestone Hit
Kudos to Gupta & IRIS Intelligent Retinal Imaging Systems (IRIS), the Pensacola-based leader in retinal screening technology, announced a significant milestone with the achievement of one million diabetic retinal exams performed. This…
Last Word: Leroy Boyd
In July 2005, we started “The Last Word,” a column in which locals answer questions about themselves. It was patterned after Vanity Fair’s The Proust Questionnaire – which had its origins in…
Real News: Let’s talk secession
If quality of place is critical to Pensacola’s future, it’s time for the city to secede from the Escambia County School District and create its own school district. A good public education…
It Happened Here: Fiesta of Five Flags
With Fiesta starting today with the Surrender of the City, I thought it would be fun to reprint this column from 12 years ago. There are a couple of changes : Fiesta…
