East Hill Neighborhood Association and City of Pensacola to Host Family-Friendly Health and Wellness Event at Bayview Park East Hill Neighborhood Association, in partnership with the City of Pensacola, will be hosting…
FavorHouse to get facelift
Pensacola, FL – FavorHouse of Northwest Florida has received state funds to use toward improvements to their Escambia County Emergency Shelter. Grantarenaus LLC, a local Pensacola company, won the bid for the…
Insulin: Fight against Big Pharma continues
Two of the three primary insulin providers announced substantial price reductions in March, but personal injury attorney Troy Rafferty says the reductions amount to a mere pittance considering the corporations jacked up…
Kiwanis Park Musical Sensory Garden ribbon cutting
The City of Pensacola invites the community to a ribbon cutting event on Tuesday, March 28 at 2 p.m. to celebrate the completion of a new musical sensory garden at Kiwanis Park,…
Latest Inweekly: Florida Legislature, Big Lewis and more
Bills, Bills, Bills 2023 Florida Legislative Session Guide – The 2023 Florida legislative session opened on Tuesday, March 7, and will run through May 5. With a possible 2024 presidential run by…
Day Break Marina celebrates new owners with boat show
PENSACOLA, FL – One In A Row Ventures, LLC, a local investment group led by entrepreneur Jason Crawford, in partnership with Chad Henderson, CEO/Founder of Pensacola-based Catalyst HRE, has purchased Bayou Chico’s…
Local GOP rallying support to ban books, superintendent referendum
The leaders of the Escambia County Republican Party have drunk the DeSantis culture war kool-aid and rallying their members to attend next week’s Escambia County School Board meetings. This was sent out…
Fees going up on Bayou Hills 5K, 10K
Pensacola’s Oldest Running Event Returns in March Pensacola, FL – (February 28, 2023) – One of Pensacola’s oldest running events, the Bayou Hills Run presented by Pensacola Sports, takes place Saturday, March…
Education Commissioner names former banned book a book of the month.
Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz has launched the Commissioner’s Book of the Month. Among the four books in the inaugural list is one that Duval County last year took off its schools’…
Senate Prez opposes lowering gun-buying age
From the News Service of Florida: Senate President Kathleen Passidomo, R-Naples, said Wednesday she does not support a proposal to lower the minimum age from 21 to 18 to buy rifles and…
Viewpoint: What makes Pensacola Beach so unique
By Leigh Davis, Executive Director of the Santa Rosa Island Authority Pensacola Beach just added another prestigious award to its long list of accolades when TripAdvisor’s annual Travelers’ Choice awards named Pensacola…
Exhibits for counterclaim in PHS nightmare
Here are the exhibits that support the counterclaim filed by Manda Moore-Joseph: 168611011 Ex 1 168611011 Ex 2 168611011 Ex 3 168611726 Ex 4 168611726 Ex 5 168611726 Ex 6 168611726 Ex…
ECT answers questions
While I was working on the Pensacola Humane Society debacle, the Escambia Children’s Trust executive director emailed her answers to my questions, five hours after she emailed it was impossible to do…
Kites on the Coast this Friday and Saturday
Council on Aging of West Florida is bringing high-flying, intergenerational fun to Pensacola’s Casino Beach Friday, March 17 and Saturday, March 18 with its second annual Kites on the Coast event. This…
Breaking: Former Humane Society director punches back
The former interim director of the Pensacola Humane Society yesterday filed a counterclaim against PHS, its board president Gerald Adcox and treasurer Barbara Sawyer. In the 53-page filing, Manda Moore-Joseph asserts that…
Experts share how to help tackle developmental delays
I’ve asked my sources outside Escambia County for input on how the Escambia Children’s Trust should tackle identifying and treating early childhood developmental delays. Here are the recommendations: A more focused (less…
ECT delays report on its analysis on developmental delays
I receive this email before lunch: Hi Rick, I will get the answers to your questions to you tomorrow. We have our Board meeting tonight, and I do not have time to…
Reeves: No word from Truth for Youth
On WCOA this morning, Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves said he hasn’t heard from Rev. John Powell, the Truth for Youth founder, on whether he received the loan necessary to stave off an…
Patience requested for yard waste pickups
City of Pensacola Sanitation crews are working diligently to collect an increasing amount of yard waste as peak season begins for yard waste collection in the spring and summer months. Due to…
State gets $7 Billion revenue bump
By Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Economists added more than $7 billion to the state’s general-revenue forecast for the current fiscal year and next fiscal year, despite concerns…