Blue Angels perform ‘America Strong’ flyovers
In a show of national solidarity, the Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, and the Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, the Thunderbirds, will conduct…
Grover to unveil Recover Pensacola plan
Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson will unveil his Recover Pensacola plan at his press conference today. He told Inweekly that the plan follows President Donald Trump’s…
Sunday COVID report
Florida COVID-19 cases topped 31K. The new county report by DOH shows Escambia County had 624 tests entered in the system on Saturday, April 25…
COVID-19: Saturday afternoon report – update
Update 6 p.m.: Â The new county analysis has been added. Today, the Florida Department of Health announced that the Department will now release this report…
Saturday morning COVID statistics and thoughts
The Community Health mobile unit tested 177 people yesterday at Morris Court – with no pre-screening required. Â Since Tuesday, the mobile unit collected nearly 600…
The Weekly Checkup: Nursing homes cautious about state reopening
By Christine Sexton, The News Service of Florida Long-term care providers confronted by a sizable number of deaths due to the coronavirus pandemic are more…
New Escambia County death tied to LTC
FDOH reports that , as of 10 a.m. EDT today, the state had 95 more COVID-19 cases and 10 more deaths among residents and staff…
Escambia has another COVID death, state tops 30K cases
Florida’s COVID-19 cases surpassed 30K and death toll is over a thousand as of 11 a.m. EDT today. Escambia County had another COVID-19 death –…
Over a third of COVID cases in Escambia are LTC workers
As of 11 a.m. yesterday, long-term care facilities in Escambia had 142 individuals staff members that had tested positive for COVID-19 and have accounted for…
COVID-19: Last Thursday post
Florida Dept. of Health has identified another long-term care facility in Escambia County that has a positive COVID-19 case – Bayside Health And Rehabilitation Center,…
Nursing homes, hospitals and physicians seek legal immunity
By Christine Sexton, News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — As Gov. Ron DeSantis looks to open the state back up, he is being pushed by…
Andrade, Robinson host virtual town hall
by Jeremy Morrison State Rep. Alex Andrade and Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson conducted a joint, online town hall Wednesday evening, where the two officials spoke…
DOH Escambia, EOC to hold press briefing
The media has been invited to a virtual meeting via Microsoft Teams today at 2:30 p.m. to discuss data reporting. Dr. John Lanza, director of…
LTCs, Lanza and Local Spike
Escambia County’s positive COVID-19 cases in long-term care facilities increased by 40 in past 24 hours, four since 6 p.m. Wednesday. Statewide, Florida had 53…
Pensacola considers band-aid for trees
by Jeremy Morrison The Pensacola City Council this week is considering tweaking the city’s landscape and tree protection plan section of its Land Development Code….
COVID-19: Mid-morning update
The FDOH dashboard has Escambia County picking up only four new cases since late Wednesday. Santa Rosa has three fewer cases. I wish we could…
COVID-19: Business updates
The Escambia County Emergency Operations Center has established the Economic Reset Working Group to provide the business community with current and relevant information and resources…
Grab a cup of coffee, this will blow your mind (update)
County/DOH LTC Numbers On Saturday, April 18, Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida of Department of Health released the list of long-term care facilities in…
Escambia among top five counties for nursing home cases
The Florida Department of Health reports tonight that Escambia County has 138 cases, up 36 from the 11 a.m. numbers and 68 from 6 p.m….
Pensacola’s 5G infrastructure taking shape
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Telecommunication companies are currently sizing up the city of Pensacola and mapping out 5G infrastructure plans. The new infrastructure is necessary…
