By Sammi Sontag Inweekly… The Woodland Heights Resource Center is tucked away off Fairfield Drive near Pensacola Village. The center was built in 2013 to bring cultural and creative outlets to African-American…
CityofPensacola.com still down
The City of Pensacola’s official website, cityofpensacola.com, has been down for more than 30 hours. Citizens have not had access to any city information. The city’s Facebook page has remained active, but…
Candidate forum set for June 28
Women for Responsible Legislation will hold their monthly meeting 11:15 a.m.-1 p.m. Thursday, June 28, at Pensacola City Hall. This month WRL will host a Political Forum with candidates running for City…
Port visioning begins tomorrow
Starting tomorrow, Tuesday, June 26, the City will be holding a Community Issues and Priorities Open House, and they want your input on how the port could be used for the betterment…
Ehr to hand out hurricane supply kits
Phil Ehr, Democratic Candidate for Florida’s First Congressional District, will team up with local business Pensacola Osteopaths to host a hurricane supply drive. A tent will be set up beginning at 10:00…
Endorsements for Garrett, Hill, McMillan and Wilson
Pam Bondi, Attorney General of the State of Florida, has endorsed Mike Hill for Florida House of Representatives, District 1: “I have worked with Mike Hill on many legislative issues, and he…
Pensacola Mayoral Candidate Forum on June 30
Bike Pensacola is hosting a mayoral candidates’ forum at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, June 30 at the West Florida Public Library, 239 N. Spring St. “We’ll start by allowing each candidate to provide…
Local teacher named JFR Alfred Lerner fellow
Lauren Samoszenko, a teacher at Ransom Middle School in Cantonment, was recently selected as one of 29 Holocaust educators from 12 states, Croatia and Poland, as a 2018 Jewish Foundation for the…
Hayward administration forced council budget analyst to resign
A letter sent to the Pensacola City Council by Butch Hansen, its budget analyst, asserts that he was forced to resign by the mayor’s office because “City Administration” believed Hansen’s candidacy for…
City aware of website issue
The city forwarded this email to us: From: Trudi Nichols Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 6:52 AM To: All City Staff + Council Staff Subject: Website Issue Importance: High Good morning, The…
Historic Little League game honored
At its regular meeting on Thursday, June 21, the Escambia County Commission recognized the 1955 Pensacola Jaycees Baseball Team for their contribution to the civil rights movement. The group of 12-year-old boys…
CityofPensacola.com has issues
If you have tried to logon on to City of Pensacola’s official website, cityofpensacola.com, you might have received this message using Chrome: Attackers might be trying to steal your information from www.cityofpensacola.com(for example,…
Spencer’s official announcement to enter mayoral race
This press announcement was sent out late Friday afternoon: Pensacola City Councilman Brian Spencer today announced his candidacy for mayor of Pensacola. First elected to City Council in November 2010, Spencer is…
Bayview center was over budget a month after $8.25M vote
On Sept. 20, 2017, the Pensacola City Council approved a $8.25-million budget for a new Bayview Community Center. According to public records Inweekly received late last week, Caldwell Associates Architects gave the…
Poll: Bender leads D4 primary but very tight race
Robert Bender has the lead in the GOP primary to replace County Commissioner Grover Robinson, according to an Inweekly/Political Matrix poll of 419 likely Republican voters in Escambia County District 4. However….
Mayor Hayward announces tentative agreements with Fraternal Order of Police, gives no details
This afternoon, Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward announced he had reached tentative agreements with the Police Officer, Sergeant, and Lieutenant bargaining units represented by the Fraternal Order of Police. He offered no details…
Spencer qualifies to run for mayor
Pensacola City Councilman Brian Spencer has jumped in the mayor’s race. Christopher Lewis, who has previously run for Pensacola mayor and city council, has qualified to run for ECUA District 4 as…
Litton qualifies
Greg Litton has qualified to run for Escambia County Commission District 4 post. In only pre-qualified candidate that has yet to qualify is Linda Moultrie for School Board District 3.
Bell files and closes Escambia County Commission District 4 GOP primary (update)
Leigh Bell has qualified as a write-in candidate for the Escambia County Commissioner District 4 seat. This closes the August 28 primary and allows only registered Republicans to vote in it. Note:…
Little information offered on Pensacola Police union negotiations
Yesterday, we reported that Mayor Ashton Hayward had offered the police union a 10-percent raise. We sought more information from the city. Vernon Stewart, the mayor’s public information officer, told Inweekly in…