From Pelican General Manager T. Nunnari: Pelican Park/ UWF capacity:  2,500 2006 average Attendance:   1,670 (67% occupancy) Weekend Average: 2,230 (90% occupancy) 2006 Largest Crowd:   August 26 – 4,209; July 4 –…
Tag: COMMUNITY MARITIME PARK
They keep plugging away
The Stop Our City folks keep plugging away at Gulf1.com. They miss their Tuesday night meetings at the Bayview Community Center. Some are still trying to figure out what happened. Mr. Cobb…
Studer blamed for tax increase
William Thurston is becoming a regular letter writer to the PNJ. This letter is from the Sunday edition: A boondoggle Well, it sure didn’t take long for our taxes to go, did…
Nancy Fetterman: “Well done”
Note from Nancy Fetterman: Tonight, I just returned from the cruise that Jack and I were to take together. It is late morning in Florence so I am wide-awake reading my mail….
Did Save Our City tackle the wrong issue?
For over 18 months, Save Our City had the City of Pensacola and most of Escambia and Santa Rosa counties embroiled in a debate over a waterfront park that would require a…
Willie has all he needs
The Save Our City mentality still exists. Here’s a letter sent to the PNJ: What will be at park, that we don’t already have? One person recently wrote he was against the…
Who will be on Maritime Park board?
The PNJ did a story on the board for Community Maritime Park Associates: Interest high in park board. This board will oversee the construction, development and management of the Vince Whibbs Community…
Gulf1: SOC failed because of PNJ picture
Here is why William Cobb (Stop Our City supporter) believes the Community Maritime Park passed – as per his letter posted on gulf1.com: False Representation by William T. Cobb I am concerned…
Where’s Marty? Who should replace him?
A week ago, we woke to find that not only the Community Maritime Park had passed, but that the district that voted heaviest for the park was Marty’s. Since then, the District…
It’s late at night …and I’ve had too much to think – 9/12/06
It has been a week since the Community Maritime Park passed. Everything is the same, but everything has changed. The Pensacola City Council, except for Marty Donovan, is more unified than ever….
Virgil has hard time letting go
Letter to the PNJ: Vote them out Thank you to Charles Fairchild and his Save Our City political action committee for trying to save our downtown waterfront for the residents of Pensacola….
Mystery of the day: Missing Howard Viewpoint
 Pensacola City Council candidate and Stop Our City supporter Jerry Howard wrote a viewpoint against the Vince Whibbs Community Maritime Park (Jerry Howard) for the right-wing website Gulf1.com. Today, Howard’s viewpoint…