The Corinne Jackson marker has been removed from Pensacola’s Corinne Jones Park. The marker, which misidentified African-American icon Corinne Jones, the first director of the Fricker Community Center, and was marred with…
Tag: Tanyard
Plaque controversy: Corinne vs. Corrine, Jackson vs. Jones
On Tuesday, Dr. Gloria Horning sent an email on behalf of the Tanyard Neighborhood Association to CRA Director Helen Gibson regarding the Corinne Jackson plaque at Corinne Jones Park. She wrote, “This…
Government Pond near completion
The work on the Corrine Jones-Government Street stormwater pond is near completion, according to a drone video posted to the city’s Facebook page. Construction on the project began in the spring of…
Five years ago, Mayor Hayward held a town hall in the Tanyard area
There was a time when Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward was not afraid to hold open meetings in neighborhoods and discuss ideas freely. This is a post from town hall he held five…
Tanyard residents seek answers
By Sammi Sontag Inweekly At a Tanyard neighborhood meeting held at the Corinne Jones Resource Center Thursday evening, Pensacola City Councilwoman Jewel Cannada-Wynn listened to her constituents as they spoke about her…
Cannada-Wynn hosts town hall in Tanyard neighborhood
Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward may not like facing this constituents in a town hall format, but Councilwoman Jewel Cannada-Wynn is willing to pick up the slack. She has sent out notices for…
City of Pensacola blames ECUA for raw sewage in Tanyard
Yesterday, ECUA executive director Steve Sorrell blamed the raw sewage flowing on DeVilliers Street one block west of Pensacola City Hall on the failure of the City of Pensacola stormwater system. Inweekly…
ECUA confirms raw sewage caused by City of Pensacola stormwater failure
Inweekly obtained this email between ECUA board member Lois Benson and ECUA Executive Director Steve Sorrell. We had earlier reported that the human waste on Devilliers Street may have been caused by…
City decision may have led to flooding Tanyard neighborhood with raw sewage
The Escambia County Utilities Authority’s Tim Haag reported that the cause of raw sewage overflowing in the Tanyard neighborhood a block west from City Hall was the result of a deluge of…
Reports of human waste flowing in the Tanyard (update)
Dr. Gloria Horning, who lives one block west of Pensacola City Hall on DeVilliers Street in the Tanyard neighborhood, reported late yesterday afternoon, “I’m at the corner of DeVilliers and Zaragossa. The…
DEP still has open items on Pensacola Tanyard stormwater project
Emerald Coastkeeper Laurie Murphy followed up with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection on the violations the agency found at the City’s Government Street Stormwater Project in the Tanyard neighborhood two blocks…
Original Pensacola Tanyard project budget was $4.58 million
When the Pensacola City Council approved the contract for Government Street Stormwater Project in December 2015, they were told the budget was $4,584,605. The project would be funded with: NFWF Grant $2,106,500…