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Blue Angels Select Officers for 2025 Season
JULY 15, 2024 – The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, selected five new officers to join the team for the 2025 air show season. The squadron selected two F/A-18E/F Super Hornet pilots, a C-130J Super Hercules pilot, an Events Coordinator and a Flight Surgeon to replace outgoing team members.
12-story apartments, hotel proposed for Community Maritime Park in Downtown Pensacola
PENSACOLA, Fla. -- A Pensacola development company wants to build a "mixed-use neighborhood" on Downtown's waterfront next to Blue Wahoos Stadium. The Dawson Company laid out their proposal Monday for the Community Maritime Park property. The plans include a four-star hotel, a retail center and a 12-story apartment complex with...
Letters: Send Sam Parker and James Calkins packing in August; BEACH Act is a must
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Twelve-story apartment and hotel development proposed for Community Maritime Park
Inspired Communities of Florida is looking to execute its long-held lease option on a parcel at Community Maritime Park to build a new $150 million apartment and hotel complex across the street from Blue Wahoos Stadium. The Pensacola City Council will vote Thursday on another 30-day extension of its lease...
Qualifying dates approaching for Milton and Gulf Breeze municipal elections
Come Monday, to paraphrase the late, great Jimmy Buffett, it will be all right for would-be Milton city council persons to pick up election packets as a first step toward seeking local office. And there will be no shortage of seats up for grabs as four members currently serving on...
Mayor on parking fee changes
On WCOA’s “Real News with Rick Outzen,” Mayor D.C. Reeves explained his decision to end free two-hour parking on most of Palafox Street and increase the fees elsewhere. “The old parking fee structure we were under before was 50 cents an hour, 30 minutes free, only for certain spaces until seven o’clock,” he said. It caused two fundamental problems. One is the availability of spaces at night is non-existent because we don’t charge at all. And second, it’s not enough revenue to give positive consequences back to the citizens.”
City of Pensacola’s Inaugural Party in the Park
The City of Pensacola is hosting the inaugural “Party in the Park” – a 2-day event in Hollice T. Williams Park to promote community engagement for the development of the Hollice T. Williams Equitable Development Framework Plan (Equity Plan) and to kick off the park design process.
Escambia County Public Schools to host job fair on July 29
PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Escambia County Public Schools will host a job fair on July 29. It's set for 9-11 a.m. in Room 160 at the J.E. Hall Center, located at 30 E. Texar Drive in Pensacola. The district will be looking to fill vacancies in all educational support departments, including...
Pensacola looking at current twice-a-week garbage pickup as it brings back recycling
Pensacola may consider changes to its twice-a-week garbage pickup as part of offering curbside recycling. Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves said the city will be surveying its sanitation customers soon to determine their opinion of the city's twice-a-week garbage pickup service. ...
Pensacola trees will turn blue in November for Foo Foo Fest
Come November when the evening comes creeping early, colors soften and the air − cross our fingers − cools, a swath of crape myrtles in downtown Pensacola will began to take on a blueish tint, from trunk up to the lower limbs. Pensacola's Wendi Davis has seen this...
Pensacola Running of the Bulls
The 13th Annual Running of the Bulls starts at 9 a.m. on Saturday, July 20, at Seville Quarter in downtown Pensacola. This family-friendly event, modeled after the famous bull run of Pamplona, Spain, has traded out traditional bulls for skaters from West Florida Roller Derby and visiting leagues who have traded their game jerseys for costumes and horns! Participants will run/walk a 2-mile course pursued by the “bulls.”
While Florida politicians push expensive fossil fuels, utilities are building lots of solar farms
I was in the Panhandle last week visiting family. On the long drive between Pensacola and Jacksonville, I noticed something that made me pull off the interstate and investigate. Not far from the musical sign that marks the bridge over the Suwannee River, I encountered what looked to be a...
Pace Water System looking to expand with a new lawn & maintenance building
Pace Water System has applied to develop a new 6,400-square-foot lawn & maintenance building, according to the project’s site plan filed with Santa Rosa County. The proposed building is planned to be near Vinewood Lane on a portion of a 237-acre parcel, which will also partially overlap with one of Florida Power & Light's easements in the area.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting selects Poynter to deliver enhanced public media Digital Transformation Program
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced July 15 that it has selected the Poynter Institute to develop and deliver a new and significantly larger second phase of its Digital Transformation Program. The training will educate and coach up to 225 public media entities and hundreds of station leaders and their staffs to develop and optimize an audience-first, multi-platform approach to their organizational strategies, operations and culture. The virtual training will be funded by a grant of up to $5 million from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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