Year In Review North Escambia’s Biggest Stories Of 2008: August

January 3, 2009

NorthEscambia.com is looking back at 2008 with our “Year in Review” series. Each day, we will review the biggest stories of 2008. Today, we take a look at the biggest stories of August 2008.

Fire destroyed a Walnut Hill home on Highway 97 (pictured above). NorthEscambia.com was first on the scene, and had exclusive photo coverage as firemen arrived on scene and began to battle the blaze. Read more…

We looked at the question “Could North Escambia become part of the City of Pensacola?”. The entire North Escambia county area, including the Town of Century, would join the rest of Escambia County and the City of Pensacola under one unified government if a new political organization gets its way. The new combined government  would form the fourth largest city in Florida. Read more…

One of the biggest meth labs in recent Escambia County history was discovered in Molino. It took deputies and a hazardous materials team about 15 hours in to cleanup the methamphetamine lab in the 800 block of Nancy Lane off Highway 95A, about a quarter mile behind Highland Baptist Church. Read more…

A freak accident sent a tree crashing into a van on Highway 97. Read more…

Several thousand Frontier Communications in the Walnut Hill and Molino telephone exchanges were without phone service for over an hour Wednesday afternoon following a cable cut in Davisville. An unknown number of cellular phone users in the area were also unable to make calls for a short period of time due to the cable cut. Read more..

Escambia County deputies spent a couple of hours searching for a burglary suspect in the Christian Home community after a woman came home to discover someone in her house. Read more…

Malcolm Thomas, candidate for Escambia School superintendent, brought his campaign message to Walnut Hill saying that Escambia County deserves better in its school system. Thomas would go on to win the seat in November. Read more… The same night Thomas was in Walnut Hill, sheriff candidate and eventual winner David Morgan also spoke to the Walnut Hill Ruritan Club. Read more…

New Life Baptist Church has never paid a utility bill since it moved into the old Century High School in August of 2004. That’s what Pastor Irvin Stallworth acknowledged during an exclusive interview with NorthEscambia.com. NorthEscambia.com was first to reportthat utility bills on the building were being paid by the school board. New Life leases the old school from the Escambia County School Board for $1 a year. Read more…

A charter school applicationwasfiled for the Carver/Century K-8 School by a Century foundation and the Century Blue Ribbon Committee on Education. But that’s not the same blue ribbon committee than the one appointed by the Town Council to save the school. Read more…

The members of one local church gave their new pastor and his wife a pounding on an August Sunday night. And they gave him a little sugar too. Read more…

The Escambia County School District has discovered that it had been paying utility bills to the Town of Century on a building the school system does not own. Read more…

Over two dozen Molino Park Elementary School students took to the hallways of the schooto ask for the Lord’s blessing on their upcoming school year. Read more…

A Byrneville man lost his granddaughter on Thanksgiving day 2005 at the intersection of Byrneville Road, Bluff Springs Road and Highway 29. It’s a tragedy that he says could have been prevented with a traffic signal, and he is on a mission to save other lives from being lost at the North Escambia intersection. Read more…

Gas prices began to decline from their over $4 summer high. By mid-August, gas was down to $3.58 a gallon in North Escambia. Read more…

School started with a few problems reported. Students at Ernest Ward Middle School were over 30 minutes late leaving campus due to bus scheduled problems. Read more…

Ernest Ward Middle School and the Quintette Community Center were among the recipients of grants from the International Paper Pensacola Mill. The grants, totaling $50,000, were presented to 15 groups in the area. Read more…

The Escambia County School Board did not vote to close Carver/Century K-8 School at their August meeting, but they did vote to begin the process of deciding where to send students once the school closes. The board voted 4-1 to have the School Attendance Zone Advisory Committee (SAZAC) rezone the Carver/Century school zone to send the children to other North Escambia schools including Bratt Elementary and Ernest Ward Middle School. Board member Claudia Brown-Curry cast the lone no vote. Read more…

Two Century families were homeless after a tree fell into their mobile homes, pushed over by the winds of Tropical Storm Fay. Read more…

After 24 years on the Escambia County School Board, Pete Gindl, Sr. was voted out of that office. Gindl finished third in the District 5 School Board race in August, behind Bill Slayton and Tom Harrell. Slayton and Harrell would face each other on the November ballot. Read more…

Republican challenger David Morgan beat incumbent Escambia County Sheriff Ron McNesby in August by over three thousand votes. Morgan would face Democratic challenger Larry Scapecchi in November. Read more…

The ACLU and two students filed suit against the Santa Rosa County Schools over prayer, and NorthEscambia.com learned that the ACLU has requested documents concerning prayer from Escambia County Schools. Read more…

Bratt Elementary School showed off their new media center an their annual fall open house. Read more…

The Century Town Council talked code enforcement , with some members admitting that it was going to be a touchy political subject. Read more…

Comments

Comments are closed.

Written by William Reynolds · Filed Under News