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Year In Review North Escambia’s Biggest Stories Of 2009: June
January 2, 2010
NorthEscambia.com is looking back at 2009 with our “Year in Review” series. Each day, we will review the biggest stories of 2009. Today, we take a look at the biggest stories of June 2009.
Signs advertising a Vacation Bible School event at Highland Baptist Church in Molino were stolen at least twice from around the community.
Archaeologists from the University of West Florida were hard at work in June uncovering the past in Molino, looking hard for a mission settlement dating back to the 1750’s.
Funeral services were held for Escambia County (Ala.) Sheriff’s Office Major Tommy America who died after enduring a long battle with cancer.
The Escambia County Comprehensive Annual Finance Report showed that each Escambia resident’s share of the county debt was $389.
Battery charges were dropped against a Town of Century employee that reportedly left a state prisoner unattended in a store parking lot while he got into fight inside the store.
June was hot…with multiple days over the 100 degree mark.
Plans moved forward for Escambia County’s first hurricane pet shelter at Molino Park Elementary.
A Century convenience store was robbed at gunpoint. The robber ran from the store with the register.
Elton Gilmore of McDavid retired after 32 years of service in the Florida Division of Forestry.
The Tri-County All-Stars were eliminated from the District 1 Little League 8-9 Year Old All Stars Tournament with a loss to Defuniak Springs.
Paul Edward Black, a sergeant at the Century Correctional Institution, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of possession of child pornography. In an unrelated case, another North Escambia man, Perry Leonard Gibbs of Bratt, was arrested and charged with molesting a child under the age of 12.
In a bizarre accident in Molino, a woman hit a horse on Highway 29, ripping the van apart. A second car hit the horse and overturned several times, and a third car also struck the animal’s remains.
The Escambia County Commission rejected a 3-cent gas tax to help fund mass transit in the county.
The Northview High School Food For America progrm was named one of top two such programs in Florida.
The Escambia County School Board approved the final documents to sell the old Molino School to Escambia County.
The Town of Century received a $1.5 million grant toward a water project that includes a new elevated storage tank and miles of new water main.
Over 5,000 people attend the first annual Escambia County Blueberry Jamboree sponsored in part by NorthEscambia.com at the Barrineau Park Community Center.
Century Mayor Freddie McCall appealed to the Escambia County Commission to ask them to urge Escambia County Tax Collector Janet Holley to reopen her office in Century.
Scott Joseph Thompson was charged with the murder of a Cantonment woman, Cheryl Cain. Cain’s body was found in a dumpster at an abandoned Pensacola gas station.
A Molino couple — Max and Julie Kent — held a yard sale at their home to sell all of their possession before heading to mission field in Guatemala.
Authorities in two states were on the lookout for a suspect after women were mugged in Walnut Hill and Atmore.
Solutia completed the sale of their nylon division, including their plant near Cantonment, to a New York-based private equity capital group. The company was renamed Ascend Performance Materials.
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