1A Northview Falls To 6A Niceville 4-1; Tate Shuts Out Milton
April 27, 2023
Niceville 4, Northview 1
The 1A Northview Chiefs closed their regular season Wednesday night in Bratt with a 4-1 loss to 6A Niceville 4-1.
Northview took a 1-0 lead in the third before Niceville evened the score in the fourth. After a couple of scoreless innings, Niceville took the lead in the top of the seventh.
Cason Burkett threw six and a third innings for the Chiefs, allowing three runs and six hits while striking out eight. Kaden Odom closed on the mound for Northview, allowing two hits and one run in the final two-thirds of an inning.
Odom, Josh Landis and Trent Knighten both had a hit for Northview.
The Chiefs move into the district tournament next week at the No. 1 seed.
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Tate 10, Milton 0
Tate Aggies pitchers Rilee Lowery and Colton Swiers combined to throw a 10-0 shutout of Milton Wednesday night in Santa Rosa County.
Lowery was on the mound for four innings, striking out five while allowing no runs on three hits. Swiers threw one inning in relief with no runs and three strikeouts.
Clifton Quiggins, James Davis, Cade Kelly and Kaleb Posta had two hits each. Frank Randall and Ethan McAnally had one hit each.
Up next, the Aggies move into the district playoffs next week at the No. 3 seed.
Pictured: Niceville slipped past Northview Wednesday night. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
Residents Receive License, Registration Services In Century On ‘FLOW’ Bus
April 27, 2023
The Florida Licensing On Wheels (FLOW) mobile office was back in Century on Tuesday.
According to the Escambia County Tax Collector Office, the FLOW unit had 29 total visitors and completed 11 vehicle registrations, five identification cards, three driver’s license renewals, and two license reinstatements.
The event was a partnership between Tax Collector Scott Lunsford and the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles at the Billy G. Ward Courthouse on North Century Boulevard.
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Northview Downs W.S. Neal 12-8 (With Gallery)
April 27, 2023
The Northview Chiefs beat the W.S. Neal Eagles 12-8 Wednesday night in Bratt.
The Chiefs took a commanding lead with a seven-run second inning.
Aubrey Stuckey went for four innings, striking out four while giving up six runs and seven hits. Emma Gilmore was in the circle for three, giving up two runs and four hits while striking out four.
Gilmore went 3-4 to lead Northview at the plate. Kendall Alvarée went 2-3 and Stuckey was 2-4. Jamison Gilman, Mary-Clayton Dawson, Allison Flowers and Makayla Golson added one hit each.
Northview will travel to Crestview Friday to end their regular season before the district tournament begins next week.
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Johnston Has Two Homers, Six Runs As Wahoos Beat The Biscuits
April 27, 2023
Troy Johnston tied a Blue Wahoos franchise record with two homers and six runs batted in as Pensacola defeated the Montgomery Biscuits 9-2 on Wednesday afternoon.
In front of a lively Education Day crowd at Riverwalk Stadium, Johnston teed off for his first two homers of the year – a two-run blast in the third and a three-run shot in the fourth – to accomplish just the third six-RBI game in franchise history, and first since Brandon Dixon achieved the feat in 2016.
Eury Pérez (W, 2-1) took the run support and ran with it, cruising through 6.0 innings of two-hit, one-run ball. The 20-year-old top prospect fanned five, securing the third quality start of his professional career.
Cody Morissette went deep on the heels of Johnston’s third-inning homer, giving the infielder his first Double-A hit and homer in his second game with the Blue Wahoos. That marked the end of the day for Biscuits starter Anthony Molina (L, 0-2), who allowed six runs while recording only six outs.
Joe Rizzo was 3-for-5 with a two-run double to open the scoring in the first before Johnston and Morissette contributed the remainder of the run-scoring hits.
Austin Roberts and Sean Reynolds completed the game for the Pensacola bullpen.
The Blue Wahoos continue their series against the Biscuits on Thursday evening in Montgomery.
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Man Struck By Ammo While Burning Trash, ECSO Says
April 26, 2023
A Cantonment man was hit by exploding ammunition while burning trash midday Wednesday in Cantonment.
The accident happened at a home on Goldenrod Road about 11:45 a.m. Escambia County EMS responded and transported the victim to a local hospital.
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office was notified of the incident by the hospital about 2 p.m., according to spokesperson Morgan Lewis. She said the man did not know that there was ammunition in the trash he was burning.
“It popped off and hit him in the hand,” Lewis said. His injuries were not considered life threatening.
Escambia Man Gets 30 For Threatening To ‘Shoot Up’ High School
April 26, 2023
An Escambia County man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for making threats against a high school.
Freeman Quyva Lindsey was convicted of two counts of electronic threats to kill, do bodily injury, conduct a mass shooting, or conduct an act of terrorism.
The charges stem from texts, and both public posts and private messages on Facebook where Lindsey threatened to “shoot Washington High School up” in February of 2022, according to prosecutors.
Lindsey was designated a habitual felony offender by Judge Jenny Kinsey, and his 30 year sentence on this case is to run consecutive to any other sentence he is currently serving.
County Code Enforcement Officer Met By McDavid Felon With A Gun, ECSO Says
April 26, 2023
An Escambia County Code Enforcement officer investigating a case near Walnut Hill was met by a convicted felon with a holstered gun on his side, according to the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office.
Haden Brock Howard, 28, was charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and failure to appear for a misdemeanor offense following the incident.
While investigating a complaint, a code enforcement officer spotted Howard near his residence in the 2500 block of Green Village Road with a pistol in a side holster. The code officer retreated his vehicle and notified law enforcement.
When a deputy arrived, Howard hid in front of a red pickup truck and stepped out when ordered, with an empty holster, according to an arrest report. He was immediately taken into custody on an outstanding warrant, and the pistol was located under a rubber mat in front of the pickup truck.
Howard was wanted on for failure to appear on a charge of knowingly driving with a suspended or revoked license. He remained in the Escambia County Jail Wednesday with bond set at $17,000. He was convicted of felony grand theft in July 2014.
According to Escambia County Code Enforcement reports, the house is a known drug house and the code violations at the home appear to have gotten worse. The address has an obviously dilapidated house with broken, trash and debris, vegetation overgrowth, two inoperable trucks, and it appears someone has been burning plastic and other trash.
Code enforcement noted that the home does not have ECUA trash service.
Escambia Schools Parents Can Choose Student Access Restrictions For School Library Books
April 26, 2023
Parents of students in Escambia County Public Schools will soon be able to fill out a form specifying what type of books their student can check out of the library.
The move comes as about 190 books have been challenged and a handful have been banned from school libraries.
The library access form will be available in the school district’s Focus Parent Portal on May 1, and it will allow parents to choose their student’s level of access to library collections.
If parents decide that unlimited access is best for their child, they need not fill out the form. The default for all students is unlimited, unless a parent makes another choice.
With unlimited access, students will have “full access to check out grade and age appropriate books that are available at their grade (elementary, middle, high) school library to include same grade level inter library loan as well as classroom libraries”.
Other options are:
- Limited: Students may check out books from the library media center, but there is content that a parent would like their student to not have access to in the library media center including the classroom library.
- No Access: Students are not permitted to check books out of the library media center or use classroom library books.
If a parent chooses “limited” on the form, they will be able to specify which type books they do not want their child to check out.
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Cat Country 98.7 Named ACM’s Radio Station Of The Year
April 26, 2023
Cat Country 98.7 has won the Academy of Country Music’s Radio Station of the Year award for small markets.
“We have an amazing team who are passionate about radio and who wake up every morning wanting to do the very best job they can and for that we are blessed,” said Cat Country 98.7 owner Mary Hoxeng.
The award will be presented during the 2023 ACM Awards show on May 11 in Texas. The show will be streamed on Amazon Prime Video.
The award, announced Tuesday, is the fifth won by the locally owned station in its 18-year history. The other wins were in 2005, 2008, 2010, and 2019.
Markers And Highlighters In Hand, Century Council Begins Charter Review
April 26, 2023
With a box of markers and a pack of highlighters, the Century Town Council set off on a deep dive into their charter during a two-hour workshop Tuesday night.
It was the first in a series of meetings in which the council will review their outdated charter line by line alongside a draft created over a three year period by a volunteer charter review committee. Both keep Century’s current strong mayor-town council form of government.
The town attorney submitted another draft build around a town manager and no mayor, but the council has all but shelved that version.
There were some questions and few points for clarification, but for the most part Tuesday night, the council was in agreement with the first portion of the charter review committee’s draft
The Century town charter is the document that establishes the town, outlines its powers and spells out how it should operate. The charter has not been updated in almost 40 years, and that often creates problems in the operation of the town.
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