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Year In Review North Escambia’s Biggest Stories Of 2010: May, June
December 28, 2010
NorthEscambia.com is looking back at 2010 with our “Year in Review” series. Each day this week, we will review the biggest stories of 2010. Today, we take a look at the biggest stories of May and June.
(For January and February, click here.)
(For March and April, click here.)
MAY
A 48-year old McDavid woman died after being found floating face down in the Escambia River near McDavid.
Gas prices were up for Memorial Day travel.
A three-year old girl was found floating faced down in a pool in the Bay Springs community. She later made a full recovery.
A new Dollar General store was announced for Molino.
Tate High School’s Mock Trial Team was honored by the Escambia County Commission for winning state in the Florida High School Mock Trial Competition tournament and placing in the National High School Mock Trial Championship.
Longtime educator and Escambia County School Board member Peter R. (Pete) Gindl, Sr. of Barrineau Park passed away in mid-May.
An 11-year old boy faced a third degree felony charge of carrying a concealed weapon and a first degree misdemeanor charge of improperly exhibiting a firearm after he allegedly pulled an unloaded gun at Bradberry Park in Walnut Hill.
May brought a bit of disappointing news for movie fans in the area as Movie Gallery announced the closure of all of their stores, including Cantonment, Atmore and Flomaton.
Over 4,000 people applied for oil spill recover jobs during a hiring event, including hundreds that applied in Century.
Nearly 500 elementary school students took part in the annual Sunshine Math Competition held at Tate High School, including many from North Escambia.
Hundreds attended the annual Old Fashioned Day in Jay.
A Florida High School Athletic Association committee gave preliminary approval to creating a new division for for small, rural schools like Northview and Jay. Schools in the rural division would compete within their own division and have their own playoff series for boys and girls basketball, baseball, football, softball and girls volleyball.
The North Pensacola Relay for Life was held at Tate High School with over 1,000 people taking part.
JUNE
FCAT scores were released in June, with Northview, Tate, Ernest Ward and Ransom recording some of the highest scores in the county at some levels.
The Century Town Council held a public workshop to decide if a local man was operating a junkyard on his residential property and if what he claimed to do for a living was a business — all part of the process to determine if the council would vote to change the rezoning on his property to commercial.
Alex, the first tropical storm of the season, entered the Gulf of Mexico and later made landfall in Mexico.
June 23 — It was the day that the World’s Whitest Beaches were no more. It was the day that the oil began to wash onto the shores of Pensacola Beach. It was the day the sands were stained black with oil; it was the day the tears of the locals stained the remaining sugar white sand.
he Northview High School FFA’s Food For America program was named the best in Florida during the 82nd Florida FFA State Convention in Orlando.
The first health advisories for Escambia County’s beaches were issued June 23 due to the oil spill.
Escambia County deputies were called to a late night bash at the Century Community Center, four months after the Town Council said it would review its rental policy for the building.
Robert Grant Piehl was sentenced to 20 years in state prison after being found guilty of shooting into an elderly woman’s home in a dispute over $40 in fake crack cocaine.
Robin Brownie Floyd, 53, and Lynn Livingston Floyd, 43, both of Gilmore Road, Century, were both found guilty on seven of eight charges of confinement of animals without sufficient food or water.
The Barrineau Park 4-H Club was honored as the oldest continuing 4-H Club in Florida.
The International Paper plant in Cantonment was shut down for about two hours due to a fire in a powerhouse. There were no injuries.
Former Flomaton Police Chief Harold L. Stewart passed away in June from injuries he received in a May traffic accident in Century.
Over 4,000 people braved the sweltering heat to attend the second annual Blueberry Jamboree Saturday at the Barrineau Park Community Center.
There were 130 graduates in the Northview High School Class of 2010, while 75 graduated from Jay.
Former Century Town Council member Marie McMurray passed away. She was 84.
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