Bratt Elementary Students Learn About Fire Safety
November 5, 2024
The Walnut Hill Station of Escambia Fire Rescue and Escambia County EMS recently spent a morning teaching Bratt Elementary School students about fire safety.
During the event, Bratt Elementary students wear able to see a fire truck, ambulance and other tools used by first responders.
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What’s That Mystery Molino Crop With The Yellow Flowers?
November 4, 2024
We received a lot of emails over the past few days asking about the unique yellow-flowering crop planted at Highway 29 and Highway 97 behind the Tom Thumb in Molino.
The plant is called Sunn Hemp (that’s Crotalaria juncea L for the scientific types).
It is a semi-tropical plant that is grown as a cover crop in the southeast. It’s a legume, growing in a variety of locations and returning nitrogen to the soil. It can also be used as a biomass to produce biofuels.
According to the USDA, sunn hemp can produce over 5,000 pounds of biomass and 100 pounds of nitrogen per acre. It can produce this amount within 60 to 90 days, so it has the potential to build organic matter levels and sequester carbon in the soil. It is known to suppress nematodes.
Pictured: Sun hemp Sunday afternoon at Highway 29 and Highway 97 in Molino. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge
Northview Band Members Perform With USA Jaguar Marching Band
November 3, 2024
Six Northview High School Tribal Beat Band members had the opportunity to perform Saturday with the University of South Alabama Jaguar Marching Honor Band in Mobile.
The students were able to perform at halftime on the field with the JMB, play in the stands, meet new friends, and experience gameday as a member of the Jaguar Marching Band.
Pictured: (front, L-R) Kayleigh Young and Elizabeth Coleman, (back, L-R) Justin Kinley, Olivia Doyle, Delina Garcia, Brynlie Shaw. Photo for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
Thousands Attend Fall Festivals, Other Thursday Night Events In North Escambia
November 1, 2024
Thousands of people attended fall festivals and other events Thursday night in the North Escambia area.
Organizers said a Fall Festival at the Pine Forest Assembly of God on Highway 297A in Cantonment was a huge success. They estimated over 500 people attended the family friendly event.
Picture: The Fall Festival at the Pine Forest Assembly of God on Highway 297A in Cantonment Thursday night. Photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
Photos: Flomaton Safe Night Trick Or Treating
October 30, 2024
Families from across the area attended Safe Night of Fun with Downtown Trick or Treat in Flomaton Tuesday evening.
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There were plenty of games, fun, a pumpkin carving contest, train rides, trick or treating, and, of course lots of candy in downtown Flomaton.
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Tate High School Names Hall Of Fame Members
October 30, 2024
Tate High School has announced their 2024-25 Hall of Fame.
The 20 students are:
- Brooke Alvare
- Kaylenia Bailey
- Kaydon Biggs
- Shacora Caldwell
- Katie-John Crow
- Natalie George
- Hayden Graybill
- Madalyn Jarman
- Jayce Latzer
- Hailey Locke
- Aiden Maher
- Nicholas Maum
- Lily McArthur
- Liam Montgomery
- Christian Neptune
- Kaleb Posta
- Courtney Reichard
- Calum Sarfert
- Gabriella Smart
- Kara Wine
Donation Brings Pumpkin Patch Fun to Century Camp Fire Students (With Gallery)
October 28, 2024
The children at the Camp Fire Century Youth Learning Center enjoyed a trip to the pumpkin patch Friday.
Camp Fire was unable to transport the children to a pumpkin patch, so the pumpkin patch came to them.
Emerald Coast Utilities Authority District 5 board member Kevin Stephens made personal donation for the pumpkins, which were purchased from the Allen Memorial Methodist Men Pumpkin Patch in Cantonment in order to benefit that group as well.
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Ransom Middle School Names Students Of The Month
October 28, 2024
Ransom Middle School has named their September Students of the Month. They are seventh graders Madison McCrary and Josh Samayoa. Photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
Photos: Spooky Walk At The Molino Library
October 27, 2024
The Molino Branch Library hosted a Spooky Walk Saturday afternoon with silly, spooky games and activities around the walking track behind the library.
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William Brown Family Of Walnut Hill Wins Escambia County Farm Family Award
October 25, 2024
The William C. Brown Family has been name the Escambia County Farm Bureau’s Farm Family Award.
Farming is the in blood of William and Jean Norris Brown, owners of a 740 acre Walnut Hill tree farm. The timber on Narrow Gap Tree Farm is primarily longleaf pines with some stands of hardwoods scattered and along the natural spring-fed branches that run through the property.
The crops produced include long range timber production, annual pine straw harvesting, and pine seed harvested during the bumper cone crop cycles. Bill developed a freezer system for storing pine seeds for up to 20 years while maintaining their viability.
Bill is always creating some remarkable invention to improve his farming equipment and processes. He intensively farms the longleaf pines by fertilization, mowing, pesticide application, pruning, and controlled burning. His farmed five-year-old longleaf pines reach heights of 15 feet compared to unfarmed five-year-old longleaf pines that not appear to be much more than grass.
Bill and Jean both graduated from Ernest Ward High School, where Bill was a football player and president of Future Farmers of America. Jean was a cheerleader, which became a vital role she has played in every aspect of their life together. Bill received a bachelor of science degree in business administration, with a minor in Economics, from the Universityof Southern Mississippi. Jean received a bachelor of arts degree in English from Florida State University.
They were married in 1963 and moved to Newport, Rhode Island, where Bill was stationed in the Navy. After Bill got out of the military, they moved to Pensacola where Bill worked for Gulf Power and Jean taught high school English. They have two children, Jennifer and Billy, and four grandsons ranging in age from sixth grade through college junior.
In 1977, Bill and Jean founded Air Design Systems, an HVAC and mechanical contracting company in Pensacola.
Bill always wanted to own some property, and in 1984 they got the opportunity to purchase their original 530 acres of timber land, known as Narrow Gap, just three miles from his parent’s homestead where he grew up.
Pictured: Escambia County Farm Bureau board member Jack Livingston presents the Farm Family Award to Bill and Jean Brown. Photo for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.