Expect Overnight Ramp Closures At Highway 29, Nine Mile Road
October 15, 2021
Nighttime temporary ramp closures at the Highway 29 and Nine Mile Road interchange are underway this week.
Drivers can anticipate the ramp closures through Saturday, October 16, between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., according to the Florida Department of Transportation.
The closures are required to allow crews to pave the on- and off-ramps, one ramp at a time. Flagmen and detour signage will be in place.
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Tate Celebrates Senior Night With Win Over Northview (With Photo Gallery)
October 15, 2021
The Tate High School Lady Aggies celebrated their seniors Thursday night and defeated the Northview Chiefs 3-0.
The Aggies honored senior players Jayna Burdick, Sophia Jones, Danica Riddell, Allison Baer and Gina Cagle
For more Tate Senior Night and game action photos, click or tap here.
NorthEscambia.com photos by Crystal Tolbert, click to enlarge.
Jim Allen Elementary Students Receive Free Dictionaries
October 15, 2021
Members of St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church in Cantonment recently presented new dictionaries to students at Jim Allen Elementary School. Each third grader received their own copy of “A Student’s Dictionary.” The goal of The Dictionary Project is to assist all students in becoming good writers, active readers, creative thinkers, and resourceful learners by providing them with their own personal dictionary. Photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
Here Is Tonight’s High School Football Schedule
October 15, 2021
FLORIDA
- Northview at Pensacola Catholic
- Tate at Crestview
- West Florida at Wakulla
- Pine Forest at Milton
- Washington at Gulf Breeze
- Pensacola High at Godby
- Navarre at Pace
- Jay (bye week)
- Escambia (bye week)
ALABAMA
- Lighthouse Christian at Escambia Academy
- W.S. Neal at Escambia County (Atmore)
- Flomaton at Hillcrest-Evergreen
- T.R. Miller (bye week)
NorthEscambia.com photo.
Escambia County Names Teachers Of The Year
October 14, 2021
Escambia County’s Teachers of the Year have been picked to represent their respective schools.
One of them will be named the Escambia County School District’s overall Teacher of the year.
The Teachers of the Year by school are:
- Achieve Academy — Aarin Phillips Nedd
- Alternative Education — William Broome
- Jim Allen Elementary — Amanda Robar
- Jim C. Bailey Middle — Jessika Brown
- Bellview Elementary — Christina Burson
- Bellview Middle — Dominick Limle
- Beulah Academy of Science — Jessica Lewis
- Beulah Elementary — Kris Lapata
- Beulah Middle School — Cindy Speed
- Blue Angels Elementary — Eunice Angeles
- Bratt Elementary — Mary Rackard
- Brentwood Elementary — Gail Hanson
- Brown-Barge Middle — Angela Nass
- Hellen Caro Elementary — Tammy Robertson
- N. B. Cook Elementary — Mary de Boer
- Cordova Park Elementary — Courtney Lurton
- Ensley Elementary — Iris Jones
- Escambia High — Susan Chambers
- Escambia Westgate — Melissa Caldwell
- Exceptional Student Education — Elizabeth Leonard
- Ferry Pass Elementary — Diondria Bridges
- Ferry Pass Middle — Brittany Wobecky
- Global Learning Academy — Amanda Westbrooks
- Reinhardt Holm Elementary — Lisa Jones
- Hope Horizon — Vivian Gillard
- Kingsfield Elementary School — Jessica Phelps
- Lincoln Park Elementary — Laura Hobbs
- R. C. Lipscomb Elementary — Dustin Brenton
- Longleaf Elementary — Laury Heath
- L. D. McArthur Elementary — Lindsey Jeremiah
- Molino Park Elementary — Jessica Varner
- Montclair Elementary School — Ashley Roache
- Myrtle Grove Elementary — Rich Gonzalez
- Navy Point Elementary — Dovennie Day
- Northview High — Jeffrey D. Simpkins
- Oakcrest Elementary — Philip Jones
- Pensacola High — Karen Bruening
- Pine Forest High — Jamiliya McBride
- Pine Meadow Elementary — Christina (Tina) Schlauder
- Pleasant Grove Elementary — Amy Urban
- Ransom Middle — Angela Avery
- Scenic Heights Elementary — Janette Calder
- O. J. Semmes Elementary — Rickie Merritt
- Sherwood Elementary — Alicia Smith
- George Stone Technical College — Edward Sizemore
- A. K. Suter Elementary — Alison Link
- Success Academy — Carolyn Dejacimo Pillar
- J. M. Tate High — Karl King
- Ernest Ward Middle — Katie Roley
- Warrington Elementary — Alicia Abbuhl
- Warrington Middle — Caleb Lovely
- Booker T. Washington High — Barbie Spears
- C. A. Weis Elementary — Brianna Cooks
- West Florida High — Laura Rainey
- West Pensacola Elementary — Audra Livingston
- J. H. Workman Middle School — Helene Carrington
Pictured: The Golden Apple Award. File photo.
Large Portions Of Both Highway 29 And Nine Mile Projects Open To Traffic
October 14, 2021
Large portions of both the Highway 29 and Nine Mile Road constructions projects are now open to traffic, the Florida Department of Transportation said Wednesday.
All six lanes are now open on Highway 29 between I-10 and 9 1/2 Mile Road. Crews will continue paving work over the next few weeks and then complete final worklist items.
All four lanes of Nine Mile Road between Beulah and Pine Forest roads are also now open to traffic. Crews will continue placing the final, friction layer of asphalt throughout the month of October.
Pictured top: Highway 29 near West Devane Street with newly opened traffic lanes. Pictured below: Newly paved westbound travel lanes on Nine Mile Road near the Eleven Mile Creek Bridge. Photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
ECFR: Well Line Road Mobile Fire Caused By Electrical Malfunction
October 14, 2021
Investigators have determined a fire that damaged a Cantonment mobile home Tuesday afternoon was due to an electrical malfunction.
Escambia County Fire Rescue responded to the fire just after noon Tuesday in the 1000 block of Well Line Road.
Crews arrived to find light smoke showing from the trailer from a kitchen fire. The home suffered fire and smoke damage throughout, according to ECFR.
There were no injuries reported.
The Cantonment, Ensley, Molino and Beulah stations of Escambia Fire Rescue responded.
The home had smoke detectors, but they did not function, the fire department said. Free smoke detectors are available for Escambia County residents by calling (850) 595-HERO.
Century Awarded $35,000 Competitive Florida Partnership Grant From The State
October 14, 2021
Century, with the assistance of FloridaWest, was one of just eight small and rural communities in the state awarded a $35,000 Competitive Florida Partnership Grant.
The grant will be used to elevate the area’s education, training and skilled workforce to meet current industry and business demands. In April, the Century area had an unemployment rate of 12%, nearly three times that of Escambia County.
FloridaWest recently held a meeting to discuss the grant with partners including the town, Escambia County School District, Pensacola State College, CareerSource Escarosa and other local leaders.
“We don’t have a specific plan right now,” FloridaWest CEO Scott Luth said. “We are bringing the stakeholders together to create something and giving them the opportunity to say this is what we want to do.”
The grant plan will work to connect youth at area schools with business and industry.
The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity partner with communities to help them leverage this unique assets and set realistic goals. They will also work to connect the communities like Century with available state and federal resources.
Once a better-defined roadmap is in place for the grant, there will be a public outreach including two public meetings.
The grant was awarded on a cost reimbursement basis.
Pictured: Community partners discuss a $35,000 Competitive Florida Partnership Grant during a recent meeting in Century. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
It’s National School Lunch Week (And Jim Allen’s Cafeteria Is Looking Like Fall)
October 14, 2021
It’s National School Lunch Week, and the staff at Jim Allen Elementary School has made the cafeteria a festival fall place for students to enjoy their lunches. Photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
Dorothy Daniels Lister
October 14, 2021
Illustrious dancer and teacher Ms. Dorothy Daniels Lister, age 87, was lifted into the Lord’s embrace on Monday October 11, 2021, to dance with the angels.
Ms. Lister, a native Pensacolian and Pensacola High 1952 alumni, was head majorette in the PHS Marching Band. She developed her love of dance at age 4 from mentor Elvie DeMarko. After graduation she left home to study ballet in New York, where in 1954 she became a member and then soloist of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo appearing in ballets such as Swan Lake, Scheherazade, and Firebird. She traveled by bus with the company until 1958 when she married William W. Lister, a French Horn player with the orchestra. Making their home in NYC, she continued to dance with the Radio City Music Hall’s Corps de ballet, home of the famed Rockettes. She briefly returned home to Pensacola for the birth of daughter Cynthia in 1961.
Embarking on what was to become a six-decade long career in teaching dance, Miss Dorothy as she is so fondly referred to by her students, began at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Kingsboro College of the Performing Arts in 1965. She then progressed on to being head of the children’s department at the Joffrey Ballet School where she spent over 25 years. With her return to Pensacola in 1996 she instructed at Kaleidoscope (Pensacola Ballet). In 1998, she became Ballet Mistress with Northwest Florida Ballet staging ballets such as Giselle, Les Sylphides, Paquita, Swan Lake, and Coppelia, rehearsing the children for Nutcracker, teaching class, and sewing costumes. With her love of musical theatre and marching bands, she enjoyed choreographing musicals and rehearsing color guard for Tate High School with her sister as assistant. Her musical theater credits, just to name a few, include “George M,” “Here’s Where I Belong”, “Sweet Charity,” “Pajama Game”, “Dames at Sea”, South Pacific”, Fiddler on the Roof”, “Carousel” and “The King and I”. At the age of 44, she performed one final encore on Broadway in “Ballroom” by Michael Bennett.
Dorothy was also an author penning Conversations with Choreographers co-written with Svetlana McLee Grody. They interviewed well-known choreographers such as Michael Bennett, Tommy Tune, and Hermes Pan. She recorded her own ballet instruction videos featuring her children’s dance syllabus and appeared in the children’s book Going To My Ballet Class. She is also featured in numerous publications including Dance Teacher Now, Backstage, Emerald Coast, and the Pensacola News Journal. In 2004, she pursued another lifelong dream of hers by starting Dorothy’s Dance Plus, LLC. which she operated for 10 years having the slogan “Ballet for Those Who Try”. Upon closing her studio above Elebash’s in downtown Pensacola, she joined Emerald Coast Dance Conservatory in 2015, teaching her last classes this summer for NWFB and ECDC.
Miss Dorothy believed that everyone possessed the gift of dance within them, and steadfastly expressed her philosophy. “For each child, Dance belongs to them…no one can do it for them. They gain a respect for learning, and a respect for discipline, they develop better coordination and a confidence that will serve them no matter what they do later in life”. Just ask the hundreds of students whose lives have been changed for the better because of dancing.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Dr. James Palace and MaeBelle Gray Daniels, and husband, William W. Lister.
She is survived by her only daughter, Dr. Cynthia M. Dobek (Donald); sister, Beverly D. Reinschmidt; granddaughter, Deanna M. Sikorski (Jason); grandson, Michael G. Dobek (Andrea); and great granddaughters, Maybelle J. M. Sikorski, and Madalynn W. Dobek; nephew, Dr. Todd Stalnaker (Jocquilyn) and niece, Diane Stalnaker Charles (John).
Please join us to share your love, memories, and express condolences for Ms. Dorothy D. Lister at her visitation from 6:00pm-8:00pm Friday, October 15, 2021, at Harper-Morris Memorial Chapel, 2276 Airport Blvd., Pensacola, FL 32504. Masks are mandatory.
Please join us in a Celebration of Life memorializing the legendary Ms. Dorothy D. Lister at 1:30pm Saturday, October 16, 2021, at Gadsden Street United Methodist Church, 901 E. Gadsden St., Pensacola, FL 32501.