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2010’s Best Photos: May, June

All this week, we are looking back at some of our favorite and most interesting photos of 2010. Today, we are featuring photos from May and June.

(For January and February, click here.)
(For March and April, click here.)

June 23, 2010.  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.

A month after being found unresponsive and floating face down in a North Escambia pool, Maggie Scott, 3, was fully recovered.

Firefighters battle a barn fire near Bratt. The fire was believed to have been started by lightning.

A rare site: A passenger train travels through North Escambia during May as part of a railway group’s tour.

Northview and West Florida met in a Spring football game.

The Ernest Ward Middle School Drama Team reenacted the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima during Atmore’s Veterans Day Parade.

Brothers Victor and Austin Beck remember Billy G. Beck III during a memorial service on Pensacola Beach. Beck was struck by at least three vehicles while walking on Chemstrand Road.

Fishing boats sit idle at Joe Patti Seafood in Pensacola following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

A train caboose in Flomaton was moved from the town’s park to the Flomaton Area Railroad Museum.

The 36th annual Pen Wheels Fishing Rodeo was held in Walnut Hill, providing free fishing for disabled persons.

Joshua Herring, 23, of Pensacola was killed in this single vehicle accident on Pine Barren Road.

President Barack Obama defended his administration’s efforts in response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill during a visit to the Florida Panhandle in June.

Dozens of children took part in the Summer Reading Series at the Century Branch Library.

Over 4,000 people braved the sweltering heat to attend the second annual Blueberry Jamboree Saturday at the Barrineau Park Community Center.

Oil boom stretches into Pensacola Bay in June.

Escambia County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Unit agents question the occupants of a home on Highway 4A after serving a search warrant.

Escambia County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Wes Brown throws a lasso at a horse during the execution of a search warrant at the Highway 97 property.

130 members of the Northview High School Class of 2011 graduated in early June.

A K-9 team searches for a burglary suspect in Molino in early June.

Escambia County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Division Investigators Rene Reguindin (left) and Heath Jackson (right) perform field tests on a suspected active meth lab found in Davisville.