Football Games Tonight At Northview, Tate, Ernest Ward
September 6, 2012
Three North Escambia schools have football games scheduled for tonight.
Northview High School’s junior varsity has added a game to the schedule. The JV Chiefs will host Pensacola Catholic at 6:30 p.m. in Bratt.
The Tate High Aggie Bowl will kick off at 6:30, with the Aggie junior varsity taking on the freshman team.
Ernest Ward Middle School will open their season at 6 p.m. at home in Walnut Hill against Perdido.
Pictured: Football action at Ernest Ward Middle School last year. NorthEscambia.com file photo, click to enlarge.
Decreasing Rain Chances
September 5, 2012
Here is your official North Escambia area forecast:
- Tonight: Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and thunderstorms through the night. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
- Thursday: Mostly sunny. Slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
- Thursday Night: Partly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
- Friday: Mostly sunny. Slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. East winds around 5 mph becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
- Friday Night: Partly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
- Saturday: Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs around 90. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
- Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
- Sunday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
- Sunday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
- Monday: Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
- Monday Night: Clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
- Tuesday: Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
Century Council Decides New Fence Height Restrictions
September 5, 2012
The Town of Century has developed a plan for cutting back the height of fences allowed in front yards around the town — a plan that is a mix of Century’s current code and regulations that are already in place in the unincorporated areas of Escambia County.
The Century Town Council introduced an ordinance Monday night that would adopt Escambia County’s current standards that limit the height of a solid fence in front of a single family residence to three feet and a chain link or other transparent fence to a four foot height. The fence height for a corner lot would be limited to two feet as to not obstruct the view of traffic. For the purposes of the ordinance, the height of a hedge or shrubbery will be regulated as a solid fence.
Fences in the side, or rear yard of a home may not exceed eight feet, which is no change from Century’s current restrictions.
The ordinance will be up for a second reading and a public hearing on September 17. If adopted, the new fence law becomes effective immediately. To read the complete proposed ordinance, click here.
Mayor Freddie McCall said residents with existing fences that violate the new ordinance, if passed, can ask the town council for a variance.
“We need to make sure we treat everybody fairly,” council members Sandra McMurray Jackson said. “We’ve just got be sure that we don’t have anything to come back and slap us in the face…everybody that has got a high fence in front of their house is going to think that my fence is just like his (the one approved for a variance).”
Pictured top: (L-R) Mayor Freddie McCall and council members Gary Riley, Ann Brooks and Sandra McMurray Jackson at Monday night’s Century Town Council meeting. Council members Jacke Johnston and Annie Savage were absent from the meeting. NorthEscambia.com photo, click to enlarge.
Northview Schedules JV Football Game Vs. Catholic For Thursday Night
September 5, 2012
The junior varsity Northview Chiefs have added a football game this Thursday to their schedule.
The JV Chiefs will host Pensacola Catholic at 6:30 p.m. in Bratt.
The season opener for the junior varsity Chiefs last week at West Florida High School was canceled due to Hurricane Isaac.
Flash Flood Warning
September 4, 2012
The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for…
northern Escambia County in northwest Florida…
northwestern Santa Rosa County in northwest Florida…
southwestern Conecuh County in south central Alabama…
western Escambia County in south central Alabama…
southwestern Monroe County in south central Alabama…
north central Baldwin County in southwest Alabama…
southeastern Clarke County in southwest Alabama…
* until 930 PM CDT
* at 327 PM CDT…very heavy rainfall was indicated over the
warned area and radar estimates show 1.5 to 2.5 inches of rainfall
has occurred over the past hour. An additional 1 to 2 inches is
possible before mid evening. This will likely cause flash
flooding in the warned area.
* Locations impacted include…
Poarch creek reservation… Flomaton…
century… i65 and CR 47… i65 and al 287…
Uriah… Megargel… i65 and CR 6…
i65 and al 41…
Precautionary/preparedness actions…
A Flash Flood Warning means flooding is imminent or occurring. Seek
higher ground immediately. Do not drive or walk into areas where
water crosses a Road. Turn around – don’t drown!
Keep The Umbrella Handy; Flash Flood Watch Issued
September 4, 2012
There is a flash flood watch in effect for today
Here is your official North Escambia area forecast:
- Today: Showers and thunderstorms. Highs around 90. Southwest winds around 5 mph becoming 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
- Tonight: Mostly cloudy. Showers and thunderstorms likely. Lows in the mid 70s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
- Wednesday: Mostly cloudy. Showers and thunderstorms likely in the morning…then chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
- Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy in the evening becoming partly cloudy. Chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. West winds around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
- Thursday: Mostly sunny. Chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. North winds around 5 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
- Thursday Night: Partly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
- Friday: Mostly sunny. Chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
- Friday Night: Partly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
- Saturday: Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
- Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
- Sunday: Mostly sunny. Slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
Century Council To Hold Workshops, Meetings
September 4, 2012
The Town of Century will hold a series of meetings this afternoon and a special workshop on Thursday.
At 5:30 p.m., a Citizens Advisory Task Force will hold a meeting to discuss submitting an application for a Community Development Block Grant.
At 6 p.m., the council will hold a workshop to discuss a Community Development Block Grant housing assistance plan.
At 7 p.m., the council will hold their regular first meeting of the month, rescheduled from Monday due to the Labor Day holiday on Monday.
On Thursday, the council will hold a Fourth Budget Workshop at 3 p.m. to finalize the town’s fiscal year 2012-2013 budget.
All meetings and workshops are open to the public and will be held at the Century Town Haoo, 7995 North Century Boulevard.
Focus Now Turns To Democrats, Obama In Charlotte
September 4, 2012
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — As Democrats gather here this week to officially nominate President Barack Obama for a second term, their national convention is expected to have a strikingly different tone than last week’s Republican celebration.
In Tampa last week, GOP speakers and nominee Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, tried to use their nationally-broadcast platform to remind voters of the struggling economy and give them a reason to reverse course in hopes of turning things around.
By contrast, Democrats are expected to try to make the case that Republican policies were responsible for the financial crisis that sparked the Great Recession to begin with, and that Obama has things headed in the right direction and deserves a chance to see things through.
That case might already have been made more difficult when Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, a Democrat, told CBS’ Bob Schieffer this weekend that Americans weren’t better off than they were four years ago.
The convention is also expected to have less of a Florida feel than its Republican counterpart, in part because the GOP confab was held in Tampa and in part because there are fewer Democratic statewide elected officials than Republicans in Florida.
But Democrats will be keeping an eye on U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, whose seat has turned into one of several the party hopes will allow it to hold onto its Senate majority. And former Gov. Charlie Crist, who bolted the Republican Party in 2010 and endorsed Obama in an op-ed piece in the Tampa Bay Times last week, is reportedly scheduled to address the convention.
State delegates are also expected to begin sizing up potential gubernatorial candidates for 2014, when Democrats hope Gov. Rick Scott’s dismal approval ratings will give them a chance to win the Governor’s Mansion for the first time since Lawton Chiles was elected in 1994.
Florida, however, will still be center stage. Republicans have conceded that a win for Romney in the electoral college becomes an almost impossible task if Obama carries Florida, and the president’s path to 270 electoral votes is also far easier with the state than without it.
That helps explain why Florida Republicans were chosen to deliver some of the more pointed criticisms of Obama from the podium in Tampa, criticisms that Obama will have to trump this week.
“Hope and change has become divide and conquer,” said U.S. Sen Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who was chosen to introduce Romney before his acceptance speech.
Perhaps ironically, the Obama campaign could try to focus more attention on the president’s foreign policy, a weak point when he ran against U.S. Sen John McCain, a Vietnam veteran, in 2008.
In his weekly address, Obama gave hints of how he might try to thread the needle between highlighting foreign policy achievements — the killing of Osama bin Laden, the end of the war in Iraq, the NATO operation that toppled Muammar Gaddhafi and the winding down of the war in Afghanistan — while projecting a forward-looking message about the next four years.
“As we turn the page on a decade of war, it’s time to do some nation-building here at home,” Obama said. “ … It’s time to build a nation that lives up to the ideals that so many Americans have fought for — a nation where they can realize the dream they sacrificed to protect.”
Still, the Obama campaign has signaled that it will not necessarily let up on its efforts to paint Romney as a political chameleon focused on helping the wealthy.
“The goal of our convention is to bring the choice in this election into sharp focus,” deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter said on a conference call last week.
But the campaign also hopes to make a potentially tricky case: That while even Democrats admit that the pace of the recovery is not as fast as it perhaps should be, Obama’s policies have paid off in helping to save the automobile industry and extend health care to millions of Americans.
“The country’s gone through a difficult period together, but we’ve made a difference,” said David Axelrod, one of the campaign’s chief strategists.
And Cutter noted that the 12 million jobs Romney promised to create in his speech to the convention matched the current Congressional Budget Office projections for job growth anyway.
“That wasn’t exactly bold leadership,” she said.
Labor Day Forecast
September 3, 2012
Here is your official North Escambia area forecast:
- Monday Night: Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
- Tuesday: Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs around 90. Southwest winds around 5 mph becoming 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
- Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Southwest winds around 5 mph in the evening becoming light. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
- Wednesday: Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs around 90. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
- Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
- Thursday: Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
- Thursday Night: Partly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
- Friday: Mostly sunny. Chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
- Friday Night: Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
- Saturday: Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs around 90. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
- Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows around 70. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
- Sunday: Mostly sunny. Slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
Century To Cut Allowable Fence Heights To Cut Crime
September 2, 2012
The Town of Century will consider an ordinance Tuesday night to cut back the height allowed for privacy fences in the town — partially in an attempt to cut back on crime.
Century Mayor Freddie McCall said he wants the town council to consider adopting the same fence ordinance already in place for residents in unincorporated Escambia County. McCall said four Escambia County Sheriff’s deputies have asked him to consider the ordinance because it would be a “great help to them fighting crime”.
McCall said at a recent Century Town Council meeting when a resident has a high, solid privacy fence in front of their home “they are hiding something”.
The mayor said Escambia County’s fence ordinance limits the height of a solid fence in front of a residence to three feet and a chain link to a four foot height. Escambia’s ordinance allows for a fence to be up to six feet high along the side and rear yard of a residence. To view Escambia County’s fence ordinance, click here.
The Century council is set to consider the fence ordinance during their regular meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Pictured: The Century Town Council. NorthEscambia.com photo, click to enlarge.