Superintendent Hanna has recommended the following school leaders as new principals for the 2025-2026 school year to the Leon School Board. Leon High School—Michael Bryan is retiring after a career of service and Scotty Crowe will be taking over as principal of Leon High School. Scotty Crowe was most recently the principal of Gilchrist Elementary […]
On Tuesday, May 13, the Leon County Commission voted to award the contract for the Amtrak Station Visitor Center Building Repair project to H.A. Contracting Corp. in the amount of $2,160,000. On May 10, 2024, Leon County experienced three simultaneous tornado outbreaks causing widespread damage across Tallahassee-Leon County and the Big Bend region. One of […]
On Wednesday, the city commission voted to adopt staff’s recommendation to award the Griffin Heights Grocery Store Construction contract to Tip Top Construction. The project is slated to cost $1,287,040 and will be funded using Neighborhood First funds from the Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Affairs Department’s Capital Budget. In response to the requests of Griffin […]
During the May 8th Blueprint Intergovernmental Agency (IA) budget workshop, elected officials approved a plan to fund an air service incentive proposal. The IA voted 10-2 to approve a plan via an expedited process that would cost $670,000 per year. Leon County Commissioners Christian Caban and Bill Proctor voted against the item. Caban stated that […]
Tallahassee’s two major hospitals recently received grades in the Hospital Safety Grade report released by The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit organization reporting on quality, safety and transparency in the U.S. health system. Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH) and HCA Florida Capital Hospital both received a “B” grade in the spring 2025 ratings report. Leapfrog assigns […]
On April 25, Leon County Government and the Tallahassee-Leon County Office of Economic Opportunity connected more than 1,000 high school students to local skilled workforce opportunities at the 10th Annual Leon Works Expo. Students from Leon, Wakulla, Gadsden, Jefferson, Calhoun, Madison, and Taylor counties explored high-demand career paths and engaged directly with nearly 80 employers […]
Provided below are the news briefs from the April 22, 2025, Leon County School Board meeting. Items Considered by the Board Item 19.01: The Board voted unanimously to advertise amendments to Policy 0169.1 – Public Participation at Board Meetings, for a public hearing and adoption on June 17, 2025. The amendments require -in part – that […]
Four months into 2025, crime incident data published daily by the Tallahassee Police Department shows that total crime incidents have declined by 37.2% when compared to incident data from January thru April in 2024. The drop was driven by a 40.6% decline in property crime. However, auto thefts and auto burglaries increased dramatically – approximately […]
During the May 8th Blueprint Intergovernmental Agency (IA) budget workshop, elected officials will consider a proposal to fund air service financial incentives in the amount of $670,000 annually beginning in 2026. The proposal comes after public criticism of high fares and the loss of JetBlue service at the Tallahassee airport. The proposed IA FY 2026 […]
On Monday, LCSO released the details related to the arrest of an individual for firing shots at a dog that allegedly bit the shooters child. The incident took place on Saturday afternoon in the Glen at Golden Eagle, a Northeast Leon County neighborhood. The press release stated that, “upon arrival, deputies made contact with the […]