Gulf Breeze Will Do Announces 2021 Grant Winners
Gulf Breeze Will Do Announces 2021 Grant Winners
Gulf Breeze Will Do, a women’s philanthropic group, awarded more than $35,000 in grants at its annual meeting on November 14, 2021. Gulf Breeze Will Do (GBWD) was born out of a group of Gulf Breeze women who formed an organization that could serve as a funding tool to help other nonprofit organizations and individuals … read more
Eglin firefighters provide aid, save lives during Operation Allies Refuge
Eglin firefighters provide aid, save lives during Operation Allies Refuge
When Tech. Sgt. Travis Cumpston approached the unconscious 5-year-old girl, he said his first thought was she reminded him of his own daughter. The deployed 96th Test Wing firefighter, on board a just-arrived C-17 full of Afghanistan refugees, tried to revive the girl as her panicked mother watched behind him. With no response, Cumpston picked … read more
PFAS Release Confirmed Within Well Field Protection Area
PFAS Release Confirmed Within Well Field Protection Area
The U.S. Navy has confirmed a PFAS release area at OLF Santa Rosa, which is located inside the Santa Rosa County Well Field Protection Area. OLF Santa Rosa is located just south of Interstate 10 off Hwy. 87 S in East Milton. Information about when the release(s) took place have not yet been provided, but … read more
$985K Shoreline Park Wetlands Trail Boardwalk Project Starts This Week
$985K Shoreline Park Wetlands Trail Boardwalk Project Starts This Week
The Shoreline Park Wetlands Trail Boardwalk Project construction will start this week, and a ribbon-cutting is planned for the Summer of 2022. The Wetlands Trail Boardwalk will provide a direct connection between the 4-mile multi-use loop (under construction), Gulf Breeze Community Center, Shoreline Park South, wetlands and Santa Rosa Sound. Environmental education opportunities will be … read more
Navy expands drinking water investigation near NAS Whiting Field
Navy expands drinking water investigation near NAS Whiting Field
The U.S. Navy is expanding the area the to test drinking water wells during its ongoing private drinking water testing around Naval Air Station Whiting Field and its Outlying Landing Fields (OLFs) in Florida and Alabama for the emerging, national environmental issue of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances). Based on sampling results from private drinking … read more
Gulf Breeze Zoo Welcomes Two Maned Wolves to its Pack
Gulf Breeze Zoo Welcomes Two Maned Wolves to its Pack
Gulf Breeze Zoo is excited to announce a new species to its grounds with the recent arrival of a sibling pair of maned wolves named Stella and Cieza. As representatives of their declining South American canine species, Stella and Cieza will play vital roles in protecting the future of maned wolves from their new habitat in … read more
Children’s book a tale of underwater adventure along the Gulf Coast
Children’s book a tale of underwater adventure along the Gulf Coast
Todd Fisher is an entrepreneur and healthcare executive with an alter ego — children’s book author. He’s just published Louie’s Great Race, the first in the series of the Briny Bunch Tales, all of which take place at popular underwater locations in our own Gulf of Mexico. “Louie’s Great Race started 12 years ago as a … read more
Suspect Allegedly Posed As Surgeon on Dating Sites, Defrauded Women of >$750K
Suspect Allegedly Posed As Surgeon on Dating Sites, Defrauded Women of >$750K
Brian Brainard Wedgeworth, 46, formerly of Tallahassee, Florida, and Center Point, Alabama, was arrested in Tennessee on charges of wire fraud, mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering. The indictment alleges that, between October 2016, and March 2021, Wedgeworth devised a scheme to defraud money and property by means of material false and fraudulent … read more
Santa Rosa County Wins $499K to Build and Promote Green Stormwater Infrastructure
Santa Rosa County Wins $499K to Build and Promote Green Stormwater Infrastructure
Santa Rosa County has been awarded $499,000 through the U.S. EPA Gulf of Mexico Division’s Healthy and Resilient Gulf of Mexico. The funding will be used to construct green stormwater infrastructure at the County Administrative Complex, which will be used to demonstrate practices aimed to address and improve impaired waters within the Pensacola Bay Watershed. … read more
GBPD Nabs Suspected Juvenile Drug Dealer Near School
GBPD Nabs Suspected Juvenile Drug Dealer Near School
The Gulf Breeze Police Department on Friday, November 5 arrested a juvenile on multiple drug-related charges within 1,000 feet of a school. GBPD says they were tipped off about the suspect’s car, which was parked in the former Subway restaurant parking lot during school hours. Officers located the vehicle and detected a “strong odor” of … read more
