Spout off: What are your thoughts on legalizing marijuana?
Spout off: What are your thoughts on legalizing marijuana?
Mark Boltz Oppose it. Sharp people are assets and assets have value. Smoking pot doesn’t keep you sharp. Tom Barlow Oppose it. Just a money grab to make up for lost revenue of tobacco sales. Dustin Austin For it. Free up LEOs and jails for real criminals. Save and make a lot of money! Amanda … read more
Higher standards are not double standards
Higher standards are not double standards
At some point in a person’s life, a choice has to be made: What do I want to do with my life? Some choose to graduate high school and go into a trade profession. Others decide a four, or six year degree is their best option. But it’s at that point in their life that … read more
Sound vision
Sound vision
A group of local leaders share a vision to clean up Santa Rosa Sound, and the plan includes stopping the daily discharge of effluent into the waterway and eliminating septic tanks along its shoreline. “We have too much of our effluent going into the Sound and the bay — and not just in Navarre and … read more
Deputy jailed for child abuse
Deputy jailed for child abuse
A Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Deputy has been placed on administrative leave after he was booked into Santa Rosa County Jail on child abuse charges last week. SRSO Deputy Joshua White, 31, was arrested last Friday following an investigation by the sheriff’s office of alleged child abuse in which an individual came forward alleging the … read more
Armed robber strikes Dollar General
Armed robber strikes Dollar General
The Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office is trying to determine who robbed the Navarre Dollar General, located at 9576 Navarre Pkwy., at gunpoint Tuesday night. According to SRSO Public Information Officer Sgt. Richard Aloy, deputies responded to the retail store location at around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in reference to the robbery. Deputies were able to … read more
Citizens pay respects to fallen hero
Citizens pay respects to fallen hero
South end residents gathered along Hwy. 98 Tuesday morning to pay their respects to Staff Sgt. Forrest Sibley, of Pensacola, as his funeral motorcade was driven through the area on the way to Pensacola. Sibley, 31, was gunned down Aug. 26 at a vehicle checkpoint in Afghanistan. Capt. Matthew Roland was also killed in the … read more
City supporting installation of U-turn intersection near GBHS
City supporting installation of U-turn intersection near GBHS
The City of Gulf Breeze is finally cutting ties with one of the most accident prone cut throughs in their jurisdiction, and in the same note is eyeing the possibility of allowing the Florida Department of Transportation to add a U-turn lane for eastbound traffic near the same intersection. The city passed a resolution at … read more
County approves site for Blackhawk Memorial
County approves site for Blackhawk Memorial
To pay respect to the 11 servicemen who perished back in March after the helicopter they were training on went down in the sound, Leadership Santa Rosa Class 29 is stepping up to help erect a memorial in Navarre Park , and is already on the road to raising the money for the project. Back … read more
BOCC eyes transportation needs
BOCC eyes transportation needs
Santa Rosa County is entitled to a portion of ECAT and Okaloosa County transit money, Commissioners said at the September 8 commission meeting, and the Board’s studying ways to leverage those funds for local service. Santa Rosa falls into both the Escambia and Ft. Walton Beach urbanized areas. Those areas receive State and Federal grant … read more
Tempers high at budget meeting
Tempers high at budget meeting
Santa Rosa commissioners approved a final 2016 budget Tuesday night; but things got tense when two county employees chastised the Board for holding out on County worker raises while Commissioners received one. “Did you all get raises?” Clerk of Courts employee Joan Malley asked the Board. Commissioners affirmed they had received raises. Officials noted that … read more
