Community Archive

Walking up to the towering Blue Angels Hanger at the Pensacola Naval Aviation Station Friday, July 15, I had one goal for my media ride aboard the show teams impressive C-130 airplane Fat Albert.

Although City of Gulf Breeze leaders are considering the excuses made recently by Tiger Point Golf Club’s managing tenant for the facility’s deteriorated fairways and greens, they have hired a landscape architect to scrutinize conditions there.

Relocating Santa Rosa County’s Exceptional Student Education (ESE) administrative offices will cost roughly $3.8 million according to documentation presented to the Santa Rosa County School Board Thursday, July 7.

While argument over the location and funding of a new county courthouse is in full swing, the fate of the old courthouse remains unclear.

Longtime Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce member Ralph Agnew helped spearhead an effort to have the Florida Department of Transportation do a traffic analysis in areas along U.S. Highway 98 that, as Agnew states, “have been prone to accidents for years.”

Santa Rosa County Emergency Management communications are getting an upgrade this month thanks to a new early warning system and App initiated by the Florida Department of Emergency Management.

Construction of Gulf Breeze Zoo’s new expanded aviary is underway and could open for visitors as early as the end of July.

At the top of the travel itinerary it says, “Take pride in how far you have come and have faith in how far you will go.”  Five Navarre High School 2016 graduates are going far, both literally and in their life plans.  The teens are embarking on the trip of a lifetime, described by them as a coming-of-age trip of sorts.  Riley Roberson, Patrick Keele, Jeff Holland, Jacob Blea and Gabe Morrill left Friday morning at 2 a.m. on a 20-day journey with their sights set on a few national parks, including Mt. Rushmore, Yosemite, Mt. Zion and Olympic National Park.  First stop is Kansas City, Mo. for some world-famous barbecue then it’s off to The Badlands in South Dakota.  The group will travel to Wyoming, Washington, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and back home again camping all along the way.

Entering into Open Books second-hand bookstore is a risk Wednesday nights, when volunteers swarm for the weekly book packing.

Police video cameras are getting considerable credit of late for recording accounts of crimes and clashes with civilians, and now a Yellow Cab driver and his recording acumen are being applauded for helping apprehend two hit-and-run suspects in Gulf Breeze.