Community Archive

For inmates in Santa Rosa’s correctional system, there is new hope for life after serving time thanks to the Work Release and Second Chance Outreach, Re-entry and Education Development (SCORE) programs.

The Santa Rosa County School Board gave the go ahead Thursday, July 22 for the $1.45 million purchase of an old grocery store building in Milton to replace the district’s Berryhill Administrative Complex.

Micky Hernandez once rode down Highway 87 on a motorcycle dressed as Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. It wasn’t as much about showing off his Christmas spirit as it was about doing it for a good cause.

Certain moments stand out for Capt. Katie Higgins, the first female pilot in Blue Angels’ history.

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.