Community Archive

Dressed in pink with the words “Pody’s Posse” emblazoned on their shirts, teachers from Woodlawn Beach Middle School ran 13 miles in a race against breast cancer last month.

Santa Rosa County Emergency Management is offering free community shelter-in-place training followed by an exercise for first responders.

Sheriffs from Okaloosa, Walton, and Bay counties held a joint news conference March 6 in Shalimar to convey the latest in their fight to eradicate synthetic drugs from area businesses and to encourage students to have a safe spring break.

Attorney General Pam Bondi is encouraging Florida’s consumers to know their rights under Florida’s motor vehicle “Lemon Law.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced March 6 that one of her top priorities is a bill that will enhance Florida’s False Claims Act and better protect taxpayers from false or fraudulent claims seeking money from the State of Florida.

It warmed the cockles of this city boy’s heart when Coker, Ala.,-born Betty Adcock drawled that she’d been raised on a farm, and when I asked her to tell me details, she hit the cotton-pickin’ field  a-runnin’:

Howard “Stump” Young took his final ride on March 2 when he lost his battle with cancer following surgery.

Santa Rosa County commissioners completed their commission meeting on Feb. 28 in 18 minutes, approving all the items on the agenda.

The Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office recently became the first sheriff’s office in the state to introduce its own smartphone application. The free app is downloadable to iPhone, Android and iPad devices.

Nope, this Al Smith ain’t “that” Al Smith, and his brother, John Smith, ain’t “that” John Smith.