News Archive

Bring the family out for a wonderful day of food and fun! On Sept. 16, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., St. Sylvester’s Catholic Church will host the Smokin in the Square BBQ Cookoff, an annual event to raise money for charity. This year, the event will send money to two charities, Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida and Little Sisters of the Poor Sacred Heart Residence.

On Wednesday, Sept. 6, retired K9 Idgie crossed the rainbow bridge.

More than 600,000. That’s how many people go missing in the United States each year, according to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons (NamUS) database. While most of those missing persons are recovered, either dead or alive, (89 to 92 percent according to NamUS) there are still plenty of people who remain missing for years. One such missing person is Tiffany Daniels, a then 25 year old woman from the Pensacola area.

Santa Rosa County staff members are preparing a request for proposals about what to do with the old courthouse in downtown Milton, according to County Administrator DeVann Cook.

Although the new south end high school won’t be in class until 2026, DAG Architects, the firm charged with designing it, unveiled plans for the school’s sports complex at the Santa Rosa County School Board’s Sept. 7 meeting. A sports complex is phase III of the project. The first phase is the early site package to include curbing and groundwork. Phase II is the building of the high school itself.

Students in the UWF Dr. Muhammad Harunur Rashid Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering are working with the Air Force Research Laboratory to improve battlefield intelligence gathering by creating a machine-learning algorithm.

A Marine Corps leader was arrested Sept. 2 in Santa Rosa County and charged with cruelty toward a child and battery with domestic violence after he allegedly choked a child.

Michael Masters, 40, had been serving as an executive officer at Parris Island with the recruit training regiment. Parris Island is the main Marine training installation for Marine recruits east of the Mississippi River.

Last week, the Santa Rosa County Zoning Board reviewed proposed changes to the county’s Land Development Code for the last time before the final draft goes before the Board of County Commissioners for final approval.

AT&T customers in Santa Rosa County trying to reach the Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office, Milton Police Department, Gulf Breeze Police Department and Santa Rosa County Fire/EMS dispatch using an AT&T landline or cell phone will not be able to reach these agencies on the non-emergency, administrative phone numbers.

A storage lot on East Bay Blvd. (County Road 399) is set to become an RV park, according to Santa Rosa County Planning and Zoning. The storage lot, which is operated as DB Storage, is located at 8352 East Bay Blvd.