Within the next year, motorists making their way down U.S. Highway 98 in Gulf Breeze will no longer see powerlines strung above the roadway. The City of Gulf Breeze is taking on the task of placing a portion of U.S. 98’s powerlines underground through a project years in the making.
The Utility Underground Conversion Project, which was laid out in the 2018 community redevelopment plan, began to take off in 2021 when funding and planning began to come to fruition. The scope of the project is to convert 4,200 linear feet of above ground wire to underground and install LED lighting fixtures. The project will cover 1.1 miles and is expected to be complete in 2024.
An arrest has been made in the fatal weekend shooting that took place at the Cayo Grande apartment complex in Navarre.
Santa Rosa County sheriff’s deputies responded to a reported shooting at the 7700 block of Navarre Parkway at about 9:30 p.m. Sunday. Deputies discovered the body of a dead male who had been shot.
Residents across Navarre may be hearing a knock on the door very soon. Preserve Navarre is launching an informational, door-to-door outreach campaign to let people know about what incorporation could bring.
Preserve Navarre is a nonprofit organization devoted to incorporating Navarre, something which has been tried twice before (2006 and 2014) but to no avail. The organization has been active since the start of 2021.
While students and teachers had a week off from school during spring break, the folks at Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge were hard at work hosting a spring break camp for kids ages 8 to 13. Despite hosting camps before, this was the first time Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge had hosted one during spring break.
The purpose of the camps at Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge are to help educate youth on all things animalia, from biology to ecology to the dangers they face from humans and other animals.
Ellis Maurer loved sports and kids.
“He was the kind of guy who’d come in here with his case full of cards, ready to trade, and any kid who came in he’d ask, ‘Who’s your favorite team?’” remembered Mike Simpson, a co-owner of Northwest Florida Collectibles Show/Coins, Sportscards & Racing Collectibles in Gulf Breeze.
Tallahassee — With backing from Speaker Paul Renner, a House panel last week approved a bill that would lower the minimum age to buy rifles and other long guns in Florida from 21 to 18.
The bill (HB 1543) would reverse part of a 2018 law that set the minimum age at 21 after a gunman killed 17 students and faculty members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Nikolas Cruz, then 19, used a semi-automatic rifle to carry out the attack.
Developers plan to build a 16-story Hilton hotel/condominium building at 8469 Gulf Boulevard on Navarre Beach and, because the property’s lease is more than 40 years old, there apparently is very little Santa Rosa County can do about it.
The newest member of the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office K9 unit is named in honor of a longtime member of the agency.
Chief Deputy Joe McCurdy is retiring this summer after 33 years of service to the citizens of Santa Rosa County. In gratitude and recognition of McCurdy’s service, Sheriff Bob Johnson has named the new bloodhound Chief.
