The Florida Department of Health in Santa Rosa County (DOH-Santa Rosa is reminding residents and visitors to use caution when on the beach or in waters with high concentrations of red tide. Low levels of red tide have been detected in sampling conducted from Navarre Beach Pier.
Updated: The National Weather Service has issued a High Surf Advisory along the entire coast overnight into Thursday. The highest surf is expected along the western Florida panhandle. High surf conditions are expected to persist through Friday afternoon before subsiding Friday night. A high risk of rip currents begins tonight and will persist through Friday night.
Midway Water System released a statement this morning regarding the cross-connection incident which caused unsafe potable water conditions for hundreds of residents in the Soundside Drive area. The incident has been ongoing for nearly two weeks and is still being rectified.
After District 3 Commissioner James Calkins provided ideas to improve the Local Mitigation Strategy (LMS) taskforce during the Oct. 12 commission meeting, an LMS presentation to the commissioners on Oct. 21 provided a brief recap of LMS’s purpose and its taskforce’s contribution to the county.
The Santa Rosa Island Authority (SRIA) has released the full schedule for the annual Blue Angels Homecoming Air Show, November 3-6 on beautiful Pensacola Beach, celebrating its 75th anniversary this season.
State Attorney Ginger Bowden Madden announced Monday that on Oct. 20, Dean Bruno Lainhart was convicted by a jury in Santa Rosa County of two counts of capital sexual battery upon a person less than 12 by a person over the age of 18, sexual battery while in a position of familial or custodial authority and lewd and lascivious molestation on a person older than 12 but younger than 16.
An undercover officer who went into four local massage parlors was offered more than a just a massage at all of them, according to Santa Rosa Sheriff Bob Johnson.
