The following update is provided as part of the Navy’s ongoing private drinking water testing around Naval Air Station (NAS) Whiting Field and its Outlying Landing Fields (OLFs) in Florida and Alabama for the emerging, national environmental issue of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances). Based on sampling results from private drinking water wells in the sampling areas, the Navy is expanding the sampling areas near NAS Whiting Field, OLF Barin and OLF Wolf.
Caring and Sharing of South Santa Rosa County is grateful to Gulf Breeze High School and Navarre High School for their school spirit and support in sponsoring another ‘Caring and Sharing Beach Soup Bowl Challenge’ by competing in a collection of nonperishable food items.
The lines creating the five electoral districts in Santa Rosa may be redrawn by the commissioners to evenly divide the population between the districts.
The Gulf Breeze Police Department has matched DNA obtained from a sexual assault victim to the man who employed her. Marco Antonio Girao was arrested Oct. 29 on a charge of sexual battery for the assault that took place at his home in late July, according to the warrant affidavit from the police department.
Motorists can expect intermittent lane closures from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 6 as crews perform concrete operations, according to the Florida Department of Transportation.
Crews will begin major roadway widening and reconstruction activities on the $70.4 million U.S. 98 widening and improvement project from Bayshore Road to Portside Drive in Santa Rosa County, according to a Friday morning email from the Florida Department of Transportation.
The Santa Rosa Island Authority (SRIA) has updated the flight schedule for Friday and Saturday’s Blue Angels Homecoming Air Show performances. The updated schedule reflects that Airbase Georgia will replace its F4U Corsair with a North American P-51 Mustang, a World War II-era long-range fighter plane, and now includes the addition of a U.S. Navy F-35 Lightning II demonstration to the air show.
