News Archive

The Shoreline Park Wetlands Trail Boardwalk Project broke ground last week. A ribbon-cutting is planned for the Summer of 2022.

Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office deputies are at a Shell gas station on State Road 87, responding to a shooting. Spokesman, Sgt. Rich Aloy, said he was on his way to the station but that it was his initial understanding that one person had been shot.

In light of many companies choosing to enforce a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on its employees and the federal government doing the same, District 3 Commissioner James Calkins brought a motion to the board to send a letter to Santa Rosa Medical Center detailing the BOCC’s opposition to vaccine mandates.

With the year coming to a close, the Board of County Commissioners must reorganize by voting for a new chairman and vice-chairman.

The board elected District 2 Commissioner Bob Cole as chairman and District 3 Commissioner James Calkins as vice-chairman during the commission work session on Thursday.

Following its review of the decennial census, Santa Rosa County District Schools has proposed redrawing school board member voting districts to adjust for increased growth rates in different parts of the county.

A two-car crash occurred just after 7 a.m. on County Road 184 (Berryhill Road) just west of Regina’s Way in Milton. According to a press release from Florida Highway Patrol, a sedan driven by a couple in their 70s with a nine-year-old passenger failed to navigate the roadway curve and crossed the center line.

The Holley-Navarre Water System (HNWS) Board of Directors held their monthly meeting Nov. 16 at The Club at Hidden Creek. The meeting ran for nearly two hours and discussed a variety of topics, including renovations to the HNWS building, new members, the upcoming annual meeting, elections and department achievements for 2021.

The Milton City Council met Nov. 9 to appoint a replacement to fill the unexpired term of David Richardson, who resigned last month due to health issues.

A television station in Dothan, Alabama, has reported that a person of interest in Sunday’s Navarre Beach homicide has been taken into custody. John Patrick Guillebeau, 60, of Panama City was taken into custody Wednesday, according to reporting from News 4 WTVY.

Sgt. Rich Aloy of the Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office confirmed that a suspect was in custody for the death of 67-year-old Victor Stephen Trial. Trial was found dead just inside his fifth floor unit at Pearl Condominiums.

Here’s the text of Rep. Matt Gaetz’s letter, also signed by eight other House members: