Long-damaged Navarre Beach home to be repaired
Holley by the Sea fines county $1,000 for yard violations
It has been almost two years since Santa Rosa County bought a house in Holley by the Sea. Officials didn’t set out to buy the house.
The county bought the property for $275,000 because it was prone to flooding.
Navy to sample drinking water wells near NAS Whiting
The U.S. Navy is preparing to sample drinking water wells near Naval Air Station (NAS) Whiting Field beginning in March.
The Navy will be sampling drinking water wells within a designated sampling area for certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.
Wanted: Four board members to fill five-member HBTS board
Water management district lends Calkins a hand
Santa Rosa County District 3 Commissioner James Calkins floated his “Protecting Water and Saving Jobs Initiative” as a supplement to the Comprehensive Plan borrow pit expansion amendment that the county now seems to be abandoning.
However, the initiative could become part of what the county does next, if commissioners vote Feb. 25 2021, to drop the borrow pit issue as it is currently.
Golf course survived 2020, future planning underway
Holley Navarre Water System board members received updates on the Club at Hidden Creek course at their monthly meeting Feb. 16.
The unaudited 2020 year to date financials included the news that there were about 7,000 fewer rounds played that year than in 2019.
Community members included in developing strategic plan
The public is invited to attend or share their opinions on the direction Santa Rosa County should take moving forward.
A strategic planning workshop will be held Tuesday, Feb. 23 beginning at 9 a.m. for the Board of County Commissioners.
School quarantine process modified slightly
Gulf Breeze, Pensacola to connect again in March
Officials: Code enforcement needs some ‘teeth’
Santa Rosa County growth pains include garbage and construction materials dumping along roads, land clearing erosion control, and poor maintenance of flood prevention ponds.
To mitigate, if not stop, pollution caused by some homeowners and businesses, one resident at a recent board of county commissioners working session admonished the commissioners to “use the only hammer the county has” – fines.