Vicki Hoff, manager of the Save Our Cats and Kittens (SOCKS) shelter in Fort Walton Beach, recently arrived at work one morning to find a box – wrapped in a garbage bag –sitting at the front door.
While the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission recently restructured the season structure for recreational scalloping, the outlook for that opportunity opening up in Northwest Florida in the near future isn’t the brightest.
Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi – About 20 years ago, an African Methodist Episcopal pastor placed his hands on a 7-year-old boy’s forehead. After a moment of reflection, he prophesied the boy would be a man of God. Today that boy is now 2nd Lt. William Hammond, an Air Force chaplain candidate completing his Master of Divinity.
Board of County Commissioners Chairman Rob Williamson continued his third annual listening tour with a July 12 meeting at the Navarre Beach Visitors Center.
The proposed location for a new county courthouse on Avalon Boulevard is owned by a Pensacola businessman who is trying to roughly double his 2009 investment of $550,000 in the 19-acre site.
As the first day of school approaches, negotiations of the master contract for compensation of Santa Rosa teachers and educational support staff continues — but progress was made July 10 toward a resolution.
