News Archive

Do you ever get the feeling it rains every day?

This summer, you might be right.

District 3 zoning board member Sam Mullins emphatically resigned from his post during Tuesday’s BOCC meeting in opposition to the commissioners’ land development code decisions.

After over four years of service to Santa Rosa County, on Tuesday, July 13, County Administrator Dan Schebler submitted a letter to voluntarily terminate his employment agreement with Santa Rosa County. This will take place in 90 days.

A Holley Navarre Water System well that experienced a mechanical pump failure is being flushed, disinfected and having key mechanical components replaced.

Just three hours before a BOCC meeting that included a Guardian Program resolution on the agenda, Superintendent Dr. Karen Barber and Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson made a joint press release announcing the Coach Aaron Feis Guardian Program will not currently be implemented in the county.

On July 9, the Holley Navarre Wastewater Treatment Plant overflowed, dumping roughly 5,800 gallons of untreated wastewater over 55 minutes.

The 1st Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field will be conducting an emergency response exercise July 14 to maintain contingency readiness. There will be an increase in emergency response activity. Response vehicles, first responders, and giant voice notifications will be seen and heard throughout the day

During his monthly Zoom meeting, District 4 Commissioner Dave Piech announced that a construction firm bid will be voted on to complete construction on Edgewood Drive.

The Florida Association of Counties (FAC) presented Santa Rosa County Commissioner Robert “Bob” Cole with the Presidential Advocacy Award for his work during the 2021 Legislative Session at its recent annual conference in Orange County, Florida.

State Attorney Ginger Bowden Madden announced that on July 9 a Santa Rosa County jury found, James Johnston Stevens, a 36-year-old Milton man, guilty of three counts of sexual battery on a victim less than 12. Stevens committed the offenses against the 3-year-old child in Milton between March 1, 2019 and July 6, 2019.