Nov 8, 2018
Passing the torch: Ex-commando inspires youth for special operations
Patrick Air Force Base (AFNS) – While most people spend their off time catching up on their favorite shows, playing video games, or catching up on social media, one Reserve Airman and clinical nurse with the 920th Aeromedical Staging Squadron, spends his evenings training the future men and women of special operations.
Nov 8, 2018
United Way regroups during FBI probe
The federal probe of finances at the United Way of Santa Rosa County may be delving into matters of donations, spending and the charity’s payroll that few if any of its 27 directors understand.
Nov 8, 2018
Beach lifeguards getting busier
As lifeguard season along Navarre Beach closed out Oct. 28, records show that the guards have been busier than in the past.
Nov 8, 2018
Deal with refuge collapses; county leery of business plan
A decision has been put off once again on the location of a new Panhandle Butterfly House (PBH) vivarium and learning center.
Nov 1, 2018
Tiger Point residents to fight golf club selloff
Fearing traffic jams and drainage woes, some neighbors of Tiger Point Golf Club plan to take their case against the proposed sale of two parcels on the property by its owner, the City of Gulf Breeze, to Santa Rosa County officials.
Nov 1, 2018
Fort Pickens a stopover on 5,000-mile kayak trip
Steve Chard is late setting up his tent at the Fort Pickens campground on a Sunday evening. After arriving in Florida by kayak earlier in the day, he got caught up in watching the Blue Angels fly.
Nov 1, 2018
CSAF, family unveil recent MOH recipient’s name on Special Tactics Memorial
Hurlburt Field – Sunlight shed for the first time on a well-known, but newly-engraved name under the recently installed Medal of Honor recipient display at the Special Tactics Memorial in the airpark Oct. 27.
Nov 1, 2018
United Way financial questions mount
As federal agents continue their probe into finances at United Way of Santa Rosa, records at the agency show that staff salaries there kept soaring before the volunteer board recently stepped in to put three employees on paid leave and order a special audit.
Nov 1, 2018
Taxing power for sheriff is coming
Santa Rosa Sheriff Bob Johnson has long had the Midas touch when asking county commissioners to boost his budget, but soon they intend to have him send much of his ever-increasing annual bill straight to taxpayers.