In a fiscal year of high numbers for bed-tax collections, January saw a 41 percent increase in these fees paid by overnight visitors to Santa Rosa County.
A political action committee (PAC) is seeking to revive an effort to incorporate Navarre into a city, but they have some work to do before the county commissioners will entertain a ballot initiative necessary for the idea to move forward.
County commissioners plan to ask voters to raise the local option sales tax (LOST) in an August special election. This would extend and expand an existing half-cent LOST approved by voters in 2016.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) agents took a Fort Walton foster parent into custody March 7 for having alleged videos of child pornography on his computer.
Santa Rosa sheriff’s deputies arrested Milton resident Benjamin Donahue, 29, March 1 after a 9-year-old was hospitalized after being beaten with a bamboo stick.
A Navarre man is facing felony battery charges for allegedly choking and beating a man during a party on Calle De Castelar. Cody Bijarro, 22, was arrested March 3.
An amendment to the collection agreement between Santa Rosa County and Airbnb and the cleanup of an abandoned truck stop on Highway 87 were among the topics discussed by county commissioners Monday.
