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For the 14th consecutive year, Santa Rosa County has received the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting from the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) for the county’s comprehensive annual financial report (CAFR).

Roundabouts, raised roadways and removed businesses are a few of the features outlined by renderings of U.S. Highway 98 released by the Florida Department of Transportation in advance of its next public hearing on the widening of the highway.

Fort Pickens Road through the Fort Pickens area and Highway 399 in the Santa Rosa area both have sand and water still on them as a result of Hurricane Nate. There is also substantial structural damage.

Having a clean and uncluttered home is an important part of a healthy lifestyle and science can prove it. A study conducted at Cornell University found that cluttered kitchens create caloric chaos. Women were asked to wait for another person in either a messy, noisy kitchen or a clean and tidy kitchen. Both kitchens had snacks that included cookies, carrots and crackers. Those waiting in the messy kitchens ate twice as many cookies as the other group!

In early November, the first of four advanced polar-orbiting satellites known as the Joint Polar Satellite System will be launched from California, the result of a collaboration between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA.

Hurlburt Field – 27 years of service. 13 assignments. Countless deployments with joint special operations units and even a stint at Harvard University.

Do you have trouble saying no? I know I am a recovering Yes-aholic. It’s hard to say no for many of us because we have a big heart and we miscalculate how much we can accomplish. Sometimes, it’s simply that we like being able to say yes!

The commercial building boomlet underway in the City of Gulf Breeze is speeding up with plans being revealed for a fourth hotel and a third ice cream shop.

Friday morning at 6:30 a.m. the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s office SWAT, Narcotics Unit and Major Crimes Detectives executed a judge-signed search warrant at 3286 Hwy. 87 in Holley. According to The Republic, a newspaper in Columbus, Indiana, the Bartholomew County Joint Narcotics enforcement team simultaneously served a related warrant at an address in Columbus.

County tourism leaders were hesitant Monday to back plans to pay for nearly $2 million in Navarre Park improvements through more than doubling the loan on the Navarre Beach Visitors Center.