In the wake of the worldwide concerns of the Zika virus, Santa Rosa County is using the opportunity to remind local residents to practice precautions and help reduce the spread of mosquitoes. The Florida Department of Health has reported six new cases of Zika in Florida that are travel-associated, bringing the total to nine for the state. Miami-Dade has four reported cases, Hillsborough has two, Lee has two and Santa Rosa has one.
In the early morning hours of Jan. 30, Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to an Avalon Boulevard Circle K regarding a suspicious person who was seen walking up to the front door of the establishment wearing a hood and mask but never made entry into the building. The suspect left in a pickup truck before deputies arrived.
Kevin Lacz, a former Navy SEAL who played himself in the 2014 hit movie “American Sniper,” now lives in Navarre and, with his wife Lindsey, is the heart and soul of a new veterans outreach effort.
Every hotel and motel room in Santa Rosa County would have to be filled for an entire week in April by Tough Mudder enthusiasts to achieve the economic impact of the two-day event as estimated in a request for state funding filed by the Tourist Development Office.
The $400,000 engineering study ordered up by Santa Rosa County commissioners at the urging of then county commissioner Jim Melvin, suggests more than $80 million in possible flood control measures for Holley by the Sea.
Food-insecurity, as defined by the United States Department of Agriculture, is “a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.”
The Florida Forest Service was recognized at the national level this month, receiving the Wildfire Mitigation Service Leadership Award for its efforts to create a record-breaking prescribed fire program.
Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. — The 96th Medical Group’s laboratory provided the first-ever human-blood sample of a spirochete bacteria, known to cause tick-borne relapsing fever to be cultured at the Centers for Disease Control.
Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. — In 1963, Beatlemania was only beginning. Troll dolls were the rage. Gas was only 30 cents per gallon, and for less than a dollar you could go see Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra at the box office. In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I have a dream speech,” and President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.
