Two Santa Rosa County teens are back in custody after they escaped July 23 from the Okaloosa Youth Academy in Crestview. According to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, 14-year-old Kurtis Lee Canning and 15-year-old Joseph Timothy Enfinger, both from Milton, are now charged with escape from a residential commitment facility, resisting an officer without violence and criminal mischief of over $1,000.
Gulf Breeze residents pay the lowest operating millage rate in area, and city staff is recommending that the current rate of 1.9723 remain in place for the next budget. Based on current projections, the budget showed a $532,500 surplus, which would be earmarked for capital spending.
“Idle hands are the Devil’s workshop” is a fairly familiar quote, and if it is true, then too many people with idle hands are visiting Navarre Beach under the cover of darkness.
Officers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) arrested two Jacksonville-area teenagers July 25 on charges of torturing a gopher tortoise.
Less than a month after Midway Fire District put a new boat in service, firefighters used it to rescue three teenage girls who were stranded in East Bay for more than two hours July 25. Chief Jonathan Kanzigg said that on duty battalion chief Lou Jones responded to a report of an abandoned personal watercraft near the Garcon Point Bridge.
Santa Rosa County Commissioners rejected a request to rezone a 480-acre parcel in south Santa Rosa County that would have allowed higher density and smaller lot lines. The land in question is home to wetlands and at least few endangered or threatened species.
A Central Florida firm has been selected to design a pedestrian overpass of Highway 98 in Navarre. The Florida Department of Transportation has selected SAI Consulting Engineers in Kissimmee to provide engineering services for the estimated $2.5 million project.
