The Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners voted Dec. 3 to hire the Tallahassee-based lobbying firm of Johnson & Blanton. The county will contract the firm to lobby local interests at the state level for $60,000 per year.
A former Santa Rosa County teacher arrested April 18 on a DUI charge made an early plea deal, receiving one year’s probation. Additionally, a third-degree felony count for cruelty against a child was dropped by prosecutors.
Thelma Denise Lowery, the Milton day care owner charged with first-degree murder in the Nov. 10 death of a 16-month-old toddler in her care, has been assigned a Walton County judge.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Former Sgt. William Cole’s 29 months as a special operations soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan took its toll, leaving him with a traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder and memories of a lost buddy he befriended in Ranger school.
South Santa Rosa Caring and Sharing aims to provide more than 800 people in need with food and gift certificates this Christmas. The local nonprofit will host its sixth annual Fool’s Day New Year’s Eve Day Golf Tournament in an effort to replenish its funds following the giving season.
Santa Rosa County 4-H agent Prudence Casky recently participated in two orientation and training sessions for new county extension faculty at the University of Florida in Gainesville. She will be publicly recognized at a statewide extension conference next August where she will receive a Certificate of Completion from Nick Place, dean of the Florida Cooperative Extension Service.
Eglin Air Force Base — A new cat isolation ward at the Pet Welfare Center will keep ill cats awaiting fostering or adoption away from healthy cats, while they’re being treated.
Chief Master Sgt. Jeff Maberry speaks to friends and family during his retirement ceremony at Hurlburt Field, Fla., Nov. 21, 2014. Chief Maberry retired after 26 years of service, the last of which were as the 1st Special Operations Wing command chief.
Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola is offering a new treatment to re-open arteries in the legs that have become narrowed or blocked due to peripheral artery disease (PAD).
