A rare respiratory illness-causing virus has affected 82 people in the middle of the country, most of them children according to the Centers for Disease Control and Protection (CDC). Hospitals in Missouri and Illinois are seeing more children with the virus than are typical for this time of year, which has promoted the CDC’s attention.
Sixty-six percent of all Americans and 30 percent of children are considered overweight or obese. Under-eating and lack of nutrition know-how are the two biggest obesity-causing culprits according to Katelyn Roberts, manager of the Metabolic Research Center in Shalimar, Fla.
Holley Navarre Fire District had higher than usual call volumes the weekend of Sept. 13 and 14 which included one brush fire set by a 9-year-old, an unattended yard fire and an unattended kitchen fire.
24-year-old Jacob McKinley of Navarre was killed Sept. 11 on U.S. 98 after a vehicle crossed into oncoming traffic and crashed into McKinley’s Ford Escape.
Warren E. “Charlie” Brown was memorialized Thursday, Sept. 11, by the naming of the very road that he traveled tirelessly while he was alive, serving and representing his community, Navarre.
Santa Rosa County officials have scheduled a series of town hall meetings to educate citizens about upcoming ballot referendums related to a proposed new county courthouse. Voters will decide during the Nov. 4 general election whether or not they support a 5-year one-cent sales tax increase to fund the proposed $50 million project.
Florida Governor Rick Scott is hoping more than 620,300 new private-sector jobs created since he took office will lead to his re-election. He’s on bus tour with other state leaders, campaigning on tax cuts and economic growth. The “Let’s Keep Working” campaign stopped Sept. 10 in East Milton, highlighting The Ropella Group’s success as an example of how the state economy is prospering.
The Navarre Incorporation feasibility study cost $27,500, property taxes could go up $100 per year and the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office will remain the presiding law enforcement agency if Navarre incorporated.
Local customers pay a 5-percent franchise fee on their electric utility bills. That money comes back to Santa Rosa County and adds up to roughly $6 million annually. Commissioners Sept. 11 decided to allocate a larger portion of that amount to district recreation budgets.
