Adam Thomas Patton, 35, of the 3700 block of Monopoly Court, Gulf Breeze, was arrested Aug. 12 on one charge of battery and one charge of resisting an officer, following a domestic disturbance.
The hiring of a new $61,000-a-year administrative assistant by the City of Gulf Breeze without considering other applicants or advertising the job is drawing fire from Joe Henderson, the mayor pro tem.
Drivers will find tree clearing in advance of the road work slated for State Road 87 between the southern boundary of Eglin Air Force Base and about 2 miles south of the Yellow River Bridge. The $18.4 million project will widen approximately 5 miles of SR 87.
Plans are moving along for County on the Sound, the two-day music festival featuring Trace Adkins and Big & Rich, slated to take place next month at the Navarre Beach Marine Park.
Julian Bond, a leading figure from the 1960s civil rights movement who served as chairman of the NAACP after a long career in politics, died Saturday in Fort Walton Beach, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. He was 75.
