Based on damage assessments, the federal disaster declaration from recent floods was amended May 14 to provide assistance to governments in Santa Rosa, Escambia, Okaloosa and Walton counties.
Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a home on Spruce Street in the Midway area May 14 after a 911 caller said a resident had fired a gun inside the dwelling and had threatened to shoot her.
Properties with severe repetitive flood loss and some with significant repetitive flood claims may qualify for federal mitigation assistance. The deadline to apply for funding is June 6.
Santa Rosa County Sheriff Wendell Hall and Santa Rosa County Schools Superintendent Tim Wyrosdick attended Monday’s commission committee meeting, asking commissioners to authorize two grant applications, including one they hope to use to put school resource officers back in public elementary and middle schools. Commissioners are set to approve those and address other matters at their regular meeting today.
The 16-year-old Navarre High School student who was arrested April 17 for allegedly taking a loaded gun into the school will be prosecuted as an adult, according to Assistant State Attorney James Parker.
Many south Santa Rosa County residents continue to separate their recyclables from common, household garbage, but at least for now, it is all for naught.
Navarre residents representing “Citizens to Incorporate Navarre” attended the Monday Santa Rosa County Commission meeting and brought a petition with more than 800 signatures in support of placing a non-binding straw poll on the August ballot in hopes of determining whether or not the community supports moving forward with the incorporation process. They also asked for $27,500 to fund a Feasibility Study that will be required by the Florida State Legislature.
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office arrested 32-year-old Jessie Eugene Morris and 25-year-old Amber Leard-Morris of Fort Walton Beach May 9 after deputies responded to a complaint of a man beating a dog with a piece of lumber and then holding it down by its neck with the lumber against its throat.
Members of the Florida-Alabama Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) received an update on the future Pensacola Bay ferry service at their April 9 meeting in Milton. Dan Brown, Gulf Islands National Seashore (GINS) park superintendent, said the ferry service is projected to being in March 2017.
