For the past decade, a partnership between local utility systems called the Fairpoint Regional Utility Authority has provided a source of fresh water for people living in Gulf Breeze to Holley-Navarre.
It’s not hard to tell 2014 is an election year. Candidate signs are popping up in yards and businesses throughout the county. Some of those signs are placed in unauthorized locations, such as medians or right of ways.
Santa Rosa County Commissioners approved a $400,000 work order for Baskerville Donovan at their April 24 regular meeting. The funds will be used for engineering services to develop a stormwater management plan for the Holley by the Sea (HBTS) watershed, where extreme rainfall over the past year has exposed many drainage problems.
Dave Robau lives in Gulf Breeze, so he offered up Santa Rosa sites as an option when his company was contracted to help find a suitable location for a $400 million waste-to-energy gasification plant. He lured officials with ALFA Group, LLC to the county last week to scout potential sites for the project, which could bring 1,700-plus temporary and about 100 permanent jobs.
The Santa Rosa School Board April 24 temporarily reassigned a Hobbs Middle School teacher who had been arrested and charged with a first-degree misdemeanor DUI and a related third-degree felony count of Cruelty Toward a Child.
Just more than 34 years ago, a daring attempt to rescue 52 diplomats held captive at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, ended in the death of eight service members, including five from Hurlburt Field’s 1st Special Operations Wing.
Members of Citizens to Incorporate Navarre spent Friday and Saturday at Fun Fest talking to local residents about the need to for Navarre to become a city. The group also collected more than 400 signatures from local residents who are behind the group’s effort to get a non-binding straw poll on the Aug. 26 primary election ballot.
A Navarre man accused of making death threats against his neighbor and firing a gun into the neighbor’s home is scheduled for felony arraignment May 8. According to a Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office report, 49-year-old Jeffrey Denver Campbell was arrested April 14 and initially charged with aggravated stalking, a third degree felony.
A Navarre woman arrested in April for allegedly providing alcohol for minors at a house party on Raider Lane is pleading not guilty to the charges. According to court records, not guilty pleas were entered on behalf of 40-year-old Chrisheyl Watson during a felony arraignment April 17.
