A local legislative coalition is pushing purchase of a $1.44 million site in Pea Ridge as the location for a future county courthouse. Voters will decide between that site and two other parcels during the Nov. 4 general election. Voters will also decide if they want to fund the project using a one-cent sales tax increase for a period of five years.
Property owners in Santa Rosa County may soon be able to get property tax credit for certain improvements made to homes or commercial property. The Florida Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Funding Agency is working with county officials to provide a funding mechanism for storm hardening and energy efficiency improvements.
Family and friends are mourning the loss of two-year-old Payton Lee Stone who died Sept. 23 from injuries sustained in a car crash Aug. 5. Her mother, Milton resident Ronni Stone, died at age 20 in the crash.
Tallahassee, FL —Florida is the first state in the country to offer Medicaid waiver services to active military families deployed from another state where they were already receiving services. The Florida Legislature passed and Governor Rick Scott signed the 2014-2015 It’s Your Money Tax Cut Budget which created this program.
Recently parents at Avalon Middle School were alerted to an outbreak of staph infection among several students. Although the source was determined to be an off-campus local sports program in the Pace community, the school is taking steps to prevent the spread of the infection on campus.
