Skip Tompkins, Santa Rosa County compliance superintendent, has completed his investigation of Navarre First Addition properties identified by Navarre resident Laurie Gallup as potentially in violation of county codes. Four property owners have received or will receive abatement notices as a result.
Jeremy Lau, 40, of Pensacola has entered the race for Florida House District Seat 2 after he filed April 12. Lau is the lone Democrat in a field of six Republican candidates.
Midway Fire Chief Jonathan Kanzigg announced April 16 that the first time his department used extrication equipment donated by the Firehouse Subs Foundation was to remove Taylor Wentz and Jesse Murray, both employees of the Firehouse Subs restaurant in Gulf Breeze, from a wrecked vehicle.
WASHINGTON — Seeking an elusive middle ground, President Barack Obama is proposing a 2014 budget that embraces tax increases abhorred by Republicans as well as reductions, loathed by liberals, in the growth of Social Security and other benefit programs.
Cancer and heart disease are bigger killers, but Alzheimer’s is the most expensive malady in the U.S., costing families and society $157 billion to $215 billion a year, according to a new study that looked at this in unprecedented detail.
The dreaded Indo-Pacific Lionfish have been spotted in local Gulf Islands National Seashore waters, and park officials are exploring the idea to allow capturing by spearfishing, something which has traditionally not been allowed by the National Park Service within park waters other than Biscayne National Park in south Florida.
On Saturday, April 6, anglers were able to fish Florida’s freshwaters without a fishing license, but not to worry if it passed unaware, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is offering three other free fishing license days.
SANTA ROSA BEACH — “Oh my gosh, this looks like something out of a magazine,” exclaimed Kelly Hale as she escorted her husband, Staff Sgt. Aaron Hale, and their four children into their new home for the first time, a foreclosure donated by Chase Bank.
