Longtime Navarre residents and business owners Betty and Greg Fountain are realizing a five-years-in-the-making dream come true. Their land off of Highway 98, west of Joybrook Road is being cleared for a 250 unit “Class A” luxury apartment complex on 16 acres that they have owned for eight years.
The holidays are often a busy time. That is especially true this year for members of the Tourist Development Council (TDC). After successfully advocating a bed tax increase, the council is set to review marketing services proposals and an important request from the Navarre Beach Turtle Center.
GAINESVILLE — A year after University of Florida veterinarians removed a piece of bone from her badly fractured shoulder in a procedure believed to be the first of its kind, Graceful Leaguer, a 9-year-old quarter horse, is home with her owner after building back her strength through a combination of play and rehabilitative exercise.
The Department of Veterans Affairs Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System and specific community-based medical facilities in Northwest Florida have partnered together to share a limited amount of electronic veteran patient data securely through the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) health program.
HURLBURT FIELD — The Hurlburt Field Chapter of the Air Force Association gave 24 Air Commandos of the 1st Special Operations Wing unsung hero awards during a Dec. 4 ceremony at the Soundside Club.
In one of the biggest advances against leukemia and other blood cancers in many years, doctors are reporting unprecedented success by using gene therapy to transform patients’ blood cells into soldiers that seek and destroy cancer.
University of Florida professors are researching how to use pig kidneys as a framework for human kidney transplants, which could possible shorten the length of time kidney failure patients will have to wait for a new organ in the future.
