The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) is investigating a two-car crash from Sunday night that claimed the life of a Baker teenager. According to the FHP, 13-year-old Shawn McLaughlin was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash that happened on Highway 4 east of Jay.
During the city’s budget review process, Public Services Director Vernon Prather noted that the city’s stormwater utility’s projected budget would be about $30,000 in the red. To wipe out the deficit, the City Council voted Aug. 17 to increase the city’s stormwater management utility fee from $4.50 to $5.07.
Curt Carver spent nearly three decades working in city government in Illinois, and now he is bringing his experience to the City of Gulf Breeze. Carver was selected to be Deputy City Manager from a pool of nearly 100 applicants.
Pensacola International Airport reported that passenger traffic through the airport in July was the highest monthly total since May 2011. According to the report released Aug. 18, 153,476 passengers used the airport, which was about a 6.5 percent increase over July 2013 results.
The U.S. Treasury Department announced Aug. 13 a new rule that outlines grant programs established by the RESTORE Act as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Santa Rosa County Commissioners have added some wiggle room for funding a new courthouse. The board voted Aug. 14 to propose a one-cent sales tax for five years instead of four. That decision came after cost projections rose to $50 million.
Results of the Navarre incorporation feasibility study are in, showing a city can be formed without increasing taxes. Now residents in six precincts can express support for or opposition to the matter. Santa Rosa commissioners last Thursday gave final approval for a non-binding straw poll on the Nov. 4 general election ballot.
Sea turtles have been busy making nests along the Emerald Coast, and according to a Gulf Islands National Seashore (GINS) biologist, 143 baby sea turtles found their way to the Gulf from Pensacola Beach Thursday night. The first baby turtles had hatched July 29 from a nest at Perdido Key.
