News Archive

Last year the Santa Rosa County Tourist Development Council decided to rebrand the county as “Florida’s Playground.” The TDC is also planning a trail to highlight a dozen area attractions, including Navarre Beach Marine Park, Gulf Islands National Seashore, Historic downtown Milton, Gulf Breeze Zoo and other hot spots.

A California woman was sentenced May 14 in Pensacola to seven years in prison and ordered to pay more than $10 million in restitution for charges stemming from a mortgage fraud scheme, which included homes in Navarre, Santa Rosa Beach and Panama City.

Dave Taylor, the General Manager of The Club at Hidden Creek, was let go at the Holley-Navarre Water System (HNWS) board meeting Tuesday by a vote of 3 to 2.

A Milton was sentenced May 14 to three years in prison and two years probation on a charge of aggravated stalking stemming from threats he made against a school in Colorado the same day a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.

Based on damage assessments, the federal disaster declaration from recent floods was amended May 14 to provide assistance to governments in Santa Rosa, Escambia, Okaloosa and Walton counties.

Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a home on Spruce Street in the Midway area May 14 after a 911 caller said a resident had fired a gun inside the dwelling and had threatened to shoot her.

Properties with severe repetitive flood loss and some with significant repetitive flood claims may qualify for federal mitigation assistance. The deadline to apply for funding is June 6.

Santa Rosa County Sheriff Wendell Hall and Santa Rosa County Schools Superintendent Tim Wyrosdick attended Monday’s commission committee meeting, asking commissioners to authorize two grant applications, including one they hope to use to put school resource officers back in public elementary and middle schools. Commissioners are set to approve those and address other matters at their regular meeting today.

The 16-year-old Navarre High School student who was arrested April 17 for allegedly taking a loaded gun into the school will be prosecuted as an adult, according to Assistant State Attorney James Parker.

Many south Santa Rosa County residents continue to separate their recyclables from common, household garbage, but at least for now, it is all for naught.