Santa Rosa Commissioners had aimed to keep only three proposed sites in consideration for a planned new county courthouse. Instead, the board decided to keep four parcels in the running at its meeting last Thursday.
Florida’s black bear population is ballooning back from a population estimated at just 300 in the 1970s. The thriving population has since exploded tenfold to roughly 3,000- prompting removal from state’s list of threatened species in August of 2012. As a result, the number of incidents involving bears throughout the state is escalating and spreading into populated areas.
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.
