A crowd of more than 100 people interested in the Pensacola Beach taxation issue gathered Monday night at a town hall meeting sponsored by the Pensacola Beach Advocates.
After protests from the Audubon Society, design modification is expected for one of two Navarre Beach projects selected in the third round of Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) early restoration funding, resulting from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Plans for building a new 6-lane Pensacola Bay Bridge are moving forward. Two public meetings are on the horizon, and the nearly $600 million toll-free project is expected to begin in 2017. Meanwhile, plans to widen a portion of U.S. 98 east of Gulf Breeze await construction funding.
April 20, 2010. Some may have trouble remembering what happed nearly four years ago, but as soon as the words “oil spill” are mentioned, they immediately remember and many local residents have vivid of memories of the spring and summer of 2010.
Pace resident Jayer Williamson pre-filed April 10 for the Nov. 4 special election to fill the District 1 commission seat which had been held by his father, Jim, who died April 2. Governor Rick Scott could make an appointment to fill the seat until the election.
All five Gulf of Mexico water sampling locations on Navarre Beach, as well as a sample taken from the Santa Rosa Sound near Navarre Park all returned “good” ratings from the Florida Department of Health. The samples were taken March 31 with results posted to the Florida Healthy Beaches website April 4.
April 6 – 12 is Wildfire Awareness Week in Florida. Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam and the Florida Forest Service are encouraging Floridians to be extremely careful with fires outdoors.
Locals and tourists alike appreciate the beautiful scenery of Gulf Islands National Seashore and now they will have even more time to enjoy it while driving between Navarre Beach and Pensacola Beach. The National Park Service (NPS) last week reduced the speed limit from 35 mph to 20 mph to protect nesting shorebirds and their newborn chicks.
