Kissimmee, Fla. – Governor Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet last week approved a 2-acre transfer of land from the state to the University of South Florida and All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg. The land transfer will enable the hospital to construct a 300,000 square-foot facility, generating 400 jobs and creating a research, training and educational center to better care for pediatric patients.
As January coms to an end, it’s inevitable that some of those New Year’s resolutions to lose weight will too. But at the Navarre YMCA, branch director Dottie Thomas said that residents are joining the gym to get healthy, not just to lose weight.
Officials in Santa Rosa, Escambia and Okaloosa counties made the decision Monday to close offices Tuesday and Wednesday ahead of a winter storm expected to create hazardous driving conditions throughout the area. Florida Department of Transportation spokeswoman Donna Green said Monday, “A winter storm is a bit of an anomaly for us.” She continued, “Crews throughout the district are ready for the winter weather when it arrives and will use dry sand to treat roadways.”
A 19-year-old Milton man was arrested Sunday for domestic violence with a baseball bat, according to a Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office arrest report.
The Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office last week announced it had recovered a vehicle used in several daytime burglaries on Jan. 14. Authorities believe the vehicle had also been used during other burglaries that had occurred in Navarre, Gulf Breeze, Pace and Milton.
Votes were tallied last Tuesday and incumbent Charles Enghauser and Daryl Lynchard were elected Holley-Navarre Water System board members, receiving more than 90 percent of the votes.
Only seven votes separated Enghauser and Lynchard, but the difference between Lynchard and Ashley Strabala, the candidate who received the third highest vote total, was 459 votes.
Gulf Breeze City Council members have made a decision to oppose a bill that would reduce the impact of red light camera enforcement, a tool the city has used since 2006.
A mother and her two sons were displaced after a fire started in their Holley by the Sea home early Friday morning. Holley-Navarre Fire District responded to 1999 Bayou Drive just after midnight and firefighters were able to put the blaze out in about 30 minutes.
A 25-year-old woman who grew up in Pace has died due to complications from the H1N1 flu virus, making this the third such death to impact Santa Rosa County this year.
Another arrest has been made in connection to a firearm burglary that took place in Navarre Jan. 8, according to a Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office arrest report.
