News Archive

Four firms are vying to study whether Santa Rosa County should build an aquatic center – or centers – to serve residents, swim clubs and high school teams.

The Grand Chapter of the Florida Order of the Eastern Star has generously donated $100,000 to the Studer Family Children’s Hospital at Ascension Sacred Heart, with $10,000 going toward a new facility dog.

Florida’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Jimmy Patronis announced that more than $40 million in unclaimed property was returned to Floridians during the month of September. Since Patronis took office in 2017, more than $2.1 billion in unclaimed property has been returned to Florida citizens.

The Catholic Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee will host the annual Florida Culture of Life Conference – “A Eucharistic Way of Reconciling Love” – Friday and Saturday, Oct. 13-14, at St. Sylvester Catholic Church in Navarre.

Santa Rosa District Schools on Monday, Oct. 2, announced that Triumph Gulf Coast has awarded the district a $9-million grant to create the Santa Rosa Center for Innovation, “a cutting-edge, STEAM-powered Career and Technical Education Learning Hub.”

After almost eight years, the Eglin icon, McKinley Climatic Lab, returns to 96th Test Wing possession as of Oct. 1.

The realignment moves the lab from Arnold Engineering Development Complex back to the 96th Range Group.  A 2016 Air Force Test Center consolidation moved the lab under the unit at Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee.

At a citizen’s roundtable meeting held Saturday, Sept. 23, local citizens’ advocate Carmen Reynolds and a few others discussed transforming a retention pond in the Whispering Pines neighborhood into a community walking area.

Santa Rosa County Economic Development Director Shannon Ogletree has asked the Board of County Commissioners to buy 13 acres adjacent to the Northwest Florida Industrial Park @ I-10 to provide room for expansion.

The Pensacola & Perdido Bays Estuary Program (PPBEP) announced the award of $273,000 to local educational institutions, non-profits, and governments to support action projects to help restore and protect area waters. Nine recipients received awards ranging from $11,000 to $47,000 at the 2023 PPBEP Community Grant Symposium on Sept. 22 at the Bayview Community Center in Pensacola.