County juggling business interest, funding for growth
Santa Rosa County Commissioners walk a razor’s edge when it comes to impact fees.
On one side loom growing infrastructure needs as the population continues to climb.
Author: Jamie Gentry
Commissioners received donations from pit owner
While county commissioners have denied past accusations of voting based on campaign contributions, citizens have expressed concern that was exactly what happened in connection with repeal of protections for south Santa Rosa’s water supply.
Are you hungry, Navarre?
Currently Navarre has four groceries stores within a five-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 98.
That’s about one grocery store to every 11,000 residents. And there’s more on the way with construction and renovation plans expanding Navarre’s options for filling the fridge and pantry.
Parker claps back at clerk with racism accusation
Attacks continued Jan. 12 between Santa Rosa Clerk of Court Don Spencer and County Commissioner Sam Parker as Parker accused Spencer of potential racial discrimination.
New schools on the way for Santa Rosa
Santa Rosa County schools are bursting at the seams, and in 2021, the district is making moves to solve that problem with two new kindergarten through eighth grade schools.
Joint utility set to fight for water protection
Fairpoint Utility, the collective of water utilities for south Santa Rosa County, announced a new strategy for stopping repeal of water well protections.
A press release issued Dec. 22 addresses a vote by the board of county commissioners (BCC) Dec. 10 to repeal a section of the Comprehensive Plan that would allow expansion of a borrow pit and vegetation dumping over the wells that supply water to all of south Santa Rosa.
Sassy parrot dials up neighborhood drama
On sunny days, ladies strolling along the sidewalk of Harvest Village Court are frequently greeted with wolf whistles from the front porch of one residence.
The unscrupulous flirt is Pretty Boy, an African gray parrot and favorite feathered family member of the Salas household.
Former superintendent: From paralyzed to powerful
Flattened in the grass and paralyzed on a football field in Clinton, a young Mississippi University pre-law student had a moment of clarity. His neck was broken.
“Feb. 7, 1981, a date I will remember for the rest of my life,” he said of the injury.
New ER busy, two more nearing completion
Navarre is set to get two new emergency rooms in the first half of 2021, greatly increasing the access to medical care in an area largely lacking services.
Body cams likely on way for SR deputies
Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s deputies may start the new year with some new technology as the county seeks to implement body cameras.
Sheriff Bob Johnson presented the issue to the board of county commissioners Dec. 10 as a request for a little less than $1 million for the first five years of the program.
