Stories by Marlo Scafe
Stories by Marlo Scafe
Cat County 98.7 donates $22,878.50 to Santa Rosa Kid’s House
May 28, 2025
At the Board of County Commissioners meeting May 22, Cat Country 98.7 presented a check of more than $20,000 to Santa Rosa Kid’s House.
Cat Country Morning Show personality and program director Brent Lane said they organized the Spring Jam at Juana’s Pagodas & Sailors’ Grill as a way to raise funds to benefit the community.
Commissioners honor essay contest winners
May 23, 2025
At the Board of County Commissioners meeting May 22, local middle school students and one high school student received awards for their essays about the American government.
Military Appreciation Month
May 12, 2025
The Board of County Commissioners recognized and honored service members with a Military Appreciation Month proclamation on May 5.
Septic to Sewer
May 7, 2025
Ahead of the county adopting an ordinance to reflect the state statute requiring sewer connection, county commissioners assuage concerns.
Farmers fight for their way of life
April 17, 2025
At the special zoning meeting on March 27, commissioners rejected District 3 Commissioner Rhett Rowell’s proposal to extend the Rural Protection Zone. At the following regular meeting on April 7, Rowell said he was taken aback by the 180 the board had done.
Teaching community homesteading skills
March 27, 2025
Rachel Wallace founded Ladies Skill Share in January 2023. Now she has hosted several classes, and a large-scale event dedicated to teaching the community homesteading skills.
Ladies Skill Sharing is a women-based group that teaches homesteading skills. The group began because Wallace could see the need to learn and teach the skills that generations before us utilized in their daily lives and sometimes to survive hard times. Wallace believes there is power in knowledge and in wanting to share that with the community she founded Ladies Skill Sharing.
Local churches under economic hardship from fire fees
February 24, 2025
With tax season in full swing, local churches are facing financial hardship they have never faced before. One local church was charged $16,000 for their non-ad valorem assessment that funds fire districts.
Tobacco in parks could be banned
February 18, 2025
The Florida Department of Health and Students Working Against Tobacco, support the banning of not just cigarettes at public parks, but all tobacco use. At the county commission meeting Feb. 10, they shared why.
Santa Rosa Online teacher of 59 years fosters curiosity in students
January 27, 2025
Carl O’Neal has long been a resolute educator. This year marks his 59th year teaching and he was named one of five finalists for 2024 Teacher of the Year in Santa Rosa County.
Is Florida headed toward a deficit of $6.9 billion?
January 14, 2025
On Jan. 9 at the Santa Rosa County Legislative Delegation meeting, Rep. Alex Andrade and Sen. Don Gaetz discussed the funding of various projects. The state has worked with a surplus in its budget over the past few years, but now Florida is trending toward a deficit of more than $6 billion.