Proposed regulations to impose structure on Santa Rosa Board of Commissioner meetings were tabled last week after commissioners and citizens expressed concerns with the first drafts.

The resolutions would standardize everything from who could add last minute agenda items to how long citizens would be allowed to speak at public meetings.

I’m not sure how I survived growing up in Illinois, why I thought it was fun to strap on shoes with blades on them and stumble across a frozen river.

I waited for the bus in sub-freezing temperatures and considered it normal to don layers of clothing so thick I couldn’t press my arms down to my sides. It took 10 minutes to get dressed to step out the front door and almost that long to take it all off again.

When the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) released its semiannual crime report recently, Santa Rosa County’s numbers were skewed.

The sheriff’s office had originally submitted four months of data for 2019 instead of six.

When she’s not working from her Navarre home or taking photos of sunsets, Theresa Adkisson is growing pineapples.

She jokingly calls it a “pineapple farm,” although she harvests a pineapple every few months, at best.

Less than a week after the first Santa Rosa County officials got the first call about COVID-19 vaccines being on the way, 5,000 have already been administered.

Another 2,000 individuals 65 and older are scheduled to be vaccinated next week and officials are still setting up new dates and sites the coming days and weeks.