Although the City of Gulf Breeze boasts some of the more affluent neighborhoods in Santa Rosa County, SunTrust Banks Inc., plans to close its longtime location there on Jan. 17.
Collection of a half-penny sales tax in Santa Rosa County will begin in January of next year, but appointment of the oversight committee for the LOST has been delayed until weeks before that collection.
Most hotel managers balk at sharing details of their occupancy rates without assurance those figures won’t be made available to competitors, yet Santa Rosa tourism officials are about to mount a new effort to obtain that data.
Glen Berry wasn’t thrilled last month when he received a citation from a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officer for his bird feeder because it is a bear attractant.
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulations (FLOIR) has been busy these past few weeks, raising Citizen’s Property Insurance Corporation coastal policy costs by an average 10.9 percent for consumers and finalizing a rate hike of 14.5 percent for workers’ compensation costs to employers across the state.