Santa Rosa County officials have scheduled a series of town hall meetings to educate citizens about upcoming ballot referendums related to a proposed new county courthouse. Voters will decide during the Nov. 4 general election whether or not they support a 5-year one-cent sales tax increase to fund the proposed $50 million project.
There’s a new partnership on Navarre Beach. The Francis M. Weston Audubon Society and the Northwest Florida Marine Education and Discovery of Gulf Ecosystems (NWFL Marine Edge) have teamed up to place a naturalist educator on station at the Navarre Beach Marine Science Station (NBMSS).
One of the issues in front of voters in Santa Rosa County for the November general election is to decide if a proposed county-wide one cent local option sales tax should be adopted to fund a new judicial center. The option would increase sales tax by one percent, and if approved, would be limited to five years, beginning on Jan. 1, 2015 and ending at midnight on Dec. 31, 2019.
William “B.J.” Price III is the new principal at West Navarre Primary School (WNPS). However, serving as a leader in the local school district is nothing new to his family. His dad, Bill Price, also rose through the ranks, retiring as Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum Instruction.
If voter turnout had a voice it would cry “wah, wah, wah” …to be read as a diminuendo, which is the opposite of crescendo. Endless road signs, a steady stream of smiling faces in the mailbox and many energetic handshakes have filled (or cluttered, depending on your viewpoint) our lives in the last several weeks. And for what?
Community Health Systems, which operates 206 hospitals in 29 states including Santa Rosa Medical Center in Milton and North Okaloosa Medical Center in Crestview were the victims of a cyber-attack believed to be based out of China. The hospitals were not compromised. However, the physician network affiliated with the hospitals was exposed to what is believed to be the “Heartbleed” internet bug. According to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Form 8-K filed on August 18, the records of approximately 4.5 million individuals within the Community Health System physician network who in the last five years were referred for or received services from affiliated physicians were affected. The data taken includes patients’ names, addresses, birthdates, social security numbers, and, in some cases, telephone numbers, and the names of employers or guarantors. Community Health System stated that the data did not include patient credit card, medical or clinical information; the data is, however, considered protected under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) Santa Rosa Medical Center became part of Community Health Systems in January of 2014.
Curt Carver spent nearly three decades working in city government in Illinois, and now he is bringing his experience to the City of Gulf Breeze. Carver was selected to be Deputy City Manager from a pool of nearly 100 applicants.
The U.S. Treasury Department announced Aug. 13 a new rule that outlines grant programs established by the RESTORE Act as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
A draft feasibility study being released to the Santa Rosa County Commissioners Thursday shows that a proposed City of Navarre would have a positive cash flow without property owners paying any additional taxes. The report also said that the current estimated population of the proposed incorporated area is 42,300.
