John William Brooks II “no longer has to imagine what it is like to walk by Christ’s side, as he is now surrounded by His glory,’’said his son John Brooks III.
Special Olympics Escambia/Santa Rosa will host the Area 1 Summer Games beginning at 9 a.m. March 23 at Corry Station in Pensacola. Area 1 includes Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and Walton counties.
Tempers flared at last Thursday’s Santa Rosa County Tourist Development Council (TDC) north end committee meeting when TDC appointee Jack Sanborn interrogated County Commissioner Jim Melvin regarding why the commission ignored a TDC recommendation to reappoint TDC Chairman Vernon Compton to another term on the council.
Santa Rosa County Commissioners approved several items dealing with the south-end during the March 11 commission meeting, but they left other issues hanging.
The three most pressing issues the county’s public schools will face in the coming year are equal budgets, campus safety and fair assessments of staff performance, Santa Rosa County Superintendent of Schools Tim Wyrosdick said Feb. 27 during a community update at Tiger Point Golf Club.
The Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office recently became the first sheriff’s office in the state to introduce its own smartphone application. The free app is downloadable to iPhone, Android and iPad devices.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The owner of the oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 says BP hampered efforts to stop the resulting gusher of oil by misleading government officials about how many barrels of oil were flowing each day from the damaged well on the Gulf floor.