APALACHICOLA — Gov. Rick Scott, saying it’s time to fight for the economic future of the Apalachicola Bay region, announced Tuesday that Florida will file a lawsuit against Georgia over its consumption of freshwater in a river system that serves three Southeastern states.
Line entanglement can pose a great risk to sea turtles. For this reason, local marine life experts say that anglers should know proper protocol for accidentally hooking a turtle, especially when fishing from a pier.
A recent trend of stingray incidents on Navarre Beach conjures memories of this writer’s own run-in with a ray – and better yet, of the advice on how to avoid being injured by these sea creatures.
The Navarre Beach Pier will be under new management in 2014. By a narrow margin, Pasco Gibson and Yolanda Wells were selected on Monday by the Santa Rosa County Commission to take over management of the pier. The pair will replace The Pier, Inc., a brother-sister duo led by Dorothy Slye and Everett Ratliff Jr., who have overseen pier operations since June 2010 and earlier this year received a contract extension, which expires Dec. 31.
A Gulf Breeze man was arrested last Monday for punching his wife in the jaw during an argument, according to a Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office arrest report.
With a little nudge from the Santa Rosa County Tourist Development Council (TDC), three marine groups based in Navarre Beach Park are making an effort to unite and set goals to pursue jointly. The new coalition is planning to reach out to other beach stakeholders and start meeting monthly as a subcommittee of the TDC’s south end committee.
A 26-year-old Navarre woman was arrested earlier this month after bruises were discovered on a child whom she babysits, according to a Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office arrest report.
The Navarre Beach Fire Department will be upgrading their watercraft equipment following an incident in which firefighters were put in harm’s way when doing their job near the Navarre Pier last month.
The Santa Rosa Bay Bridge Authority is broke. The Authority doesn’t have enough money to fund an annual audit required by the Florida Auditor General, much less generate enough revenues to make multi-million dollar, semiannual bond payments. Most of the Authority’s members have quit over the past couple of years, and replacements are hard to find because of the bridge’s troubled history. At an August 14 meeting held at the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) office in Milton, the group was left with little choice but to authorize a traffic and revenue study which could lead to yet another toll hike.
