Sept. 26, 2024 | 10:37 a.m. With Hurricane Helene hitting to the east of Santa Rosa County, many in the county are getting ready to help with recovery in harder hit areas of Florida. The storm is expected to make landfall in Florida’s big bend area around 7 p.m. Thursday night, and many are planning […]
In 1985, I went on a short-term mission trip to Haiti with a small team from our church. We were going to help Hosean International Ministries (HIM) build an orphanage in the town of Pignon, 40 miles south of Cap Haitien. There was a lot riding on this trip.
Santa Rosa County has its very first Veterans’ Treatment Court for justice-involved Veterans and Judge Tony Giraud admitted three Veterans to his first court Sept. 11. He will admit 10 more Sept. 25.
As I’m writing this, we are watching the yet-to-be-named storm that will be in the Gulf by the time you receive this paper. We are having daily updates with management and have a good plan in place. As an organization, we have been through Ivan, Dennis, Opal and Erin. However, many of our team members haven’t been through hurricanes, and they aren’t sure what to expect. There is no way to describe it except you will learn a lot about yourself and others after the storm. That is where it gets very real. Time will tell. In the meantime, we now have a “Storm Center” on our website where we will post when there are significant updates. When we post there, it will disseminate to Facebook and “X.” Now is not the time to check your insurance policies or decide you need flood insurance. But it is time to make sure you have 72-hours’ worth of food and water, just in case it heads west instead of east.
The high school baseball playoffs will have a different look in 2025 after the FHSAA Board of Directors voted 10-3 to approve a best-of-three format at its meeting earlier this week.
A proposal to expand the regular season from 25 to 28 games was also on the table, but it did not pass.
During the last week in September, the Florida Department of Transportation and its partners in the railway industry joined forces to recognize Rail Safety Week, which served as a reminder of the ways the state of Florida can collectively prevent tragedies around trains and railroad tracks.
Navarre Beach Fishing Pier is one of the leading areas for sea turtle strandings in the state of Florida. Despite Navarre Beach’s relatively small size (it’s only about 4 miles long), the pier and surrounding area can see anywhere from 45 to 67 turtles a year being rescued from fishing line, hooks and other entrapments. This year, that number is 56, and that’s only through September.
Sept. 25, 2024 | 10:01 p.m. The National Hurricane Center released its 10 p.m. update on Hurricane Helene, which continues to show the eye of the storm hitting in Florida’s “big bend” area. The storm is expected to make landfall in less than 24 hours, around 7 p.m. CT on Thursday. In all 64 of […]
Santa Rosa County has been added to a wind advisory by the National Weather Service. On Wednesday morning, only the coastal areas of Santa Rosa County were put under the wind advisory, but now the entire county has been added. The path of Hurricane Helene, updated at 4 p.m. CT, still remains far to Santa […]
