For nearly three years, Christina Toms studied the behavior of bottlenose dolphins in local waters. She and other team members crossed back and forth across waterways including the Santa Rosa Sound, East Bay, Escambia Bay and Blackwater Bay.
My first achievement for the new year was to get COVID. It first made its presence known with a scratchy throat on Tuesday of that first week.
The next morning, it unpacked its bags for a lengthy stay gifting me with what felt like a deluxe cold, the premium version with all the accessories: cough, congestion, headache, fever. I assumed it was only a bad cold.
Each year, students from the Navarre Beach Marine Science Station take a working/educational field trip to Key Largo at the Coral Restoration Foundation (more info at https://www.coralrestoration.org/)!
First Judicial Circuit Court of Florida Judge Darlene F. Dickey ruled that the Santa Rosa Board of County Commissioners must hold a quasi-judicial hearing for Adams Sanitation after it was canceled.
A hearing was scheduled between the trash hauling company and the commissioners for Sept. 9, 2021, for Adams to appeal the commissioners’ decision to deny their trash collection permit.
Adaptive Physical Education (PE) teacher Zachary (Zach) Butler is Santa Rosa School District’s Teacher of the Year. Butler teaches PE to Exceptional Student Education (ESE) students in the south-end schools, is loved by many and has a heart for special needs students.
As soon as he was announced by Superintendent Karen Barber in the Oriole Beach Elementary School library Friday morning, he gave credit to his team that helps him every day.
With more projects and people coming to the City of Milton, the commissioners approved without objection Thursday to reallocate Santa Rosa’s reserved water capacity for other uses.
A Panama City was arrested in Santa Rosa County after we e k s – l ong obscene communications he allegedly had with a person he thought was a 13-year-old girl. He was on his way to meet the supposed 13-year-old in a Pensacola park, according to the Pensacola Police Department.
William Edward White, 42, was arrested and charged with using a twoway communication device to facilitate a felony, using a computer to seduce or solicit a child and misrepresenting his age, and traveling to meet after using a computer to lure a child.
Saying that the “federal government is not going to come through” on a plan to distribute at-home coronavirus tests, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday said the state is honing its own strategy to send tests to vulnerable Floridians.