After a nearly seven-hour meeting Oct. 12, the Santa Rosa County School Board is still waiting to approve the health insurance program for district employees. The current plan expires Dec. 31.
Four firms are vying to study whether Santa Rosa County should build an aquatic center – or centers – to serve residents, swim clubs and high school teams.
When House Bill 1 passed the Florida Legislature and was signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis earlier this year, the expectation was that come the beginning of the 2023-2024 school year, families would have expanded school choice access through an updated school voucher system, which notably includes an education savings account (ESA) for every Florida student.
A Santa Rosa County gun store owner is alleging the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) harassed him and his store manager after criticizing the agency in the past.
Chris Smith, the owner of Gulf Coast Gun in Milton, says the ATF attempted to audit him for a license he had yet to use after he spoke out against ATF policies at a congressional field hearing held June 26 at the Okaloosa County Administrative Complex in Shalimar.
Congratulations on football coach Jay Walls’ 200th win at Navarre High School! It was an exciting district win over Tate High School with a final score of 45-42.
In the last seconds of the game, Tate was attempting a field goal to tie the game and take it into overtime, but Raider Tyrell Marshall blocked it and the celebration was on.
This summer, a restaurant on Navarre Beach has faced multiple code violations for its use of flags on county right of way. Santa Rosa County Code Enforcement has given Andy D’s, owned by Andrew DeMartin, two citations since the beginning of July.
There are some axioms that seem to hold true. If you wash your car, it will rain. If your food is running behind at the restaurant, just go to the bathroom and when you come back it will be waiting on you, and if you run a headline about how the dry weather is causing brush fires, it will rain for three days straight after it hits the newsstands.
With Santa Rosa County schools back in session, there is more school bus traffic on the road. Around 16,000 students are being transported daily across 174 bus routes across the district.
If you think it’s been hot this summer, imagine what you’d feel like if you were covered in fur.
This August in Milton, where the county animal shelter is located, the temperature has hovered in the high 80s and 90s. Santa Rosa County Animal Services’ dog population, of which they have about 86 dogs, has had to deal with those temperatures in the animal shelter, which despite being inside, isn’t closed in.
SRCAS has worked hard to keep the dogs in relative comfort, but it has been tough sledding, especially in August. That’s when a local A/C company stepped in to help.
