Many Florida cities that are smaller than Gulf Breeze pay their council members and mayors more, but low salaries for elected municipal officials go with the political turf in Florida’s Panhandle.
When every you have one of those days, don’t ask yourself, “What else can go wrong?” When you ask the universe that question, it will show you. Believe me. It isn’t the end of the world stuff, but really? It made me laugh when everything seemed to be falling and failing around me after I asked that question – to myself mind you. Your mind is a powerful thing – more than I think we even know.
Sage Offutt joked in an interview once that she thought her paddleboard rental business on Navarre Beach would end up be sort of like a lemonade stand.
The strategy of writing off a long overdue debt recently cost Santa Rosa County about $180,000, but it sliced the annual lease fees roughly in half for the owners of 14 Navarre Beach condominium units in the Sugar Dunes complex.
A Gulf Breeze attorney faces a possible 210 year prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to 13 felony counts of bank fraud, embezzlement and money laundering last week according to a press release by the office of the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
Joe Henderson has marched to his own drum as a City of Gulf Breeze council member for the past six years, and he never seemed to mind if he fell a bit out of step.
If Santa Rosa officials accept the 2,718-acre parcel in Pace known as Jubilee as a donation, the county could be dragged into pending litigation over its ownership.
Jason Buttke looks up at the new house under construction next door to his on the 1800 block of Sunrise Drive and wonders where any excess stormwater will drain in the event of heavy rain.