Top 10 stories of 2016
Dredging done
About 1.3 million cubic yards of sand was dredged from the Gulf and piped onto the Navarre Beach shoreline.Search Results for “navarre press”
Jubilee land deal put on hold
Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in News.
Amid an ownership dispute over the 2,718-acre Pace-area property known as Jubilee, Santa Rosa commissioners abruptly cancelled a special hearing to consider accepting it as a donation.
Gulf Breeze proudly trails the pack in council pay
Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in News.
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.
Out and About
Written by Sandi Kemp on . Posted in Opinion, Out and About.
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.
Few elections in The Satisfied City
Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in Community.
Even the Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger probably can’t get satisfaction so complete as that long expressed by the City of Gulf Breeze electorate.
Offutt surprised by recognition from governor
Written by Brian Lester on . Posted in Community.
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.
Time line of the missing Sugar Dunes lease fees
Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in News.
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.
Gulf Breeze attorney faces 210 year sentence
Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in Crime, News.
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.
The conspicuous councilman bows out
Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in Community.
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.
Jubilee land claims could cost county
Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in News.
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.