Every hotel and motel room in Santa Rosa County would have to be filled for an entire week in April by Tough Mudder enthusiasts to achieve the economic impact of the two-day event as estimated in a request for state funding filed by the Tourist Development Office.

Shortly after the training crash of a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter into the waters of the Navarre sound on March 10, the Leadership Santa Rosa Class 29 began planning a memorial project in memory of the 11 service members killed.  The Navarre Black Hawk Memorial is projected to cost nearly $100,000 and will be placed to the left of the large pavilion in Navarre Park.

For the third time in recent months Santa Rosa County and the City of Gulf Breeze are at odds, this time over a share of tourist development funds that exceed $100,000 annually.

The state grant funding sought by Santa Rosa County to promote Tough Mudder Inc.’s military-style endurance event in April will be limited to about one-third of the requested $30,000.

The overthrow of local authority to limit fracking, the controversial method of drilling for oil and natural gas after injecting chemicals underground to fracture rock formations, is being supported by Northwest Florida legislators.