The Santa Rosa County Commissioners at their meeting March 13 approved a resolution recognizing March as American Red Cross Month. America Red Cross of Northwest Florida executive Jerry Kindle attended the meeting.
Currently the only regular meetings held during evening hours by the Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners are monthly zoning board meetings. Local Tea Party leader Sam Mullins hopes to change that, and board Chairman Jim Melvin is agreeable to give it a try.
It’s a long way from being a young American girl in Mill Hall, Pa., to becoming a “proper Spanish lady” in the Dominican Republic, but Mary Marrero Wallen did it.
Just when you thought it wouldn’t happen…foundation plans for the new hotel to be constructed on Navarre Beach have been submitted to the county. Doster Construction Company is the contractor of record.
Santa Rosa County Clerk of Court and Comptroller Donald Spencer made good on his campaign promise to put county financial information online. Spencer’s site contains not only audited financial statements but also a monthly investment report.
The Citizens to Incorporate Navarre Political Action Committee is seeking signatures in an effort to show Santa Rosa County commissioners enough support exists to place a nonbinding straw poll on the Aug. 26 primary election ballot. Incorporation supporters approached the commissioners in 2012 making the same request but were turned down.
A man posing as a door-to-door salesman robbed a residence on Forester Road Sunday night, according to a Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office offense report. The man was described as a white male possibly in his 20s, 5’10 to 6-feet-tall with brown hair and an unshaven scruffy look.
Anti-paddling activist James McNulty seems to have succeeded in his effort to get corporal punishment banned as a form of punishment in Santa Rosa County public schools after alleging possible violations of state statutes related to the policy and public meeting notices.
The Navarre Krewe of Jesters Mardi Gras Parade is this Saturday. Make sure you are on the island before noon because it will be hard to get over the bridge after noon. In years past, they opened up both lanes of the bridge for cars to use to get off of the island, so be prepared for delays. This year’s parade is being touted as larger than ever and there are more than 25% more parade entries than last year. The forecast is currently calling for only a slight chance of rain – but to date – there hasn’t been any rain in the history of this parade.
A British band from Liverpool created a firestorm when they landed in New York Feb. 7, 1964 and two days later made their first U.S. television appearance performing live on The Ed Sullivan Show. A record-setting 73 million people were watching as “Beatlemania” was born in the U.S. Fifty years later, The Beatles are one of the most iconic best-selling bands in music history.
