The power of celebrity
The word “boo” has been causing quite a stir lately, and it has nothing to do with Halloween, which is still more than three months away.
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Switch to payroll cards not paying off for employees
Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in Business.
Lowe’s, Sonic Drive-In, Walmart and a number of other big-name corporations are following the trend of offering payroll cards, a prepaid card used as an alternative to a paycheck. However, according to local employees who have experience using the cards, the fees associated with them outweigh any convenience. For this reason, the fairness of their use has been examined nationally in recent months.
RESTORE Council to set funding criteria
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Santa Rosa’s RESTORE Council is trying to determine how to establish evaluation criteria to review projects submitted to the county for funding via RESTORE Act dollars. So far, 19 proposed projects have been submitted for consideration. For a complete list of proposed projects, visit our website at http://www.navarrepress.com/news/13/6333-nineteen-projects-vie-for-restore-act-funds. At the July 8 RESTORE Council meeting, Commissioner Lane Lynchard, who serves as chairman of the council, pointed out that just three of the submitted projects add up to roughly $130 million, underscoring the need for the county to develop evaluation criteria to make funding decisions. “We’re going to have to really work and prioritize the funding that we get,” said Lynchard.
Out and About
Written by Sandi Kemp on . Posted in Opinion, Out and About.
Special Note: We hope that you are looking at your paper on July 3, because that was our plan until press night when we received a phone call that we didn’t expect. We print our paper in Panama City and they were hit by lightning Friday night that disabled their printing press. They had been printing their own paper at an alternative location but didn’t make arrangements for us. I’m sure they thought they would be up and running by Monday night. Update: We just received the dreaded call. The press didn’t work when they turned it on. The words they used were, “It blew up.” We were told they would be looking for a place for us to print…which we would have done first thing Monday morning had we known.
Out and About
Written by Sandi Kemp on . Posted in Opinion, Out and About.
Juana’s is having their 24th Anniversary Party on Monday evening, July 1. You can “read all about it” on C8.
TDC committee discusses end to annual tour funding
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A decade ago the Santa Rosa County Tourist Development Council (TDC) started the annual Beaches to Woodlands Tour in an effort to create a “shoulder” season to expand tourism past the area’s traditional ending marker, Labor Day. The event started out featuring events along a countywide route during a couple of weekends each October but gradually became a festival lasting the entire month, highlighting Santa Rosa’s arts & culture, heritage and outdoor venues.
Sunshine law hampers RESTORE Act in Florida
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Four states impacted by the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill have already received a draft of the much anticipated RESTORE Act implementation regulations from the U.S. Department of Treasury. Santa Rosa is not among those, and fingers are being pointed at the state’s open government laws.
Florida’s ethanol mandate repealed
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A repeal on the state’s ethanol mandate requiring gas stations to sell blended fuel, or gasoline that is mixed with enthanol, went into effect this week — meaning local stations are now able to sell pure gasoline if they choose.
Five Santa Rosa sites in Gulf Power program
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Owners of five Santa Rosa properties signed up to participate in Gulf Power’s site certification program by the May 3 deadline imposed by the utility. The goal of the new program, which officially kicked off in April, is to help recruit large industry to the area by certifying there are project-ready sites available.
Out and About
Written by Sandi Kemp on . Posted in Opinion, Out and About.
Memorial Day weekend was crazy on Navarre Beach. I heard horror stories of how it took two-and-a-half hours to get off of the beach. I also heard the TDC used to have police offers during Memorial Day weekend to help alleviate traffic and the county attorney said something about it being “illegal” to have hired cops. So…I guess more needs to be done – or looked into. I’m glad we have so much traffic because that means commerce is happening. As a resident of Navarre, I just know better than to go to the beach even though I really wanted to go take pictures.