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Sheriff’s Office K9s Raider and Vixen to receive donation of body armor

Written by Staff Reporters on February 15, 2024. Posted in News.

Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office K9s Raider and Vixen will receive bullet and stab protective vests thanks to a charitable donation from non-profit organization Vested Interest in K9s, Inc. The vests will be embroidered with the sentiment “Honoring those who served and sacrificed”.

Brian Out Loud

Written by Brian Lester on February 12, 2024. Posted in Brian Out Loud, Opinion.

It happens every year. Student athletes and their family and friends fill cafeterias, gymnasiums, media centers, and sometimes even offsite locations, to sign national letters of intent.

It happened again last Wednesday, here in Santa Rosa County, throughout the state and across the country.

East Bay K8 students learn about drug dangers with familiar face

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on February 8, 2024. Posted in Education.

In addition to combating drugs in the community through law enforcement, the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office is taking the fight to the elementary school level.

School board looks at new and revised policies

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on February 4, 2024. Posted in Education.

The Santa Rosa County School Board reviewed school district policies for 2024 during their Jan. 16 meeting. The policies pertain to everything from internet safety to school volunteers to the administration of medication. Every policy change was approved.

Flushed! Rudman pulls proposed bill to create utilities authority

Written by Ken Garner on February 3, 2024. Posted in News.

A proposal to create a utilities authority to manage water and sewer services in Santa Rosa County north of the Yellow River is dead, for now.

Gulf Breeze Zoo’s ‘Kenya’ predicts an early spring and a Chiefs Super Bowl win on Giraffe Day

Written by Kaitie Kiger on February 2, 2024. Posted in Community.

An excited crowd gathered Friday morning around Kenya, a 16-year-old reticulated giraffe resident at Gulf Breeze Zoo, to watch her predict the future.

Feb. 2, or Groundhog Day as it’s called everywhere else, will now be referred to as Giraffe Day in Santa Rosa County, according to county commissioner Colton Wright who read an official declaration at the celebration Friday morning.

Remains found in Bagdad identified as missing person, Cameron Belanger

Written by Staff Reporters on January 30, 2024. Posted in News.

The skeletal remains discovered in the woods off the 4100 block of Popcorn Road in Bagdad Jan. 11 have been identified as Cameron Belanger, 25, Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Jan. 30.

Kick-off meeting to be held for Navarre Community Access Road study

Written by Staff Reporters on January 30, 2024. Posted in News.

Santa Rosa County is undergoing a Project Development and Environmental (PD&E) Study to create a Navarre community access road. A public kick-off meeting will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thur., Feb. 15, located at Tiger Point Community Center, 1370 Tiger Park Lane in Gulf Breeze.

Infrastructure, recreation among Eddington’s top priorities in 2024

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on January 29, 2024. Posted in News.

Everyone seems to have New Year’s resolutions, even elected officials.

Santa Rosa County Commissioner Ray Eddington, who represents district four which includes Holley and Navarre, said he is looking forward to 2024 as an important year for expanding and improving south Santa Rosa County’s infrastructure, as well as its recreational opportunities.

“We’re looking (forward) to a good year,” Eddington said.

Brian Out Loud

Written by Brian Lester on January 29, 2024. Posted in Brian Out Loud, Opinion.

When the new high school in the south end of Santa Rosa County opens its doors to students for the first time in 2026, it will be three floors, have 74 classrooms, CTE labs, a gym, a sports field house and athletic fields. It will have the capacity for 1,800 students.

What it won’t have are two things that would have benefitted high school athletics in this area in a big-time way. I’m talking about a swimming pool and a track with a rubberized surface.