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Chambers cancel Aug. 9 and 10 candidate forums

Written by Staff Reporters on August 4, 2022. Posted in News.

Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce and the Gulf Breeze Area Chamber of Commerce have canceled the in-person Santa Rosa County Candidates Forum on Tues., Aug. 9 and Wed., Aug. 10 due to a scheduling conflict.

Both chambers remain committed to educating residents on public issues and the electoral process. They plan to continue to take questions from the public and deliver them to the candidates.

Commission hopes to get answers from Holley Navarre Water System

Written by Ken Garner on August 4, 2022. Posted in News.

The Santa Rosa County Commission has no authority over Holley Navarre Water System. It does, however, get to pick its business partners.

“I don’t like what’s going on down there. My hands are tied to a degree; however, we are working with them in a joint effort on the spray field,” Commission Chairman Bob Cole said at Thursday’s regular commission meeting. “To me, that opens a door for us to have some knowledge of what’s going on with that organization as a board of county commissioners. I want to know who I’m working with, whoever I’m partnering with.”

Commissioners to oppose proposed Interstate 10 toll in Mobile, Ala.

Written by Ken Garner on August 4, 2022. Posted in News.

Santa Rosa County Commissioner Colten Wright said last week that it’s not fair to levy a toll on motorists to help pay for the $2.7-billion Interstate 10 Mobile River Bridge and Bayway project.

“I personally take great issue with putting a toll on … Interstate 10 coming into Escambia County and Santa Rosa County,” Wright told the commission at its regular meeting July 28 in Milton.

Tractor Supply to open in September

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on August 4, 2022. Posted in Business, News.

There are many developments going up in Navarre and the south end of the county. From new stores to new apartments and a water system project years in the making Navarre is expanding. One of the projects with the most impact is the Eglin RIBs Project. Holley-Navarre Water System and Santa Rosa County are working together on the project, which will carry treated wastewater, or effluent, to a site on Eglin.

School board navigates busing changes

Written by Ken Garner on August 2, 2022. Posted in News.

The Santa Rosa County School District announced in June that students could have to walk farther to catch the bus beginning this fall.

Last week, it mailed almost 18,000 postcards telling parents the district’s transportation plans for their children.

Chambers cancel Aug. 9 and 10 candidate forums

Written by Staff Reporters on July 28, 2022. Posted in News.

According to a press release announcing the cancelation, the chambers remain committed to educating residents on public issues and the electoral process. The chambers plan to continue to take questions from the public and deliver them to the candidates.

Spawning success saves Shoal bass

Written by Brian Lester on July 28, 2022. Posted in Community.

Tucked away in rural Santa Rosa County within the Blackwater River Forest sits an operation that has been critical to recovery efforts of the Chipola River Shoal Bass population.

In existence for 80 years, the nearly 600-acre Blackwater Fisheries Research and Development Center in Holt has been at the center of helping to revive a species of fish that was devastated by Hurricane Michael in October of 2018.

School district names Navarre’s Windfelder principal of year

Written by Staff Reporters on July 26, 2022. Posted in Education.

Navarre High School Principal Kasie Windfelder was named the Santa Rosa County District Schools’ High School Principal of the Year for 2022-2023 at a meeting of school administrators on July 26.

Navarre High School responded to the recognition on their Facebook page, “this honor is well-deserved, and we are endlessly thankful for how she tirelessly serves our school community every day.”

Commissioners frustrated by booming bear population

Written by Ken Garner on July 26, 2022. Posted in News.

The problem is becoming…unbearable.

“I’m quite tired of hearing FWC tell you as a citizen or me as a citizen that you’ve got to rattle pans, or put up fences, or put your garbage out after a certain time or pay for an expensive bear can” to keep Florida black bears from snooping around people’s homes, Santa Rosa County Commission Chairman Bob Cole said Monday.

Board nixes higher density for waterfront development

Written by Ken Garner on July 19, 2022. Posted in News.

A developer wants more potential commercial space on a 23-acre parcel between U.S. Highway 98 and Santa Rosa Sound in Navarre without giving up home sites.

“The question for me is, in order to accommodate two more acres of (highway commercial district use), do we go forward with this?” Santa Rosa County Zoning Board member Ed Carson asked at the board’s July 14 meeting.