Pete Della Ratta, Holley-Navarre Middle School Dean of Students, and five students from Florida joined hundreds of students and advisors from across the nation who traveled to Dallas July 14-17 to participate in the NFL’s Fuel up to Play 60 Summit.

Commissioners are pressed for time. They only have about five weeks left to decide which potential future courthouse site or sites to present to voters on the Nov. 4 general election ballot. Voters will also be asked if they support a one-cent local sales tax increase over a four-year period to fund the proposed new judicial facility.

Gulf Breeze Police Chief Robert Randle admitted July 21 that he jinxed himself when he told a local reporter July 4 than not much happens in the city during the holiday. But July 4, 2014, was different. Randle said that due to the efforts of a local citizen and three police officers, a man wanted in connection to a murder in Alabama was apprehended and taken off the streets.