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Oil spill funds stormwater project

Written by Staff Reporters on July 3, 2014. Posted in News.

A $1.8 million stormwater project that is designed to make Gulf Breeze neighborhoods less vulnerable to floods started with a ceremonial groundbreaking June 25 in Williamsburg Park. The project is being funded from a settlement between the US Department of Justice and MOEX Offshore, one of the owners of the offshore oil rig that exploded, creating the Deepwater Horizon spill.

Fireworks aren’t child’s play

Written by Staff Reporters on July 3, 2014. Posted in News.

The Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) reported that children under the age of five had the highest rate for fireworks related injuries in 2013. According to CPSC, past reports indicate that consumers sometimes feel comfortable handing off to children fireworks devices perceived to be less powerful, such as sparklers and bottle rockets. In 2013, sparklers and rockets accounted for more than 40 percent of all estimated injuries.

Businesses face permitting issues

Written by Staff Reporters on June 26, 2014. Posted in News.

Two businesses operating in the Navarre area along Highway 98 are working through separate permitting processes for outdoor amusements on land and in the water. According to regulators, neither business had secured the necessary permits to begin operating the outdoor amusements.

Ducks, guns and golf

Written by Staff Reporters on June 26, 2014. Posted in Sports.

A ceremonial shotgun start kicked off the 2014 Ducks Unlimited charity golf tournament June 21. Seventy-two golfers lined up for a chance to win Stoeger shotguns among other prizes.

New chick signs

Written by Staff Reporters on June 26, 2014. Posted in News.

Personnel from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) posted four, bright yellow signs on the Navarre Beach Causeway Bridge Friday hoping that they will help slow traffic passing through a shorebird nesting area. The signs are the latest effort to protect the shorebirds and their chicks that are not yet able to fly.

Out and About

Written by Sandi Kemp on June 26, 2014. Posted in Opinion, Out and About.

Wil Pergande from the Gulf Breeze Sertoma Club stopped by the office to tell us about the 24th Annual Family Fishing Rodeo that is being held Saturday and Sunday at Shoreline Park in Gulf Breeze. Proceeds from the tournament benefit a host of community organizations that help children and their families. There is a really impressive list of recipients on their website, familyfishingrodeo.com. To get the details of the event, look for their ad in this week’s issue on Page 8C.

Two Milton FDOT projects fast tracked

Written by Staff Reporters on June 26, 2014. Posted in Community.

Roughly $80 million in Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) projects are being added to or advanced in the 2015-2019 Transportation Improvement Plan. The amendments were approved at the June 11 Florida-Alabama Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) meeting in Pensacola, which was attended by about 50 people.

Combined training good but safety concerns remain

Written by Staff Reporters on June 26, 2014. Posted in Editorial, Opinion.

Navarre Beach lifeguards and Navarre Beach firefighters conducted their first, official joint training exercise of the season June 21. Training between the two groups is conducted several times annually but this was the first official training since the drowning of a tourist from Louisiana in late May. The 19-year-old entered the water on a red flag day west of the Navarre Beach Fishing Pier, where lifeguards are not stationed, and unfortunately was caught up in a rip tide.

Florida, local unemployment rates up

Written by Staff Reporters on June 26, 2014. Posted in Business.

All area counties, as well as the State of Florida experienced increases in their unemployment rates from April to May 2014. Despite the increases, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa and Walton counties all sported jobless rates lower than the state and national averages, while Escambia County was only slightly higher.

Turtle nests on Navarre Beach

Written by Staff Reporters on June 26, 2014. Posted in Beach.

What a difference a few days can make. Volunteers had made their 5:30 a.m. trek along Navarre Beach since May 1 looking for sea turtle nests, and for 49 days they found none. However, three loggerhead turtle nests have now been discovered between June 19 and 23.