By the numbers: COVID-19 vaccinations by county
Through Tuesday, Florida totaled 1,122,405 COVID-19 vaccinations. Here is a breakdown of vaccinations by the recipients’ counties of residence:
— Miami-Dade; 130,156
— Palm Beach: 100,575
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County juggling business interest, funding for growth
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Santa Rosa County Commissioners walk a razor’s edge when it comes to impact fees.
On one side loom growing infrastructure needs as the population continues to climb.
Guest Editorial: The answer to Santa Rosa’s water crisis
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Over the past several months, Santa Rosa’s politics have been inflamed by heated debates concerning the county’s water supply.
The arguments largely concern local developers and their practice of digging sand. The practice leaves large holes or “borrow pits” that many experts say are hazardous to our underlying water sources.
Adams Sanitation owner Nathan Boyles discusses first week in county
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Adams Sanitation owner Nathan Boyles answers a few questions about his company’s first week of operation in Santa Rosa County. Adams started garbage collection in northern SRC Jan. 1, joining Waste Pro in offering services there.
The county approved Adams moving into the county at its Nov. 24 commission meeting.
Wendy Victora Rudman: County does good work with vaccines
Written by Wendy Victora Rudman on . Posted in Opinion, Wise Words.
In the four months since I’ve been editor of the Navarre Press, Santa Rosa County and I have been courting each other. As a 20-plus year resident of Okaloosa and an occasional visitor to Santa Rosa, we were more like good acquaintances than close friends.
By the numbers: adult ICU beds available by county
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As hospitals treat thousands of COVID-19 patients, the state Agency for Health Care Administration updates information about available intensive-care unit beds. As of about 6 p.m. Monday, 19.7 percent of adult intensive-care unit beds statewide were available, but numbers varied by county. Here were county-by-county percentages of available adult ICU beds as of Monday:
— Hendry County: 100 percent
— Martin County: 65.2 percent
New schools on the way for Santa Rosa
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Santa Rosa County schools are bursting at the seams, and in 2021, the district is making moves to solve that problem with two new kindergarten through eighth grade schools.
Water System plans to protest county’s decision
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Portraying proposed changes to the Santa Rosa County comprehensive land-use plan as a significant threat to potable water safety and supply, the Holley-Navarre Water System board of directors decided at their December monthly meeting to intensify the utility’s opposition campaign.
]The proposed land-use amendment would permit borrow pit expansion, which was requested by some pit owners.
Without public notice, county splits with attorney
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County Attorney Roy Andrews sat quietly at the dais just a few feet from Santa Rosa County’s commissioners as they publicly discussed whether or not to fire him.
COVID-19 vaccine delayed for Santa Rosa
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Roughly 40 million COVID-19 vaccines will be rolled out this month, but Santa Rosa County in not likely to see any of them, according to Santa Rosa Department of Health administrator Sandra Park-O’Hara.