By the numbers: County unemployment rates
The state released a report Monday showing that Florida’s unemployment rate declined in January to 4.8 percent. Here are county-by-county rates:
— Miami-Dade County: 8.1 percent
— Osceola County: 7.0 percent
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County strategic planning underway, citizens to be involved
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The County Commissioners met on Feb. 23 to try and map a road forward for the County for the years to come.
County leases mass vaccination site
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The Santa Rosa County Board has leased the former Bealls store at 6209 Highway 90 West in Milton’s Parkmore Plaza to become a mass
vaccination site.
County administrator Dan Schebler signed the paperwork last week under the COVID-19 Local State of Emergency that’s under effect. Commissioners formally supported the action Thursday.
Personal mulch pile becomes county dilemma
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One person’s very large mulch pile is a next-door neighbor’s rat- and termite-infested heap of danger.
Self-inserted into the dispute between adjacent property owners was the Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners second-guessing a code violation citation issued by the county Code Enforcement Department.
Holley by the Sea fines county $1,000 for yard violations
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It has been almost two years since Santa Rosa County bought a house in Holley by the Sea. Officials didn’t set out to buy the house.
The county bought the property for $275,000 because it was prone to flooding.
Editorial: Eight words that changed the county
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Eight words and at least two months of argument that revealed political fissures, real or imagined, between the north and south ends of Santa Rosa County and pitted science against business might have come to an end.
It is anticipated that the county commission will vote 5-0 during a Feb. 25, 2021 meeting to drop a proposed amendment to the Comprehensive Plan that would have allowed more or new borrow pit mining above a protected drinking water reservoir that serves tens of thousands of people.
County delays borrow pit vote
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Santa Rosa County commissioners will not vote Feb. 25 on whether to repeal key wellfield protections as anticipated. Instead, county staff discussed the matter to the board at the Feb. 9 work session.
Shawn Ward, the county planning and zoning director, confirmed the agenda change Thursday.
County delays borrow pit vote
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Santa Rosa County commissioners will not vote Feb. 25 on whether to repeal key wellfield protections as anticipated. Instead, county staff will bring the matter to the board at the Feb. 9 work session to ask for further direction.
County’s historical gem in funding crisis
Written by Wendy Victora Rudman on . Posted in Community.
It’s been more than two years since then-Governor Rick Scott vetoed archeological funding that helped keep Arcadia Mill running.
Since then, it’s been a struggle.
By the numbers: County unemployment rates
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The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity on Friday released a December unemployment report. Here are the county-by-county unemployment rates:
— Osceola County: 8.7 percent
— Miami-Dade County: 7.3 percent