In a special election yesterday Santa Rosa County voters defeated a half-cent sales tax increase with about 67% of voters rejecting the increase. The proposed penny tax would have replaced the half-cent sales tax that voters last approved in 2016, raising the sales tax from 7% to 7.5%. In 2016 voters approved a half-cent sales…… MORE
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ELECTRIC SCOOTERS ON PENSACOLA BEACH
The Santa Rosa Island Authority is considering an ordinance to restrict rentals of electronic scooters on Pensacola Beach. Under the proposed ordinance, scooters would be banned from beach’s commercial corridor and limited to side roads. Blue Duck scooters of San Antonio will soon be operating a scooter rental business in downtown in Pensacola, but said…… MORE
CHILD NEGLECT ARREST
Pensacola Police say a 21-year-old Milton man has been arrested after his 1-year-old son was found unconscious in a car parked with its engine running near Cordova Mall yesterday. Officer Mike Wood, Department spokesman, said officers were called to the mall around 3 p.m. because a child had been left inside a running car with…… MORE
PERDIDO KEY TRAFFIC FATALITY
The Florida Highway Patrol said one person died yesterday afternoon in a two-vehicle traffic crash on Perdido Key. Troopers say it occurred shortly after 3 p.m. at the intersection of Perdido Key Drive and Lafitte Reef. FHP spokesman Lieutenant Robert Cannon said the person died after suffering cardiac arrest. The wreck remains under investigation.… MORE
SANTA ROSA COUNTY WILDFIRE CONTAINED
After two days the Florida Forest Service’s Blackwater Forestry Center says a wildfire in Midway in Santa Rosa County that scorched about three acres is 100% contained. The Forest Service says it appears the fire was caused by human activity. Firefighters from the Forest Service and local fire departments responded to the fire early Sunday…… MORE
OKALOOSA COUNTY NARCOTICS ARREST
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office says a 71-year-old Fort Walton Beach man, wanted on a narcotics warrant, tried to escape from a deputy by disguising himself as a doctor. A deputy made a traffic stop on James “Poppa” Jenkins, Jr. in Crestview and arrested him on an active warrant for selling opiates within 1,000 feet…… MORE
COUNTY COMMISSIONER SUED
Escambia County Commissioner Doug Underhill is being sued by David Bear, vice president of The Lewis Bear Company. In his lawsuit Bear says the commissioner failed to fulfill several public records requests related to his Facebook accounts. The lawsuit includes Escambia County as a defendant, alleging the county failed to respond to the second and…… MORE
SCHOOL DISTRICT POLICY CHANGES
The Santa Rosa County School District taking steps to prohibit inappropriate student grade changes in schools. School Superintendent Tim Wryosdick (“Roz-Dick”) said a multi-step grade change procedure will be implemented and a common grade change form will be issued for all schools. The changes come after a grade-change scandal at Gulf Breeze High School last…… MORE
EGLIN AFB NIGHTTIME TRAINING FLIGHTS
The Air Force says over the next several weeks residents on Eglin Air Force Base and surrounding areas may hear aircraft noises at night as F-22’s from the 43rd Fighter Squadron conduct nightly flying training operations. Aircraft will take off between 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. and will return at 10:30 p.m. Eglin says if winds…… MORE
SANTA ROSA COUNTY LAND DONATION
The Tallahassee-based Trust for Public Lands will give Santa Rosa County 5-acres of sound-side land on Navarre Beach. The donation – valued at two million dollars – comes with stipulations that the land can only be used for park and conservation purposes and can never be developed, except for a pavilion, kayak launch or other…… MORE
