Road Closure Due to flooding caused by Tropical Storm Lee’s heavy rains and high surf and sand on the roadways, Gulf Islands National Seashore will temporarily close the Santa Rosa Area including the J. Earle Bowden Way between Pensacola Beach and Navarre Beach on SR 399. Once the storm has passed and the sand is […]
Roger Rowell, who’s been involved in music at Berrydale Baptist Church for 32 years, led the music for the last time Sunday, Aug. 28th . Roger is retiring as music minister to spend more time with his family and to be more available to visit with his growing brood of grandchildren at their various area […]
Jay High Class of 1986 is having their 25th class reunion on Saturday, October 22, 2011 at 4 pm at Pittman’s Pavilion on Pitnic Rd. We hope you and your spouse/guest will join us for our 25th class reunion this year! We’ve chosen an outdoor location, so dress is casual. Pittman’s Pavilion is located at […]
The legacy of Lance Cpl. Travis Michael Nelson will live on through the lives of other young marines and the lives of his neighbors in Bratt, as his family plans to award an annual college scholarship and place a monument in a public park in his honor. LCpl. Nelson, 19, was shot and killed by […]
Governor Rick Scott announced the appointment of Charles “Chuck” Roberts to the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Jack Floyd, from Jay, was seeking this position to help strengthen the voice of Northwest Florida. The Governor selected Roberts, 58, who is from Tallahassee and has been the president of C.W. Roberts Contracting Inc. since 1976. He succeeds Rodney Barreto […]
Santa Rosa County Emergency Management is participating in National Preparedness Month during the month of September, an event founded after 9/11 to remember those lost and to increase preparedness in the U.S. National Preparedness Month, now in its eighth year, is a nationwide, month-long effort hosted by the Ready Campaign and Citizen Corps, encouraging households, businesses and communities […]
The following offices will be closed on Monday, September 5 in observance of Labor Day . Regular hours of operation will resum e on Tuesday, September 6: Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners , including the library system The Central Landfill located on 6337 Da Lisa Road will be open from 7 a.m.- 5p.m. on Monday . The regularly scheduled Monday commission committee meeting has been rescheduled for 9 a.m. on Tuesday, September 6 Santa Rosa […]
Garth Brooks, Lee Greenwood, Willie Nelson, LeAnn Rimes, Barbara Mandrell, Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus – all performers at the Texaco Country Showdown – throughout the past 30 years. Our area’s most talented country music singers competed for a chance to join them, as they performed in the district portion of the finals Saturday night, […]
The 30th Annual Country Showdown is designed to find the most promising country music talent in America and to give these performers a chance to launch their professional music careers. The Farmers’ Opry welcomes the 2011 finalists! Madison Baird Holli Mosley Kerry Kaye Casey Kearney Jessica Strenth Tiffany Turner Travis Lambert Barry Lassiter Shelby Glass […]
Milton, FL -by Joy Tsubooka –At 12:37 p.m., Santa Rosa County Emergency Communications received a call regarding a fire in the 5400 block of Woodland Lane involving a large barn-type structure. The building was used as a personal repair shop for the owner’s racing (dirt track and mud trucks) and work vehicles. East Milton, Bagdad, NAS Whiting, […]
