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Category archives for: Politics/Local Govt.

SRC Treecycle

Message from SRC. 🌲 Live trees are a festive and fragrant holiday decoration for many families during the Christmas holidays, and Santa Rosa County Public Works offers an environmentally friendly option for disposal. Residents who would like to “treecycle” their tree for mulch may drop off their clean Christmas trees in the designated areas listed […]

Early Voting and other important dates…

Important Dates Election Day  Tuesday, November 5, 2024 Registration Closes  Monday, October 7, 2024 Early Voting Begins  Monday, October 21, 2024 Early Voting Ends  Saturday, November 2, 2024

Traffic stop leads to surprise…

A recent traffic stop in Santa Rosa County led to a search due to probable cause. Found in the car was a 9mm handgun, over a pound of marijuana and over 10 pounds of THC edible products, shown in the picture. Authorities are wanting to get the word out due to the close likeness of […]

New School Bus Technology aimed at making stops safer

Santa Rosa is cracking down on drivers who illegally pass school buses by joining forces with the Child Safety Program powered by AngelTrax, a name you can trust (Child Safety Program), an all-in-one automated stop arm violation system—from violation detection to citation through adjudication. The Child Safety Program officially launches today (March 4, 2024) in […]

Forest Stewardship Program

Forest Stewardship is defined as active management of forests and related resources to keep these lands in a productive and healthy condition for present and future generations, and to increase the economic, environmental and social benefits of these lands. Forest Stewards are those landowners who manage their forestlands on a long-term basis by following management objectives […]

Gaetz in Jay

Mike Scott, owner of Scott’s Outdoors in Jay, hosted a Legislative Update with Matt Gaetz. Stands were brought in by the Town of Jay to host the 100 plus constituents that came to hear Representative Gaetz talk about National as well as local issues for around 30 minutes. After that, he took questions from those […]

More Rural Broadband Money Released

Friday-Governor Ron DeSantis announced that another $60 million in funding to spread broadband across rural parts of the state would be given to certain counties in need. This money will support 22 projects in 19 different rural counties. Locally speaking, it will have a huge impact on the most northern areas of Santa Rosa County. […]

Santa Rosa Local Technology Planning Team Holds Meeting

Tuesday-The Santa Rosa Local Technology Planning Team held a meeting at the Santa Rosa County Extension office in Milton. Kyle Holley, Santa Rosa County liason, who is tasked with heading up the rural broadband roll out across Santa Rosa County welcomed Sean Lewis, Chief of State Broadband Initiatives at the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity. […]

Rowell Announces Run For County Commissioner

Florida Looks to Block Foreign Power Land Grabs

Tallahassee-Governor Ron Desantis spoke today at the Florida State Capital about the potential dangers of the Chinese Communist Party, among other foreign powers, from buying strategic land (mainly agricultural) throughout the country. “Now we see the CCP trying to make strategic land purchases across the U.S. and our message in Florida is very simple…we will […]