The heavy thunderstorms that rolled through the area last week left a disaster in its wake when a lightning strike sparked a fire at Lynette Bramlett’s home in the Whisper Bay subdivision last Tuesday. Bramlett and her 24-year-old son were both at work when the fire ignited her home on Whisper Bay Boulevard. Thankfully, she said, a neighbor had the […]

Last October, Robby Rushing’s family got the news that every parent dreads: their 10 year old son had cancer. By December, the diagnosis was refined to be Desmoplastic Plastic Small Round Cell Tumor, a rare sarcoma affecting fewer than 75 people per year worldwide. Robby underwent chemotherapy treatments from November to April and on May 4, he will travel to […]

Gulf Breeze Will Do, the all-female group that formed this year to make a difference in the Gulf Breeze/Pensacola Beach community, awarded nearly $25,000 in their first grant cycle. The group’s 229 founding members gathered at Tiger Point Golf Club Sunday, April 19 where they got to vote on the finalists in four categories. A list of their grant summaries […]

Three Gulf Breeze area students earned “one heck of an honor” after it was announced they were National Merit Scholarship Winners for 2015. Those words came from Gulf Breeze High School Principal Jason Weeks after finding out that one of his students and two other area students earned a spot as National Merit Scholarship winners. The news rolled out of […]

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is attempting to move forward with approving measures to help cut back on nuisances that have been plaguing residents across the state. Those nuisances are Florida Black Bears, which have grown in numbers over the last several decades. Earlier this year, FWC officials eyed the possibility of opening up a seven-day bear hunting […]